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People with a long-term disability looking to buy a suitable home on the open market may be able to do so using the HOLD shared ownership scheme.
Includes buying and selling your home, home ownership schemes, mortgages and compensation
How to buy a home: preparing to buy, deciding on a home, making offers, conveyancing, paying Stamp Duty Land Tax and making complaints.
Buying a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take longer…
When you decide you want to buy a home, you may need to get a mortgage to…
There are different ways to own a property. Leasehold and freehold…
Before you make an offer, check: what the property is worth the number of…
Once the offer is accepted, the seller is responsible for drawing up a…
You may need to pay: Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) when you buy a home in…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
How you can add, remove or replace one or more homeowners, with a process known as a Transfer of Equity.
Apply for compensation if you own property near the proposed High Speed 2 route, Phase 1 or 2 - what you can claim for, eligibility, how to apply
Help to Buy and affordable home ownership schemes to help first-time buyers and home movers - equity loan, ISA, shared ownership
The scheme enables eligible households to purchase a leasehold interest (‘share’) in their current social home on similar terms and at a similar cost to if they had purchased their Grenfell home through the statutory Right to Buy scheme.
People living on freehold estates to be handed more power to tackle unreasonable charges for upkeep of shared areas
Information on freehold estates which are private and mixed tenure estates where shared areas are not owned or looked after by the local council.
How to prepare for a flood: who to contact, how to protect your property, get insurance.
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