What are the downsides to shared ownership?
- Maintenance charges. …
- No renting allowed. …
- Buying up increased shares in your property can be expensive. …
- Restrictions on what you can do. …
- The risk of negative equity. …
- Issues around selling your share when moving home. …
- You don’t have greater protection under shared ownership.
Can I make adaptations / alterations to my Shared Ownership property? You should check the terms of your lease. You must have the landlord’s permission in writing before you make any alterations to your property. However, they should not be able to withhold permission unreasonably.
Selling your Shared Ownership home
- Contact your housing provider. First and foremost, you will need to contact your housing provider to let them know that you’d like to sell your home. …
- Get a valuation. …
- Contract of sale. …
- Get an EPC certificate. …
- Arranging photography. …
- Finding a buyer. …
- The sale.
LTF has always deemed shared ownership to be a con – an ‘affordable’ tenure that is affordable only to a better off minority. London Living Rent is little better. Ambitious targets for new social rented housing are what is needed under the draft new London Plan, and are sadly lacking.
A deposit for a shared ownership mortgage is typically between 5% and 10% of the value of the share you’re buying – not the full purchase price.
Fact: shared owners can paint and decorate as they want.
Shared owners don’t need their landlord’s permission for anything other than structural changes, so are free to paint and decorate.
If your housing association is able to find a buyer within the nomination period they have to sell your share, the process can often be quicker than selling on the open market. However, if you live in an area where Shared Ownership properties are less in demand, finding a buyer can be harder.
As a shared owner you are able to take in a lodger but you must make sure that: You inform us that you are taking in a lodger. You don’t give your lodger a tenancy agreement. You do not move out.
How can I buy 100% of Shared Ownership property? You can gain full ownership of your Shared Ownership property through a process called ‘staircasing’. Once you’ve bought your initial stake in your home you can staircase to 100% Ownership in batches of 10% or larger.
Shared Ownership Basics
Also referred to as part buy/part rent, Shared Ownership allows buyers to purchase a share of a property; they will pay a mortgage on the share they own, and a below-market-value rent on the remainder.
Can I have pets in a Shared Ownership home? Your lease will tell you if you can keep pets in your home. If you live in a house then there aren’t usually any restrictions. However, if you live in an apartment you are unlikely to be able to keep a pet.
says the advantages of shared ownership is that “it can enable you to get on to the property ladder more quickly than you might if you wanted to buy a home outright; it may be cheaper than renting; and you can sell a shared ownership property at any time and will benefit from any increase in value it’s seen since you …
You’ll pay less rent compared to regular renting. The bigger your share, the lower your rent. You’ll have more freedom to make modifications, redecorate etc, compared to if you were just renting from a landlord. You can increase your share at any time, so you can end up fully owning your own home.
With shared ownership schemes, the deposit you pay will be far lower than if you were to get a mortgage for the whole property. If you don’t have many funds to start out with, Shared Ownership could help you avoid living in a ‘not so nice’ part of town or waiting around to scrape a deposit together.