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Home Purchase Grant

Overview

The Home Purchase Grant is a scheme we offer to help Southwark tenants achieve homeownership.

The scheme offers a one-off lump sum payment that can be used towards the following:

  • helping you buy a home on the open market
  • contributing towards the cost of an extension
  • helping to pay for part of an existing mortgage for a home you want to move into

The grant is only available for properties in England, Scotland or Wales.

It excludes properties in the Channel Islands.

You cannot use the Home Purchase Grant to buy the following types of property:

  • a mobile home or houseboat
  • a property sold at auction
  • a business or part business property
  • your existing council property under the Right to Buy scheme
  • a property abroad