After you've joined the housing register, you can make a bid to let us know you're interested in an advertised council or housing association property.
Homemove is our choice-based lettings service, which lets you tell us which advertised properties you're interested in.
This is called bidding, even though no money is involved. Placing a bid on a property shows you're interested in it.
Before you can bid, you need to:
Once you've joined the housing register and received your Homemove Sussex number, the basic steps are:
You can log into Homemove to view all the bids you've placed.
If you need help making a bid you can:
If you get an offer to move into a property you bid on, you'll normally only have a short time to accept.
If you don't accept, you may continue to bid on other properties depending on your circumstances. You can find more about what happens if you refuse an offer in our housing allocations policy.
If you're already on the housing register and need to tell us your circumstances have changed, you can log into the homemove applicant portal.
Find useful information on how to report a change of circumstances.