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Bidding on a council or housing association home

After your application is assessed for a council home or a transfer, we’ll give you login details for our lettings service and let you know which properties for you can bid for.

In this section:

Bidding on properties

'Bidding' means you register your interest in a vacant property that will meet your household’s needs.

You can only bid on the type of properties of a size that you are eligible for. We may let you know in writing if there are certain types of properties that you won't be considered for, such as properties with stairs if you have a medical problem that means you need ground floor accommodation.

Properties will be advertised for six days every week (from Thursday to Tuesday). This is known as the ‘bidding cycle’. You can bid for up to three properties in each bidding cycle.

If you do not bid, we cannot consider you for any properties.

Likelihood of getting a property

There are not enough empty properties for us to help everybody on the housing register and transfer list, so placing a bid does not guarantee that you'll be offered the property.

We allocate properties by placing bidders in order of their banding priority. When you place your bid you'll be shown your bid position on the property shortlist.

You can bid on up to three properties in each bidding cycle.

Adapted or accessible homes

Very few council or housing association homes are suitable for applicants with disabilities or mobility problems.

This means it's important that these properties are let to households who really need them.

If you need a property of this type we would have awarded your application a ‘MOB’ code under the terms of our accessible housing register when your application was assessed.

Available properties that are suitable for applicants with disabilities or mobility problems will be clearly labelled on the Bedfordshire Homefinder property advert

Bids placed by applicants with 'MOB' codes will be prioritised on the property shortlists.

If you need help using the register or placing bids for available properties

Speak to our Allocations team, they will:

  • check and acknowledge you application
  • notify you of your priority in writing within 10 working days
  • issue you with a PIN and user ID so you can bid for properties
  • provide a number of options to enable you to bid for properties
  • assist you with the bidding process if you need it
  • contact successful bidders within five working days of the advert closing

Allocations Team
Telephone: 01582 546646