This section covers what you or your solicitor will need to request from us if you want to sell your home.

You can sell your home at any time.

However, if you sell it within five years of buying it under the right to buy scheme, you must pay back some of the discount we gave you off the original purchase price.

If you sell it within 10 years of buying it under the right to buy scheme, you must offer the Council via Barnet Homes, right of first refusal before offering it for sale on the open market.

Pre-sale information from Barnet Homes

Kindly be advised that we are unable to provide PAE Management Packs to Barnet Homes Freeholders. This is because Barnet Homes do not manage the block and therefore we do not possess the relevant information required.

When you sell your home your solicitor will normally have to ask us for various “pre-assignment” or “pre-sales” information including:

  • details of the lease or transfer agreement
  • buildings insurance (leasehold only)
  • service charge payments
  • future costs.

We will provide this information for a fee. From 01 April 2022, the standard fee for pre-assignment enquiries will be £290. In addition, Barnet Homes will no longer offer the ‘express’ response option for pre-assignment enquiries.

You must pay for the work that we do when you transfer the lease. You must also pay any outstanding charges you owe us before you sell your home.

Ask your solicitor to contact us as early as possible before the sale is transferred. This will help to ensure we have enough time to prepare the pre-sale information.

Payment Method

Kindly be advised that we are unable to provide PAE Management Packs to Barnet Homes Freeholders. This is because Barnet Homes do not manage the block and therefore we do not possess the relevant information required.

Solicitors will need to contact talktous@barnethomes.org for further information regarding bank details that they can pay the £290.

The leaseholder or solicitor must contact us to advise when they have made this payment, or we will not be able to send it in the allotted time requested.

Unfortunately, we no longer accept payment by cheque.