Eligibility to buy your home

As a Broadacres customer, you may be eligible to buy your home under one of two schemes:

  • Preserved Right to Buy (RTB)
  • Right to Acquire (RTA)

These schemes are offered by housing associations and give tenants the chance to buy their rented home outright at a discount. The discount is calculated depending on the number of years spent as a tenant. The discount under the RTA is limited to between £9,000 – £10,000 for the North Yorkshire area. The maximum RTB discount is £77,900 and will increase each year in April 2015 in line with the consumer price index (CPI).

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You can use the Right to Buy calculator to find out how much discount you could get.

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Useful information about Right to Buy schemes

Which scheme applies to you?

If you were a secure tenant of Hambleton District Council in 1993 or Harrogate Borough Council in 1997, became an assured tenant when ownership of your home transferred to Broadacres and you have continuously been a tenant of Broadacres you may qualify for the RTB scheme. You may also qualify if you have succeeded to such a tenancy.

Under the RTA scheme the property and the tenant must qualify. To qualify for the scheme the property must have been built or purchased by a housing association on or after 1st April 1997 and partially funded with Government grant. Properties in some villages and specialised types of accommodation are not eligible. You must also have been a tenant for at least 2 years unless you are a tenant for the first time on or after 18th January 2005, in which case the period is 5 years but you need not have spent these in your present home.

What we will do?

If you have a Preserved Right to Buy or Right to Acquire and you wish to purchase your home, please contact us we will:

  • Provide you with free advice on completing your application and helping you through the process
  • Send you an application pack in the post including a RTB or a RTA Application form and the relevant supporting leaflets
  • Confirm if you have the RTB or RTA within four weeks providing we have all relevant information
  • Provide you with a valuation of your property within twelve weeks of your application, if we have all relevant information and you have allowed our valuer access to your home
  • Fulfil all our obligations and responsibilities to you as a buyer
  • Respond fully to any enquiry within agreed timescales
  • Offer high quality and relevant advice and help.

Where can you find out more information?

To find about more information about Right to Buy, please visit the following websites: