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Home ownership with Co-Ownership: Housing Support Collection

Events - Northern Ireland

Starting 04 Jul 2023 - 11:00 through to 04 Jul 2023 - 12:00

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Haley Couzens

A Money Guiders Northern Ireland event

Join the Money Guiders NI Network for an information session with Co-Ownership around household support for your service users.

About this event

This session focus on household support and is the first of our 3-event collection Money Guidance – Household Support. Co-ownership will deliver this session.

Co-ownership is a popular solution for many in Northern Ireland wishing to get on the property ladder but don’t have the capital required for a deposit. They can offer support if you have had affordability, employment, or debt issues. Since Co-Ownership was founded in 1978, they have helped over 30,000 people buy their first home, and they currently have over 10,000 Co-Owners.

In this session we will cover the options that are provided by Co-Ownership to support your service users in understanding their personal circumstances regarding home ownership. The 3 topics that we will cover are:

1. Co-Own: Choose your home, buy as much of it as you can afford. We help you with the rest.

2. Rent to Own: Find a new build. Rent it from us for up to 3 years after which time you buy it from us.

3. Co-Own for Over 55s’: Many people in later life find themselves living in a home that has become unsuitable due to a change in circumstances such as their family life, location, health or other issues. The trouble is that often their current house may not have the monetary value (equity) they need to buy their new home and getting a mortgage to cover the difference isn’t an option.

Who is leading the session?

Niall McNulty

Learning Outcomes

Attendees will gain insight into how they where they can signpost or refer customers to appropriate sources of information on renting, home ownership and housing advice.

Who should attend?

All money guidance practitioners who are supporting service users with difficult conversations and anyone offering guidance to improve the financial wellbeing. It is for practitioners who are dealing with, or might come into contact with, members of the public who may need support with housing options needs.

Links to the Money Guidance Competency Framework

This event is designed to help you improve your money guidance practice, developing skills, confidence and knowledge around a specific money related area. Everything that the Money Guiders programme offers centres around the Money Guidance Competency Framework - it's there to help you better understand the full breadth and depth of money related issues that fall outside of the regulated financial advice service sector - the things you talk to your customers about.

Accessibility

If you have accessibility requirements, please inform us when you register by emailing moneyguidersni@reed.com and we will do our best to meet them. Participants should always remember to keep their own client and customer details confidential and not disclose personal information about them.