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The Mutual Exchange Register helps tenants to exchange their homes with other Pennine Housing 2000 tenants and tenants of other Councils and Housing Associations. Please contact Pennine Housing for a KeyChoice Mutual Exchange form or Click Here to download the form and then return it to your local housing office once it is completed.
How do I arrange an exchange within Calderdale? [Top]
If you wish to move within Calderdale, you can register on the KeyChoice exchange register, which is kept in district offices and by the end of the summer 2008 on the KeyChoice website. It is a self-help scheme and it is up to you to advertise your property and look for someone to swap with.
How do I find someone to swap with? [Top]
You should advertise your property. You can do this by:
What should I do when I have identified a possible Exchange Partner? [Top]
The first thing to do is to visit each others home to establish whether you would both be happy to exchange. It is advisable to make a thorough inspection of the property you hope to exchange into, as you will have to accept the property as it is when it is vacated – the landlord will not normally accept responsibility for any repairs or defects which are a result of the outgoing tenants misuse or neglect of the property. You may therefore wish to agree in writing with the other party what items are to be left, or even take photographs of the internal condition of the property prior to exchange.
Pennine Housing needs to agree to the swap [Top]
You can only exchange if the respective landlords agree. If you want to proceed, you must at this stage both apply in writing to Pennine Housing 2000/your landlord for permission to exchange. Once you have done this you will be visited by your Housing Officer to check that everything is satisfactory. Pennine will also liaise with any other landlord involved with the exchange.
Can permission to exchange be refused? [Top]
We, or the landlord of the person you are swapping with, may refuse consent if:
Once your written application has been received, we have 6 weeks to assess it and notify you in writing of our decision. If permission is granted, then both parties must agree on the date the exchange is to take place and confirm this with their landlord.
You will be invited to attend your local housing office with the tenant you are exchanging with to sign a Deed of Assignment. If you have a joint tenancy both tenants must attend. Once the Deed of Assignment has been signed you will be able to move. Through the terms of a mutual exchange you take on the same tenancy terms as the tenant you exchange with. Depending on what type of tenancy the person you are swapping with has this may mean that you will take on different rights. For more information speak to your local district office.
Please be aware [Top]
You must not go ahead with a swap without permission from your landlord as you will be putting your tenancy in jeopardy and could end up with no home at all.
Mutual Exchange
Mutual Exchange on the KeyChoice website is now up and running.
- Mutual Exchange Register
- How do I arrange an exchange within Calderdale?
- How do I find someone to swap with?
- What should I do when I have identified a possible Exchange Partner?
- Pennine Housing needs to agree to the swap
- Can permission to exchange be refused?
- What happens next?
- Please be aware
The Mutual Exchange Register helps tenants to exchange their homes with other Pennine Housing 2000 tenants and tenants of other Councils and Housing Associations. Please contact Pennine Housing for a KeyChoice Mutual Exchange form or Click Here to download the form and then return it to your local housing office once it is completed.
How do I arrange an exchange within Calderdale? [Top]
If you wish to move within Calderdale, you can register on the KeyChoice exchange register, which is kept in district offices and by the end of the summer 2008 on the KeyChoice website. It is a self-help scheme and it is up to you to advertise your property and look for someone to swap with.
How do I find someone to swap with? [Top]
You should advertise your property. You can do this by:
- Publicising your property for exchange in the Mutual Exchange Register at your local district office. You can do this by completing a KeyChoice Mutual Exchange form. The details of your property will be kept for 12 months, or more if you renew it.
- Requesting that we advertise your property on our KeyChoice website (from September 2008).
- Visit the local post office/newsagent in the area that you wish to move to, and place a window advert.
- Advertise in local papers.
- Join the MoveUK scheme if you want to move out of the area.
What should I do when I have identified a possible Exchange Partner? [Top]
The first thing to do is to visit each others home to establish whether you would both be happy to exchange. It is advisable to make a thorough inspection of the property you hope to exchange into, as you will have to accept the property as it is when it is vacated – the landlord will not normally accept responsibility for any repairs or defects which are a result of the outgoing tenants misuse or neglect of the property. You may therefore wish to agree in writing with the other party what items are to be left, or even take photographs of the internal condition of the property prior to exchange.
Pennine Housing needs to agree to the swap [Top]
You can only exchange if the respective landlords agree. If you want to proceed, you must at this stage both apply in writing to Pennine Housing 2000/your landlord for permission to exchange. Once you have done this you will be visited by your Housing Officer to check that everything is satisfactory. Pennine will also liaise with any other landlord involved with the exchange.
Can permission to exchange be refused? [Top]
We, or the landlord of the person you are swapping with, may refuse consent if:
- An eviction notice has been served.
- Either of the homes is too large or small for the households who are involved with the swap.
- The home has been built or adapted for people with disabilities or is part of a group of special needs accommodation and the swap would result in the home being occupied by someone without those needs.
- If you are in arrears with you rent your landlord can withhold consent for the exchange to take place until the arrears are cleared.
- The landlord is a housing association, trust or charity which lets only to certain groups of people in need and the proposed new tenant does not qualify.
Once your written application has been received, we have 6 weeks to assess it and notify you in writing of our decision. If permission is granted, then both parties must agree on the date the exchange is to take place and confirm this with their landlord.
You will be invited to attend your local housing office with the tenant you are exchanging with to sign a Deed of Assignment. If you have a joint tenancy both tenants must attend. Once the Deed of Assignment has been signed you will be able to move. Through the terms of a mutual exchange you take on the same tenancy terms as the tenant you exchange with. Depending on what type of tenancy the person you are swapping with has this may mean that you will take on different rights. For more information speak to your local district office.
Please be aware [Top]
You must not go ahead with a swap without permission from your landlord as you will be putting your tenancy in jeopardy and could end up with no home at all.