Right to acquire
The Right to Acquire scheme gives eligible tenants of registered social landlords such as SBHA the right to buy their property from their landlord at a discount.
Are you eligible?
You may be if you are a secure or assured tenant and 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.
You must also 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 or a property that was transferred from a local authority to a housing association after 01 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 or you live in housing specially provided for older people and (in certain cases) disabled people.
Please contact your neighbourhood officer for more advice. They will be able to give you an application form and they will make a decision about whether you qualify for the Right to Acquire for your current property or an alternative property.
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