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DOING IT UP! SWAP!

Need more bedrooms? Downsizing?
Want to move closer to family or a new
job? A mutual exchange is a quick way
for two or more households to swap
homes and move to the areas of their
choice.

The Housing Act 1985 gives tenants the right to do
this with another LHP, council or housing association
tenant from this or any other area. You may be
eligible - with our permission - to exchange or
‘swap’ your property if:

• you live in self-contained accommodation, for
example a house or flat
• both you and the tenant you want to exchange
homes with are renting your homes from the
Home ownership manager Sarah Smaller with Doer-Upper owner Jason council or housing association
• both of you have a secure or assured tenancies.

Since its launch less than a year ago, The Doer-Upper scheme is open to anyone who ALL NEW MEWS An exchange is an ‘assignment of tenancies’, which
a third of LHP Doer-Upper homes have lives or works in North East Lincolnshire, who means you enter an agreement to hand over your
doesn’t own a property already and meets other
been successfully sold. eligibility criteria. Pilgrim Mews is a modern complex of one bedroom tenancy to the other party in the exchange, and
they do the same. You then take responsibility for
At up to 35% off the market value, homes from as The scheme is designed for owner-occupiers flats and studio apartments in the heart of Boston the other party’s tenancy on the same terms and
little as £9,750* are offered through our popular not property investors, developers or landlords part of a multi-million pound refurbishment conditions as them.
scheme. and priority is given to existing LHP tenants programme which saw the the transformation of
the former older person’s scheme.
and residents living or working in North East The benefits of a mutual exchange
Doer-Uppers provide an affordable home ownership Lincolnshire.
opportunity and innovative empty property A mutual exchange can offer a quick way to move
refurbishment programme enabling local residents The sales do not affect any occupied property and and can be easy to arrange. It is particularly useful if
to purchase their own home while ‘doing it up’. therefore no existing tenant or leaseholder. *lowest priced three-bedroom home with 35% off the market value available at time of print. you:

Located across North East Lincolnshire, the two, • need a smaller or larger home
three and four-bedroom homes vary in specification “THIS SCHEME IS PROVING POPULAR • are interested in moving to a new area
WITH OUR CUSTOMERS AND IT IS
from needing redecoration and upgrading to more GREAT TO BE ABLE TO OFFER A • want to find a more suitable home
comprehensive work. • want to avoid a lengthy wait for a transfer
DIFFERENT ROUTE IN TO HOME • want to remain a LHP tenant or a tenant of a
OWNERSHIP.”
Since its launch the scheme has proved popular with registered provider of housing.
local people grabbing the chance to get a foot on
the property ladder without needing a huge deposit LHP home ownership manager FIND THE DOER-UPPER FOR YOU Visit www.lincolnshirehp.com for more
or falling foul of rising property prices. Sarah Smaller AT WWW.LINCOLNSHIREHP.COM information.

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