Most properties can be sold without our permission. However, always check if your lease or transfer deed requires you to offer the property to the council first. If there are no such rules, or if the council does not want to buy it, you can use any estate agent to sell your property.
Check before selling your property
Before putting your property up for sale, review your lease or transfer deed for a right of first refusal clause.
This rule means you must first offer to sell your property back to the council at market value before selling it elsewhere.
This applies to:
- properties bought under Right to Buy after January 18 2005 (for 10 years from purchase date)
- shared ownership properties where you own less than 100%
This means that your property may be subject to a right of first refusal even if you bought the property on the open market.
You can only sell your property on the open market if the council declines their right to buy it first.
Home information pack
When selling or remortgaging your property, your solicitors or lenders may ask us questions.
They usually want to know about:
- planned and ongoing building work
- service charge details
- building insurance
- your service charge and major works account balances
- general property information
These are provided within a home information pack.
For costs of the standard home information pack, look at management and administration fees.
Your solicitor or lender should ask for this information pack in writing. We will send it to them within 10 working days.
Your solicitor will usually keep back some money from your property sale. This covers any changes in service charges from when you owned the property, or any major works that were agreed but not yet billed. This is a private agreement between you and the buyer. Any unpaid amounts will pass to the new owner.