Statutory Instruments of the Scottish Parliament

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You may also find it helpful to read The Scottish Executive booklet "Your Right to Buy Your Home". You can get a copy from your landlord, local citizens' advice centre or The Scottish Executive Development Department, Housing Division, (phone 0131-244-2857 or 2021). Your landlord will help you to fill in this form free of charge.	First names
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If you would like advice on any aspect of buying your home, you should consider taking legal advice or discuss the matter with your local citizens' advice centre, to make sure that your interests are fully protected. This is important if you have been approached by someone to buy your home, in return for handing over ownership of the house to that person at a later date.	Address of the house you wish to buy: Postcode: Telephone no: If you rent a garage/lock-up do you wish to buy it? Please tick one box only. YES NO

	Please tick appropriate box
1. Do you wish to purchase under: (a) Right to Buy terms? or
(b) Rent to Mortgage terms?
Please tick one box only
(c) If you are buying under Rent to Mortgage, please give your date of birth:

(i) If you wish to buy your house you will wish to consider whether Right to Buy or Rent to Mortgage is more appropriate to your circumstances. The "Your Right to Buy Your Home" booklet explains how both schemes work.

(ii) If you can afford the payments under the Right to Buy, this may be better suited to you.

(iii) If the payments under the Right to Buy would be too much for you, the Rent to Mortgage terms may be the more affordable alternative. Under this scheme payments can be 90% of what you presently pay in rent.

BUT

(iv) You cannot buy your home under Rent to Mortgage if you live in a designated defective property; and

(v) You cannot buy your home under Rent to Mortgage if you have received housing benefit in the last 12 months, or are in the process of applying for housing benefit. If you have claimed housing benefit in the last 12 months, or a claim was made on your behalf but this claim has not been determined or withdrawn, you will have to find out if the claim is successful before deciding if you can buy your home on Rent to Mortgage terms. If you claim housing benefit after applying to buy on Rent to Mortgage terms, you should inform your landlord immediately.

(vi) If you do not accept an offer to sell within the appropriate time limits your position as tenant will not be affected in any way. You can make another application to buy at any time.



2. Who do you wish to value the house?	Please tick one box only
	The district valuer of the Valuation Office Agency Landlord nominated valuer

Note
The district valuer will automatically value your house unless your landlord has suggested, and you have agreed, that the valuation is carried out by a valuer nominated by your landlord. You are free to decide whether or not to accept a valuer nominated by your landlord.

The district valuer is completely independent.
     3. For each tenant of the house please fill in the following:-

Surname	First names	Date of birth	Does the tenant wish to buy? Please tick appropriate box
			Yes	No
			Yes	No
			Yes	No
			Yes	No

Notes

(i) You are the tenant or joint tenant if your name appears on the tenancy agreement, rent book or rent card.

(ii) The agreement and signature of any tenant who does not wish to buy must be obtained before you can apply to buy. Their tenancy will end when you buy the house. If so, that tenant should sign at paragraph B at the end of the form.

(iii) A tenant's or joint tenant's husband or wife living in the house as their principal or only home, but who are themselves not tenants, must agree to the tenant or tenants buying. If so they must sign at paragraph C at the end of the form.

     4. You can share the right to purchase with any member of your family who is not a tenant provided that they live with you. In this case please fill in the following:-

			Have they lived with you for the last 6 months as their only or principal home?		Are they at least 18 years of age?
Surname	First names	Relationship to tenant	Please tick appropriate box
			Yes	No	Yes	No
			Yes	No	Yes	No
			Yes	No	Yes	No

Notes

(i) Your husband or wife or other family member who is not a tenant may share the right to buy with you if they are at least 18 and have lived with you throughout the last 6 months in the house as their only or principal home. A person living with you as your husband or wife, but not married to you, is regarded as a family member (for periods shorter than 6 months please see part 5 below).

(ii) Any family member applying to be a joint purchaser should sign paragraph D at the end of this form.

     5. Any member of your family who is not a tenant and who is between 16 and 18 or has not lived with you continuously for the last 6 months may, at your landlords discretion, be included in your application as joint purchasers. If you have ticked any of the 'No' boxes in paragraph 4 it may be helpful if you provide information below to help your landlord decide whether to accept the person as a joint purchaser.

    

    

    

    

    

Note
An example of information which is helpful would be to give details of how long a member of your family who has not lived with you throughout the last 6 months has been living with you; whether they have lived with you for a longer period of time in the past and the reasons why they are likely to continue living with you.

