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The Home Ownership Team provides information on the following schemes available to help people buy their own home:

• Right to Buy
• Grants to Move
• New Build HomeBuy

• Right to Buy

  
  A scheme for council tenants wishing to buy the council property they currently occupy with a maximum discount allowance of £16,000.
  
  

  Availability:

  Open to secure council tenants (excluding those in sheltered accommodation).
    

• Grants to Move

  
  A scheme to help secure council tenants buy a home of their own in the private sector. The scheme provides cash grants to tenants who could not otherwise afford to buy. The amount of grant depends on length of tenancy and number of bedrooms you have in your current council property. Please note there is no funding available at the present time for this scheme. However, if you are interested we can take your details and write to you in the event of any money becoming available.
  
  

  Availability:

  Available to secure council tenants.
   

• First Steps - the gateway to affordable housing in London

  
  L&Q is the Government’s HomeBuy Agent for South East and South West London. In partnership with Metropolitan Home Ownership (the HBA for the East, North and West London regions) we run the FIRST STEPS service for Londoners that are not able to afford to buy or rent good quality accommodation on the open market.  We work closely with Kingston Council to help meet the housing needs of Kingston residents.
  
  FIRST STEPS enables anyone looking for an affordable home in London to complete just one application form to access a range of affordable shared ownership and equity loan schemes being marketed in London. It is also possible to find rented accommodation that charges rents that are lower than on the open market.  For more information visit www.firststepslondon.org - see related link below or call 0845 230 8099
  
  

  Availability:

  Available to secure council and housing association tenants and people registered on the Kingston Housing Register who have an intermediate housing need. The Council works in partnership with London and Quadrant, the HomeBuy Agent who administers intermediate schemes. Note: Intermediate housing is available for those in housing need but who aren't eligible for social rent and cannot afford to rent or buy in the open market.

Contact us

For more information about any of these schemes, please contact:
Home Ownership
Guildhall 2
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1EU
Telephone: 020 8547 5003 and ask to speak to a member of the Home Ownership Team