Monday, 13 April 2015

5,000 'Rent To Buy' Homes Set To Be Built With £700m Funding

A housing company is looking for £700m of institutional investment to build 5,000 homes across England for tenants to buy without saving for a deposit. RentPlus, a new Plymouth-based firm, plans to build the swathe of new housing over five years across the south-west, Cambridgeshire and East Anglia. The homes will initially be let at sub-market rent, with tenants eventually able to purchase their properties. Under the model, housing associations lease the homes from RentPlus and offer a series of five-year renewable tenancies of up to 20 years, with tenants given the option to buy their home at the end of each five-year period. Read more on Inside Housing.

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