Home Ownership Service - Right To Buy
(Also known as: RTB)
The service gives help, advice and information on right-to-buy applications. It will give you detailed information on the application form and take you through explaining any queries.
Who can use this service:
The service is available for people living within the city boundary and is available for all secure tenants of the council for between two and five years.
Ways To Apply:
For advice, help and to request a free booklet or application form you can contact us: In writing: Southampton City Council, Right to Buy section, 1st Floor, Southbrook Rise, 4-8 Millbrook Road East, Southampton SO15 1YG By telephone: 023 8083 4137 By fax: 023 8083 2136 By email: housing.services@southampton.gov.uk
Contact Details:
Telephone: 023 8083 4137
Email: housing.services@southampton.gov.uk
Fax: 023 8083 2136
Details of service:
The Service gives help, advice and information on right-to-buy applications.
The Right to Buy scheme is open to virtually any secure tenant who can afford to buy, with the exception of homes occupied in connection with their employment and housing specially provided for older people and (in certain cases) disabled people.
Under the Right to Buy scheme, you can buy your home at a price lower than the full market value. This is because the length of time you have spent as a tenant entitles you to a discount. This discount needs to be repaid if you move within 5 years of the completion of the sale.
It is targeted at well-established public tenants, with the discount increasing in rough proportion to the years they have been paying rent.
If eligible you can buy your home by paying the full purchase price at once with a maximum discount for both flats and houses, depending on where you live.
Last updated: 27 October 2008
