Improving your chance of getting your new home

Improving your chance of getting your new home

Our guide to Home Choice

It’s really important that people on our housing register (Hampshire Home Choice) use it in the most effective way. Here are some useful tips to help you through the Home Choice process giving you the opportunity to choose where you wish to live.

Remaining on the register

• You do not have to bid on properties to keep your application active.

• To keep your application active, you MUST complete a renewal application every year. We will write to you to remind you to do this. If you do not complete your renewal, your application will be cancelled.

Bidding for vacant properties

All vacant housing association properties will be advertised at hampshirehomechoice.org.uk. You can submit your interest in these properties by bidding.

• You can bid for any property suited to your housing need and requirements.

• You can place up to three bids each week.

• You do not have to make regular bids to keep your application active.

Offer of accommodation

When the bidding cycle has ended, we will have a list of applicants who have submitted their bid. We then nominate the suitable applicant in the highest priority position to the housing association landlord. The housing association will carry out their own verification checks to ensure the property is suitable and affordable for the applicant and if satisfied, they will make a formal offer of accommodation.

Refusals

• ONLY bid for properties that you wish to live in.

• If you are offered a suitable property that you do not want, and you refuse the offer, this may be deemed as an unreasonable refusal.

• If you refuse two suitable offers within a 6 month period, your application will be suspended for 6 months and you will not be considered for accommodation during this time.