Buying a Housing association house-assured tennancy

[uk_vette]

My sister & family has lived in her current 3 bedroom home for 10 years.
It belongs to a housing association, and she has always paid rent
This on assured tennancy.
She was told she has no rights to buy it, is that right?
She has made requests to buy, but the housing association don't want to sell.

Is that the end of it, or is there more routes to request to buy.
House is in Cheshire.

[Six Fiend]

Unless it's already on a staircasing shared ownership agreement I'm not sure there's huge help.

HAs often have to keep a certain amount of rental stock to retain a balance when the shared ownership are bought out.

[loafer123]

uk_vette said:

My sister & family has lived in her current 3 bedroom home for 10 years.
It belongs to a housing association, and she has always paid rent
This on assured tennancy.
She was told she has no rights to buy it, is that right?
She has made requests to buy, but the housing association don't want to sell.

Is that the end of it, or is there more routes to request to buy.
House is in Cheshire.

No right to buy, and as, presumably, she wants to buy it at a nice low price - why would they want to sell?

[ss64ii]

Right to buy only if you were a tenant before 1997, as I understand it.

From the Government website -

The Right to Buy scheme The Right to Buy scheme gives eligible council tenants the right to buy their property from their council at a discount. Tenants of housing associations who hold the preserved right to buy (PRTB) may also be eligible for the scheme.
Are you eligible?
If you have been a secure council tenant for at least two years (or five years if you became a tenant after 18 January 2005) you are likely to have the Right to Buy your council home at a discount.

If your were a secure tenant of a local authority and the ownership of your property was transferred to a housing association you may be eligible for a Preserved Right to Buy (PRTB) for your property. This will only apply if you are still the tenant of the same property before and after the transfer.



You do not have the right to buy if:

you are an assured tenant of a registered social landlord (RSL) and do not possess a PRTB
your home is rented in relation to your employment
the courts have issued a possession order for you to leave your home
you are undergoing bankruptcy proceedings
you live in housing specially provided for older people and (in certain cases) disabled people

[Rob.]

I own 80% of my place and a housing association own the rest. I have thought about stair-casing but can never own the property outright. So I guess this housing association does a similar thing.