Find a home

In this section of the site, you can find out about options to rent a home, rent a garage, swap homes or buy your CGA tenancy.

People looking for a new home in Preston and the surrounding area have three main options:

Finding a new home through the CGA's Select Move service

Visit the Select Move website

The Community Gateway Association's Select Move service helps people make their next move to a CGA home as quickly and easily as possible. Here's how it works:

Step 1 - The customer fills in an application form and registers with Select Move

Step 2 - They are put on a list (called a 'band') of people wanting to move home

Step 3 - Lists of homes to rent are published in the Select Move Property Shop, at the CGA's neighbourhood housing offices and on the Select Move website

Step 4 - The lists come out every two weeks on a Monday. From the date the list is published, customers have got nine days to show their interest in individual homes advertised.

Step 5 - After the closing date, the Select Move team looks at how many people have shown an interest in each home advertised.

If only one person has shown an interest in a property and they are suitable, they'll get an offer.

If more than one person is interested in a home, the customer who most closely matches the property requirements will get the offer.

If more than one person is still suitable, the person registered with Select Move the longest will be successful.