Borough Council of Wellingborough

Finding a Home

Your Choices

Introduction

There are a variety of ways to find a new home in the borough:

  1. Social Rent
  2. Affordable Rent (80% of local private market rents)
  3. Private Rent
  4. Homebuy (formerly known as Shared Ownership)
  5. Outright Sale

Social Rent

Since December 2007 The Borough Council of Wellingborough (BCW) transfered its housing stock to social landlords. Housing Strategy works with regisitered social landlords and developers to increase the supply of rented social housing in the borough. To be considered for social rented housing you need to join the waiting list by first registering your name with the council.

Affordable Rent

The new intermediate (affordable rent) tenure allows housing associations to charge up to 80% of local market rents.

Private Rent

There are a number of letting agents offering accommodation to rent in the private sector and properties are advertised in the local free papers and Wednesdays Evening Telegraph.

Globrix allows your to search from rented and properties to buy in the Borough.

Shared Ownership

EMHomeBuy offer Shared Ownership and First Buy Home products in the borough: To find out more information visit the Homebuy WebPage.

Outright Sale

There are a number of Estate agents within the Borough offering housing solutions. You can find details of these using our online directory.

 

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