Home Connections - choosing your home
Welcome to Haringey's choice-based lettings guide
- Who can apply?
- Where you can view properties?
- How will it work?
- How you can bid for a home?
- Useful contacts
New information
Wondering how many points on average, you need to bid for a 3-bedroom property or to get a property in the area you'd like to live in?
We have devised a new Home Connections information sheet, called 'Home Connections Statistics', in the attached files section of this page - it contains useful facts on how to bid for a property as of September 2007.
This information will be regularly updated.
Who can apply?
Anyone who is registered and active on Haringey Council's Housing Register. You will need a User ID and PIN to bid for a property - we should have already sent you these if you are already registered. These will be six digit numbers.
|Back to topWhere can you view properties?
Properties are advertised on our Home Connections website which will be updated every week.
You can also view the properties in the local free papers, the Tottenham and Wood Green Independent and Muswell Hill and Crouch End Times, which are delivered on Thursday and Friday.
We can even send you the weekly property list by email. You can register for this service by emailing the Lettings Team at lettings@haringey.gov.uk.
|Back to topHow will it work?
If you see a property that you like, you can put in a bid for it from Wednesday to midnight on the following Monday.
You can bid for as many properties as you like and if you are short -listed, we will call the top five bidders on the Tuesday -and then invite them to view as many as three properties as soon as Wednesday. So please make sure we have your most recent phone number!
Then we will make an offer to the most successful bidder on Thursday, following an interview to validate your application and check all your documents - so please get your documents ready.
A list of the documents you need is in the attached files section below.
And you could be moving into your new home as soon as the following Monday. That's just one week from spotting the property you like, bidding for it and accepting our offer.
|Back to topHow do you bid for a Home?
There are three different ways you can make your bid, by web, phone and text - make sure you have the property advert number, your User ID and PIN ready.
On the web
To view properties and bid for them online, you need to go to the Home Connections website, click on 'I am already registered' and then enter your six digit user ID and PIN.
By phone
You will be assisted by an interactive voice recognition system when you bid by phone. It's very easy to follow. You will need a touch-tone phone with a hash - # button. Dial 020 7974 2696 and choose the language you want to use. Enter your user ID number and PIN. Select 1 to start bidding for a new property and the interactive voice system will take you through.
|Back to topBy text
To bid by text enter your pin number and user ID followed by the property number you are bidding for with the hash sign # in between each number.
So if your user ID is 023456 and your PIN 020961 and you want to bid for two properties with the references 123456 and 555444, you should enter:
Bid#023456#020961#123456#555444
and text this to 07781 482 894.
|Back to topWe can help
Call us on on 020 8489 1000 if you need help or pop into one of our customer services centres or libraries - where a member of staff can give you advice or help you use a computer.
Our Re-Housing team can also explain anything about Home Connections you don't understand.
|Back to topHaringey Council’s new lettings policy
It is a legal requirement that every housing authority must have a published, accessible Lettings Policy.
We have been working on a new Lettings Policy since August 2006 and after undertaking a major consultation with a wide variety of individuals and groups, it is now completed. You can download a copy in the attached files section below.
|Back to top| Filename | Filetype | Size |
|---|---|---|
haringey home connections booklet.pdf  | 387K | |
| lettings policy 2006.pdf | 356K | |
validation documents needed.doc  | Word | 29K |
| homes for haringey letting standard.pdf | 322K | |
| somali home connections booklet.pdf | 363K | |
| turkish home connections booklet.pdf | 761K | |
| french home connections booket.pdf | 370K | |
| home connections statistics.pdf | 111K | |
| PDF documents require Adobe Acrobat reader. Please click here to download. | ||
Update MePage Last Updated: 6 August 2008
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- Housing > Housing advice
- Housing > Council housing
