Bidding for available homes

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All properties becoming available for letting are advertised on the Home Connections website. New properties are advertised every week.

When we close the weekly advertising cycle, we have a list of everybody who has registered an expression of interest for each property advertised. From these lists we offer the property to the bidder with the highest priority, that is, the bidder with the highest band and the earliest priority date in that band.

In a small number of cases, we won’t offer the property to the bidder with the highest priority because they are a council tenant with rent arrears, or there is another good reason. In this case, the property will be offered to the person on the list with the next highest priority.