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The ten most recent manuals, leaflets and booklets published on the housing site.

• Your right to buy your home: A guide

  A guide for tenants of councils, new towns and registered social landlords including housing associations looking to buy their home under the Right to Buy scheme.

  • Added:  3 April 2012
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Thinking of buying your council flat?

  Things to consider before you buy a flat where the freeholder is a council, housing association or other social landlord.

  • Added:  3 April 2012
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Your right to buy your home: Summary

  If you rent your home from the local council or a housing association, find out if this is the perfect time to buy your home.

  • Added:  3 April 2012
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• New Homes Bonus: Unlocking the Bonus Bulletin

  'Unlocking the Bonus Bulletin' shows how different authorities are using their New Homes Bonus payments to benefit their communities in diverse ways.

  • Added:  1 December 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Top tips for tenants: Assured shorthold tenancies

  These tips are for people who are or who are thinking of becoming an assured shorthold tenant.

  • Added:  3 September 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• Top tips for landlords: Assured shorthold tenancies

  These tips are for landlords who have let or who intend to let a property on an assured shorthold tenancy.

  • Added:  3 September 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• Apportionment of Rents (leasehold houses)/Rentcharges (freehold houses)

  This leaflet explains how you can have you rent apportioned by the Rentcharge Team, or if your property is in Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government.

  • Added:  10 August 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Redemption of Rentcharges on freehold houses

  This leaflet explains how you may be able to redeem your rentcharge by paying a single lump sum if your rentcharge is a type that is redeemable under the provisions of the Rentcharges Act 1977.

  • Added:  10 August 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Land Registry - Example of a register

  This document is an example of an Official Copy of Register of Title held at the Land Registry.

  • Added:  10 August 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Fact sheet: Gaining possession of a privately rented property let on an assured shorthold tenancy

  This fact sheet has been prepared for landlords who wish to gain possession of a privately rented property let on an assured shorthold tenancy.

  • Added:  3 August 2011
  • Site: Housing
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance