Customer Services
Stage 1 - Making an application
RTA1 application form - Tenant's notice claiming the right to acquire (301 KB) Right to Acquire guidance notes (176 KB)
(A paper copy of the form and guidance notes can be obtained from our offices). More information is available on the Housing Corporation website.
Some properties are exempt from the Right to Acquire e.g. properties in sheltered housing schemes, and some properties designated as being particularly suitable to house a person aged 60 or over. Also some individual tenants are not eligible for the Right to Acquire e.g. undischarged bankrupts, and tenants subject to a court order for possession.
An RTA2 Notice will be sent to you to tell you if we can accept your application to buy or not. The RTA2 Notice will be sent within four weeks if you have been a tenant with Mole Valley Housing Association or the council for two years or more. If you have not been a tenant with Mole Valley Housing Association or the council for two years it will take up to eight weeks to reply to you because we have to check the information on your other tenancies with your previous landlord.
If we cannot accept your application, we will give you the reason why on the RTA2 Notice.
You should keep the RTA2 Notice in a safe place as you may need to give it to your bank or building society if you are having a mortgage.
As soon as your Right to Acquire application is received any improvements or repairs that are due to be done will be cancelled (except for work required by law to keep the property weather-tight). This is because when the property is valued the valuation is based on the date your Right to Acquire application was made. Any improvements or repairs after that date would affect the valuation.
