If you’re a secure tenant, you can exchange your home with another council or housing association tenant. This is sometimes called a mutual exchange. To exchange your council home, register on the house exchange website at www.houseexchange.org.uk
When you find a tenant to swap homes with, you must write to us to ask for permission to exchange. We will confirm if the exchange can go ahead within 42 days.
Sometimes, there are conditions that you may need to fulfil before we allow an exchange. Your rent account must be up to date, and if there is any damage or unauthorised alterations to the property, you would need to put this right.
We will inspect your home before any exchange and arrange to test the electricity supply and fittings to make sure they are safe.
There are circumstances where an exchange may not be allowed, for example if:
- you, or the other tenant, has a Notice Seeking Possession or a court order against you.
- the exchange would mean that one or both homes would be overcrowded or under occupied.
- the property has been adapted for special needs or the elderly, and the tenants you want to exchange with do not have those needs.
- where certain repairs are the landlord’s responsibility then these may need to be completed before the assignment can take place.
