| Comment | Right to Buy was a terrible, terrible policy and it won't be returning to Scotland any time soon.
Having said that, HAs can and do sell off properties of their own accord, so there's no harm in asking them. If you're in a block of tenement flats that's already largely been sold off then they might be keen, because I know some HAs are more than glad to be getting rid of maintenance responsibility for some older properties that are becoming a liability, and then investing the money in newer stock.
But one of the issues with Right to Buy is that it's created the administrative nightmare of having blocks of flats with mixed HA/private flats, forcing HAs to have arms-length factoring organisations contracting their own services, so an HA won't generally be keen on selling off individual flats. |
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