Choosing your new home is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. We aim to help you choose the property you want, and so we advertise our properties, rather than have a traditional waiting list.

You can register online, or direct with our Ashington office and when you have your registration number you can take the first steps towards choosing your new home.

Once registered, and if you see a home advertised that you like, simply let us know and we will consider you for it.  Please note that our system works in the same way for new applicants and existing tenants who want to transfer.

Happy hunting!

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Registering

You need to register with us before you can apply for a house - but registration is a very quick and easy process.

All we need is your name, address and date of birth, and the names and dates of birth of everyone who will move with you, and we ask you to sign a few simple statements to confirm that you are eligible for housing under our scheme.

Registration is completed 'whilst you wait' at our Ashington office (or you can apply by post, telephone, or online, although these methods will take longer as we will post out a short form for you to sign and return).

As a registered homehunter, you will receive a guide to  homehunt^® which will include information about how to apply for advertised houses.

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Applying

Once registered you can apply for any property that is advertised (as long as the property is suitable - e.g. it would not result in overcrowding, or there are no restrictions on who can apply stated in the advertisement - for example, ground floor flats for those of retirement age and above).

When you see an advert for a property you are interested in, you should apply for it by telling us your registration number and the property's address. You can do this in person at our Ashington office, or by phone, by post, or online - but you must do this before the closing date and time specified in the advert. If you have a Priority Pass , it will be recognised automatically.

You can apply for as many advertised properties as you wish at any one time. However, if you qualify for more than one offer at the same time, we will assume that the property you apply for first is your first choice, and so on, in the order you chose to apply. If you qualify for an offer on one house, we will disregard any later applications you have made, so the order in which you apply could be very important to you.

Similarly, if there is nothing you like advertised, or perhaps it is not a convenient time to move, there is no need to apply. All we ask is that you confirm once a year that you wish to remain Registered with us for housing.

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Downloadable homehunt Guide

You can find all the information stated above and more by viewing or downloading the following file: Arch Housing Association (North East England).pdf

To view this file, you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5 or above, it is freely available for use and can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com

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Data Protection:

The homehunt^® Arch Housing Association service is operated by Arch Housing Association, the data controller, whose registered office is at Unit 3, Esther Court, Wansbeck Business Park, Rotary Parkway, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 8QW. Information given by you in using the service, or obtained by the Company from a third party in accordance with the Company's stated homehunt^® policy that is relevant to your application, will be held by the Company and used solely for the purposes of operating the Company's homehunt^® policy, and for providing the Company with statistical information relevant to the Company's business development, service improvement or reporting of its activity as a business. The Company will not disclose any information without your written consent, unless it is required to do so by law, or by its regulators.