This is the launch of a new monthly news story updating on the ongoing work of the Rough Sleeping Initiative. Each post will feature comment and narrative from officials within the initiative.
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Thursday, 04 October 2018
Thursday, 04 October 2018
This is the launch of a new monthly news story updating on the ongoing work of the Rough Sleeping Initiative. Each post will feature comment and narrative from officials within the initiative.
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
A new partnership with Barclays Bank to provide £1 billion of loan finance to help support small and medium sized developers will speed up the delivery of thousands of new homes across England.
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Thousands of extra homes will be built that are designed for people who need extra support to help them live independently and in the community for longer.
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
The paper aims to rebalance the relationship between landlords and residents, tackle stigma and ensure social housing can act as a stable base and support social mobility.
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
The paper aims to rebalance the relationship between landlords and residents, tackle stigma and ensure social housing can act as a stable base and support social mobility.
Monday, 13 August 2018
Up to 6,000 vulnerable people will receive rapid specialist assessments and support under new measures in the government’s rough sleeping strategy.
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Measures announced as part of the Spring Statement to build the homes the country needs.
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Our external systems will be offline from 5pm today.
Thursday, 11 January 2018
Help to Buy schemes also help more than 300,000 first time buyers onto the housing ladder.
Monday, 08 January 2018
Government confirms new name for department as part of the ministerial reshuffle.
Monday, 13 November 2017
Statements to address misunderstandings about the role of the HCA and the remit of the regulation committee.
Monday, 02 October 2017
Business customers can remove default Form A restrictions faster online. They protect multiple owners’ interests in a property but are not always required.
Monday, 02 October 2017
New funding means that the Help to Buy Equity Loan could help around 135,000 more people to buy homes by 2021.
Thursday, 28 September 2017
The schemes have also helped more than 275,000 first time buyers achieve their dream of owning a home.
Monday, 11 September 2017
Business customers can now request historic copies of title registers and title plans online.
Wednesday, 06 September 2017
Some of our services are temporarily unavailable while we address some technical difficulties.
Wednesday, 06 September 2017
Some of our services are temporarily unavailable while we address some technical difficulties.
Thursday, 17 August 2017
We are improving the Contact Us form in Application Enquiry.
Thursday, 17 August 2017
If you need to contact us please use the contact form.
Monday, 14 August 2017
We have improved the Application Enquiry service which business customers use to check details of any application.
Monday, 07 August 2017
Government remains committed to the Help to Buy equity loan scheme to 2021
Tuesday, 01 August 2017
From 14 August, we will test wider rejection criteria for applications to create new freehold or leasehold titles (first registrations).
Monday, 31 July 2017
Our new practice guide will help our customers meet the registration requirements for transactions involving overseas companies and overseas limited liability partnerships.
Friday, 28 July 2017
Start-up companies and entrepreneurs with pioneering ideas are invited to apply for grant funding of up £20,000, by Thursday 17 August 2017.
Friday, 21 July 2017
Update on the housing commitment to residents who lived in Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk.
Friday, 21 July 2017
On 30 July we are upgrading the security settings for our online services.
Monday, 03 July 2017
We will write to an applicant if an 'address for service' they supply does not match our address data.
Sunday, 25 June 2017
The number of high rise buildings which have failed a combustibility test is now 60 across 25 local authority areas.
Thursday, 22 June 2017
Over 285,000 homeowners, including 240,000 first time buyers, have been supported by the government's Help to Buy schemes.
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
The Homes and Communities Agency stands ready to provide support or advice on Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding testing.
Monday, 19 June 2017
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has given the following statement regarding safety checks following the Grenfell Tower fire.
Monday, 24 April 2017
Business customers that use our online services can now send us 20MB files online.
Friday, 31 March 2017
Organisations that use our portal will have more control over how they manage the email correspondence we send, from 3 April.
Thursday, 30 March 2017
More than 259,000 people have already bought a home using one of the government’s flagship Help to Buy schemes, and over 868,000 have opened a Help to buy: ISA.
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
We will return cancelled application results to a customer’s portal account, even if they sent us the application through the post.
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Customers can be more specific about the type of evidence they are lodging when they lodge it online to support a land registration application.
Monday, 09 January 2017
Our portal update enables customers to withdraw official searches online.
Thursday, 15 December 2016
Over 180,000 supported by the schemes have been first time buyers.
Monday, 07 November 2016
Business customers can now reply to requisitions online, even if they sent us the application through the post.
Thursday, 13 October 2016
The day-to-day experience of how business customers interact with us is changing.
Thursday, 29 September 2016
The Help to Buy: ISA has helped more than 650,000 save towards their own home.
Thursday, 07 July 2016
Presentations from Julian Ashby, Fiona MacGregor and Jonathan Walters.
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Over 500,000 people have opened Help to Buy: ISAs, which offer government bonuses of up to £3000, as they save towards buying a home.
Friday, 13 May 2016
New measures to help more people buy their own home and get houses built faster become law.
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