Affordable Housing - A shared ownership guide to buying
Affordable Housing - schemes, shared ownership
We are a housing association approved panel member

Right to Aquire

Are you eligible?

You may be if you:

  • are a secure or assured tenant
  • have been a public sector tenant for at least two years or five years if you became a public sector tenant after 18 January 2005

And you live in:

  • a qualifying property
  • a property that was built or acquired by a housing association, both charitable and non-charitable, with public funds from 01 April 1997 onwards
  • a property that was transferred from a local authority to a housing association after 1 April 1997

You may be classified as a public sector tenant if you have previously lived in properties provided by your local authority, the Armed services, fire service or police authority.

You will not be eligible if

  • you are a council tenant
  • the courts have issued a possession order for you to leave your home
  • you are undergoing bankruptcy proceedings
  • you live in housing specially provided for older people and (in certain cases) disabled people

Council tenants may have access to discounts on buying their property through the ‘Right to Buy scheme’.