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Landlords need to follow certain procedures when evicting tenants - find out about eviction notices, harassment and illegal evictions, and going to court.

• Rules your landlord must follow

  Your landlord must follow strict procedures if they need you to leave…

• Accelerated possession

  Landlords can sometimes evict tenants using ‘accelerated possession’. This…

• Eviction court hearings

  If your landlord goes to court to evict you, there will be a ‘possession…

• Eviction notices

  If you do not leave your home by the date given in a possession order,…

• Harassment and illegal evictions

  It is a crime for your landlord to harass you or try to remove you from a…

Find out about buying a home through shared ownership. Read about who can apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares and repairing and selling your home.

• How shared ownership works

  You can buy a home through the shared ownership scheme if you cannot…

• Who can apply

  You can buy a home through shared ownership if both of the following are…

• Costs

  You’ll need to plan for all the costs when buying a home. When you’ve…

• Paying rent

  For a shared ownership home, you need to pay rent to your landlord for the…

• Apply

  There are 4 steps to apply for a shared ownership home. 1. Check if you…

• Finding a shared ownership home

  There are several places where you can search for shared ownership homes…

• Repairs and home improvements

  You will need to pay for repairs and maintenance no matter what share you…

• Buying more shares ('staircasing')

  You can buy more shares in your home after you become the owner. This is…

• Selling your home

  You can sell your shared ownership home at any time. If you own 100% of…

• Renting out all or part of your home (subletting)

  You can normally rent out (sublet) a room in the home, but you must live…

• Help and advice

  You can get free advice about how to buy a shared ownership home or…

Park (mobile) home owner rights and responsibilities - fees and repairs, selling or giving away a home and residents' associations, settling disputes

• Your rights and obligations

  Your rights and obligations are listed in a written agreement with the…

• Renting a park home

  You have a rent contract if you pay rent to a landlord. It does not have…

• Charges

  Pitch fee You have to pay a ‘pitch fee’ to the park owner to rent the land…

• Selling or giving away a park home

  Selling The park owner gets up to 10% of the selling price (known as a…

• Park repairs and improvements

  Park owners are responsible for: keeping common areas (like shared paths)…

• Residents’ associations

  You can set up a ‘qualifying’ residents’ association to represent home…

• Settling disputes

  If you have a dispute with the park owner that you cannot work out, you…

Buy your rented home through the Right to Shared Ownership scheme: who can apply, how to apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares, repairing and selling your home.

How the First Homes scheme works, who is eligible, how to apply and the rules for managing a First Homes property after you buy one.

How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.

Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants

Renting a room in your home out - Rent a Room Scheme, types of tenancy or licence, rent, bills, tax and ending a letting

When someone who owns a house or land passes away, you may need to update their property records.

• Updated: 9 May 2025

How you can add, remove or replace one or more homeowners, with a process known as a Transfer of Equity.

• Updated: 4 February 2022