How to apply for a home in Wakefield

To apply for a home in Wakefield, you need to register with Vico Homes Homesearch.

You can then bid for a home with Leeds Federated, another Housing Association or the council on the Vico Homes Homesearch website.

Choice Based Lettings

Vico Homes Homesearch is a Choice Based Lettings system. This means that you have the chance to ‘bid’ on one of our homes, regardless of where you live in Wakefield. Choice Based Lettings can improve your chances of moving to an area you want and they open up better opportunities for everyone.

Lettings Policy

We work to a Lettings Policy across all our homes. The Policy explains who we can let our homes to.

Local Lettings Plan

For some of our homes, we have a Local Lettings Plan – this is an agreement between the council and us, which includes extra criteria to our Lettings Policy about who can move into certain homes. A Local Lettings Plan usually covers new build homes and is in place temporarily to help new communities flourish. It may include things like giving priority to people who already live in the area etc.

We currently only have one Local Lettings Plan in Wakefield, which is listed below. If you’d like to apply for a home in one of those areas you must meet the criteria on the relevant Local Letting Plan: