Peabody’s Pan London “Selections”

Posted on March 25, 2008
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Peabody Housing Trust founded in 1862 is one of the largest RSL groups working in London. Peabody has its own Act of Parliament setting out its objective to work solely within London for the relief of poverty. It owns or manages over 18,500 homes across 26 London boroughs and delivers a range of community regeneration programmes.

Working in Partnership with Home Connections, Peabody Housing Trust’s choice based lettings service, “Selections”, went live on 26 November. The system offers home seekers the opportunity to express an interest in the home of their choice by bidding on the web site using their band as currency. The Trust is offering a pan London opportunity to their customers wanting to move anywhere within their portfolio, the first RSL in London to do so.

Home seekers can view the full range of homes available and can apply to bid for any home of their choice for which they are eligible. The full suite of housing options will be available through the site with opportunities for social and open market Homebuy, intermediate rent and shared ownership in the very near future.

Jenny Scott Assistant Director of Peabody reported “during the first week homes were advertised across all 5 London sub regions. 549 people logged onto the Selections site and 311 bids were made for the 23 homes advertised. 40% of people bidding did so outside of Office hours, offering a 24 hour service to our customers.”

Visit selections.peabody.org.uk now

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