Housing transfer
Housing transfer continues to represent a key tool in the drive to achieve the Decent Homes Standard, to deliver greater private investment in affordable housing and to facilitate wider regeneration initiatives.
Housing transfer offers a whole stock option for some local authorities and targeted solutions for the regeneration of urban estates for others. It represents opportunities for RSLs to engage with local authorities to acquire affordable homes in exchange for commitments to refurbish, redevelop or regenerate them. It can deliver tenant empowerment through community gateway and other tenant-led models.
Housing transfer is a specialist area requiring a full understanding of special statutory procedures, public sector powers, working closely with tenants, CLG and Housing Corporation requirements, the RSL sector, commercial negotiations, company structures, housing finance, charity law, tax, staff transfer, pensions and complex regeneration and development schemes. We are the acknowledged market leader in this field, having advised over 200 RSLs and local authorities on transfers, ranging from whole stock transfers of 80,000 dwellings to complex regeneration schemes involving the creation of new mixed tenure urban communities.
Whether you are a local authority wishing to explore transfer or an RSL wishing to deliver regeneration projects through transfer, our transfer teams will use their experience and market knowledge to give you swift, pragmatic advice and options in relation to these complex transactions.
Key contact: Ian Doolittle