This website offers comprehensive information and advice on a variety of housing issues.
Please browse our website first if you need advice or, alternatively, use our search facility to look for a particular topic or keyword.
If you can’t find information that you are looking for, use the form below to send us your questions.
Before you begin...
Please keep in mind that our email advice service is intended as:
GENERAL ADVICE ONLY - complex cases will need direct contact with an adviser, either by phone or face-to-face discussion
ONE-OFF SERVICE - if you need additional advice following our response, we will ask you to call our advice line
INITIAL CONTACT - if you have previously used our services, please get in touch with us over the phone.
Our average response time is 3 working days.
Please note that we can only respond to queries relating to housing in Northern Ireland as housing legislation in other parts of the UK differs from that in Northern Ireland.
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