Shared ownership explained

Shared ownership is a form of tenure virtually unique to the housing association movement.  In simple terms, sharing owners buy a share in their home, usually 25% or 50%.  Most sharing owners raise a mortgage from a bank or building society just as if they were buying a home in the normal way.

The housing association owns the remaining share.  The sharing owner pays rent on this remaining share to the Association.

For example, if you were the sharing owner of a flat valued at £50,000 and you bought a 25% share you would pay a mortgage of £12,500 to the bank or building society.  You would also pay 75% of the rent that would normally be charged on the property to us.

Sharing owners can buy further shares in the property until outright ownership is achieved but are under no obligation to do so.  Similarly, the sharing owner can decide to advertise and sell their share on the open market.

You can find out if we are currently building any shared ownership housing in our New Developments section.

Please note that we do not keep waiting lists for our low cost home ownership schemes until they are advertised. Any available shared ownership properties for sale will be displayed in the Available Homes section of our website.

We may also advertise in local estate agents and the property sections of local and national newspapers, so is worth checking these regularly.