Social homebuy
Social Homebuy is a new government scheme funded by the Housing Corporation which allows tenants to get a foot on the property ladder by buying part of their current home. Tenants continue to pay rent on the remainder of the property.
There is a maximum discount of £16,000, depending on how much of your home you purchase.
The scheme is only available on the following estates:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Camden (Herbrand Street)
- Enfield (Edmonton)
- Greenwich (Greenwich and Devonshire Drive)
- Haringey (Clyde Road)
- Harrow
- Hammersmith and Fulham (Cleverly, Greyhound Mansions, Hammersmith Estate)
- Hillingdon (Hillingdon, Yeading)
- Islington (Palmer Estate)
- Lambeth (Peabody Hill, Rosendale Road, Cranworth Gardens, Langlet Mansions)
- Lewisham (Vanguard)
- Southwark (Bricklayers, Camberwell, Marshalsea, Pilton Place, Walworth)
- Tower Hamlets (Carlton)
- Wandsworth (Shaftesbury Estate, Parktown)
- Westminster (Bowmans buildings, Buckingham Chambers, Greencoat Mansions, Hanson Square, Vauxhall)
For further information and an application form, contact the sales and marketing team.
View the social homebuy brochure (pdf, 632KB).
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