What to do if you are looking to sell your partial ownership home
If you would like to sell your partial ownership property back to the GHA, please get in touch so we can help you with the process. In summary, the steps you need to take are:
Before you contact the GHA, you must make sure that your property is in ‘good order.’ By this we mean that the property needs to be returned to the GHA in good repair and condition.
Contact your Housing Officer to ask the GHA Maintenance Inspector and your Housing Officer to visit and inspect your property. It must meet the minimum lettable standards as stated in the policy.
Once an agreement has taken place that your property is ready to be sold back, you will need to choose a valuer from our list of registered valuers. The partial owner will be recharged the valuation fee by the GHA.
The valuer will complete their valuation and return the documents to the GHA and the Housing Officer will draw up the surrender documents, which the partial owner will need to sign.
Partial owners have three months to return the property to the GHA and, within this time, allow viewings to take place.
Tenants moving on
If you would like to move to alternative housing - whether it is another GHA property, States Housing (ESS), into a nursing home or residential home, moving into the private sector or leaving the island - then you will need to follow the policy for rented tenants moving on.
This policy sets out the steps that you will need to follow. To summarise:
1. You will need to give the GHA four weeks' written notice (known as a termination period).
2. Full rent will be charged for the whole notice period. However, if we are able to let the property sooner and secure the rent, the outgoing tenant will be released from the termination period early.
3. You must clean and clear the property of all the furniture and personal belongings.
