Right to Buy is a government scheme that lets you buy your home at a substantial discount if you’re a council tenant. You might even be able to use your discount as a mortgage deposit so you can buy your home with less savings.
If you’ve lived in a house for anywhere between three and five years, you’re eligible for a 35% discount off the property value. If you have lived there for longer than five years, that discount increases by 1% for every extra year that you’ve been a local authority tenant, up to a maximum of 70% in total. This is capped outside of London at a maximum discount of £84,600. If you are inside London it’s £120,800.
For flats it’s very similar, the only difference is instead of 1% extra discount for every year above five years tenancy, It’s 2%.
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Edge Mortgages Ltd T/A Edge Mortgages(FCA No 988131) is an Appointed Representative of Connect IFA Ltd (FCA No. 441505) which is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and is entered on the financial services register(register.fca.org.uk) under reference 922009.