Notes for paragraph 6
(For convenience, these notes are given before the part to be filled in)

(i) To qualify to buy your home you must, immediately prior to applying to buy your home, have spent a total of at least 2 years as a tenant of a public sector landlord (see page 17) but:-


(a) you need not have spent the 2 years in your present home or with your present landlord;

(b) in some circumstances periods which another person (such as your husband or wife) has spent as a public sector tenant can count towards your 2 year qualifying period;

(c) time spent living in houses provided by any of the landlords listed at the end of this form can count;

(d) periods spent after reaching the age of 16 living in a house where a parent or a member of family was a public sector tenant may count if the child succeeded to the parent's or family member's public sector tenancy; and

(e) a joint tenant can add to his period of occupation any period during which he was at least 16 and occupied the house as a member of the family of the tenant.



(ii) Discount under the Right to Buy depends on the length of time spent as a public sector tenant. In general, the level of discount expressed as a percentage of the market value is as follows-



	Right to Buy		Rent to Mortgage
Years spent as tenant	Houses	Flats	Houses	Flats
2-4	32%-34%	44%-48%	17%-19%	29%-33%
5-9	35%-39%	50%-58%	20%-24%	35%-43%
10-14	40%-44%	60%-68%	25%-29%	45%-53%
15-19	45%-49%	70%	30%-34%	55%
20-24	50%-54%	70%	35%-39%	55%
25-29	55%-59%	70%	40%-45%	55%
30 and over	60%	70%	45%	55%


(iii) If your property has been built or refurbished over the last 10 years and your landlord has incurred capital and repair costs (Note that only that portion of repair costs, which is greater than £5,500 will count) that exceed £5,000, this may affect (increase) the purchase price of your home. In such cases, where the amount incurred on the building or improving of the property is greater than its market value, the landlord must sell you the property at that market value.

     6. So that your discount can be calculated please go through the headings in bold below and where a heading applies to you, fill in the boxes in the row opposite the heading. If you are applying jointly with other tenants, each tenant/joint tenant/spouse should fill in a separate table.

Present and previous tenancies
Give details in row 1 of:

(a) your present tenancy; and

(b) any time spent in the past when you were a public sector tenant.

If you are married and living with your husband or wife
Give details in row 2 of any periods when your husband or wife:

(a) was a public sector tenant; or

(b) was previously married to another person and they lived in a house or flat of which their husband or wife was a public sector tenant.

If you are separated or have been divorced
Give details in row 3 of any periods when you were living and married in a property of which your separated or former husband or wife was a public sector tenant.

If your husband or wife has died and you were living together when he or she died
Give details in row 4 of any periods when your deceased husband or wife:

(a) was a public sector tenant; or

(b) was previously married to another person and they lived in a house or flat of which their husband or wife at that time was a public sector tenant.

If there has been succession to a public sector tenancy of a parent or a member of the family
Give details in row 5 of any periods when any of the following people were over the age of 16 and living with a parent or a member of their family who was a public sector tenant:

(a) you;

(b) a person to whom you are or were once married; and

(c) a person to whom your husband or wife was once married.

If you are a joint tenant and occupied a house as a member of the family of a tenant and were over 16
Give details in row 6 of the periods of such occupation when you were over 16.


Purchaser's name

Period		Name of tenant(s)	Address of Property	Name of landlord
From (month and year)	To (month and year)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Purchaser's name

Period		Name of tenant(s)	Address of Property	Name of landlord
From (month and year)	To (month and year)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Purchaser's name

Period		Name of tenant(s)	Address of Property	Name of landlord
From (month and year)	To (month and year)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Purchaser's name

Period		Name of tenant(s)	Address of Property	Name of landlord
From (month and year)	To (month and year)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

     7. Have any of the following people bought a property at a discount from a public sector landlord before.

	Please tick appropriate box
	Yes	No
(a) you or	Yes	No
(b) your husband or wife; or	Yes	No
(c) your deceased husband or wife; or	Yes	No
(d) a joint buyer with you of this house.	Yes	No

If you have answered YES to any of the above, please fill in the boxes below for each case:-

Address of property	Name of public sector landlord	Name of previous buyer	Date of purchase (month and year)

Note
The amount of any discount on a previous purchase from a public sector landlord, less any sum repaid, will be deducted from the discount allowed on your present purchase.

     8. Give details (below) of any tenant's improvements to the house that you think may affect the value of the house eg central heating, double glazing, a fitted kitchen or a new bathroom suite:

    

    

    

Notes

(i) When the house is valued to fix the price, any improvements you have made will be ignored and the price may therefore be lower. (Note: This refers to those improvements, the cost of which, had you given up your tenancy, you could have got back from your Landlord).

(ii) If a member of your family, or your former husband or wife, was the tenant of the house immediately before you, any such improvements they made to the house will also be ignored.