Become a leaseholder

If you buy a flat or maisonette via the Right to Buy or Right to Acquire schemes, or a percentage of one under the New Build Homebuy scheme, you will automatically become a leaseholder.

Around 360 of the properties owned and managed by Wakefield and District Housing are leasehold. Leasehold properties include maisonettes, flats and apartments, some of which are high-rise blocks.

WDH is responsible for maintaining the structure and exterior of these buildings as a whole, including areas everyone uses, like halls and stairways.

As a leaseholder you will need to pay service charges – payments that go towards what we spend maintaining the communal areas of your building.