Bid for housing | Islington Council (2024)

How to bid on vacant properties

1. You need to be on the council housing registerand have 120 points or more to bid for council and housing association properties.Find outhow we allocate housing based on your needsusing the points system.
2. We advertise vacant properties every week on the Home Connections website. Bidding opens on Thursdays and closes Sundays at midnight.
3. We will let you know what size property you can bid for, and give you a user ID and pin number that you need to bid.

We allocate housing in line with our housing allocation scheme - read the full scheme from the 'useful documents' section.

Bid for a property

You can bid for properties on the Home Connections website from Thursday until midnight on Sunday every week.

Bid online

You can also bid through the Home Connection app on your smartphone or tablet.

• Home Connection app for Apple
• Home Connection app for Android on Google Play

You may not see recent changes to your points or priority straight away. If you think that your points are incorrect, or you should be able to bid on a property but can't, contact us on 020 7527 4140.

If you have any questions, contact us onrehousing@islington.gov.uk.

What to do if your bid is successful

If you are told that your bid is successful, you must give us the documents we need within 48 hours from when we ask for them. This is so we can check your application.

If you do not give us the documents in time, you will not get the property.

If bid for a property or attend a viewing and we don't contact you within seven days, you have not been successful. We update property detailsoften. You can check the status of the listing to see if your bid was successful.

Documents we need

You must give us these documents within 48 hours of us confirming your successful bid.

• Proof of identity (ID) for all the people moving in with you - either a birth certificate or passport.

• Proof that you are still living at the address you applied from – copies of recent official letters, bank statements, utility bills sent to your current home.

We may also ask forproof:

• that you have been asked to leave your home – a copy of your 'notice seeking possession'

• of your immigration status.

We may also carry out a home visit.

Numbers of properties in each area of Islington

Use these maps to see the numbers of each type of council and housing association property that exists in the borough. These are not numbers of available properties.

• One bedroom

• Two bedrooms

• Three bedrooms

• Four or more bedrooms.