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How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.

• Overview

  Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…

• Preparing to sell

  If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…

• Energy Performance Certificates

  An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…

• Getting an estate agent

  You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…

• Finding a solicitor or conveyancer

  A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…

• Offers and negotiations

  Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…

• Transferring ownership (conveyancing)

  After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…

• Selling a property for someone else

  You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…

• Making a complaint

  You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…

Buy your housing association home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.

• Overview

  You might be able to buy your rented housing association home at a…

• Discounts

  You can get a discount of between £9,000 and £16,000 on the price of your…

• Applying

  Fill in the Right to Acquire application form. Send it to your landlord.…

• Your landlord’s offer

  If your landlord agrees to sell, their offer will tell you: the price they…

• Selling your home

  If you sell your home within 10 years of buying it through Right to…

• Help and advice

  Ask your landlord about Right to Acquire. They may also be able to help…

Apply for compensation if you own property near the proposed High Speed 2 route, Phase 1 or 2 - what you can claim for, eligibility, how to apply

• Overview

  You may be able to sell your property to the government at its market…

• Express Purchase Scheme

  You can sell your property to the government through the Express Purchase…

• Exceptional Hardship Scheme (Phase 2b)

  The Exceptional Hardship Scheme has now closed. If you’ve already applied…

• Need to Sell Scheme

  You may be able to sell your property to the government through the Need…

• Cash Offer or Voluntary Purchase Scheme

  You may be able to apply for a Cash Offer if you do not want to sell your…

• Homeowner Payment Scheme (Phase 1 and Phase 2a)

  You may be eligible for a payment if you live in the homeowner payment…

• Rent Back

  If you’re selling your property to the government under one of the schemes…

How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.

• Updated: 15 March 2024

Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.

• Updated: 21 May 2024

Guide for overseas investors on how to access NHS procurement channels.

• Updated: 28 September 2018

Tax and reporting rules for assets bought, sold or given

What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business

Major new plans to modernise home buying and selling to save people time and money and further measures to improve the lives of leaseholders

• Updated: 9 February 2025

How to work out your taxable capital gain or loss if you are not resident in the UK and are making direct or indirect disposals of UK property or land.

• Updated: 27 October 2021