Our Homeownership team
We provide services to over 6,000 homeowners. Our Homeownership team will be happy to help should you have any questions.
Our Homeownership team can:
- Help you with questions about your lease or freehold transfer.
- Provide information about the services you receive.
- Answer questions about rent, service charges or other charges.
- Provide legal information packs when you are selling your home.
- Support with extending your lease
- Help with applications for shared ownership remortgages and changes of ownership.
- Deal with requests to make alterations or improvements to your home.
Use our easy postcode search tool to find out who your homeownership officer is in your area.
If you have any questions you can contact our homeownership team on 0300 123 8080 or email our team at homeowner@livewest.co.uk.
Shared Owners Handbook
The Shared Ownership Virtual Panel (SOVP) have assisted with and scrutinised a new Shared Owners Handbook, designed with and for shared owners. You can view the new handbook here.
If you have any feedback or items you would like to see included in future, please let us know.
Common questions
Repairs and maintenance
As a shared owner, your lease or freehold transfer explains our joint responsibilities.
Find out more about repairs and maintenance
Improvements and alterations
As a shared owner or leaseholder, you may need our permission to make improvements or alterations to your home.
Find out more about improvements and alterations
What you pay for
Find out more about what you pay for and how these charges are calculated.
Find out more about what you pay for
Selling your home
You can sell your shared ownership home at any time. Find out how to sell your shared ownership home.
Find out more about selling your home
Buying more shares
As a shared owner, you are able to buy more shares in your home. This is called staircasing. Find out how you could buy up to 100% of your shared ownership home.
Find out more about buying more shares
More Information
- Remortgages and transfers
- Lease extensions
- Section 20 consultations
- Administration fees
- Subletting your home
- Funding support for shared owners
- There is also a lot of useful information for residential leaseholders on the LEASE website. This is a government funded independent service.