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• Dealing with mortgage arrears

  What happens if you miss a mortgage payment, including how to agree a repayment plan with your lender so you can pay your mortgage in smaller amounts.

• Renting privately

  Renting privately If you get a ‘section 21’ eviction notice If you get a ‘section 8’ eviction notice If you're being evicted because you asked for repairs Repossession by your landlord's mortgage lender

• Rent arrears

  Overview and content list for rent arrears. Get help and advice on dealing with rent arrears, eviction and what to do if you're taken to court.

• Paying rent

  Paying rent Get help with the cost of renting privately Dealing with rent arrears Check if your landlord can increase your rent Challenging a rent increase

• Problems with selling your home - delayed completion and lease options contracts

  Information about 'exchange with delayed completion' and 'lease options' contracts, covering what they are, the risks involved and other options that may be available to people trying to sell their home

• Support for mortgage interest (SMI)

  Find out if you can get SMI, how to apply and how other changes in your life will affect your SMI payments

• Help dealing with mortgage debts

  Different options which might be available to help clear your mortgage debt and pay back the money you owe to your lender.

• If you want to sell your home and rent it back

  Check the risks of using sale and rent back schemes and the rules firms must follow.

• Challenging a rent increase

  Find out if you can challenge your section 13 rent increase for free at a tribunal and check what evidence you need to send with your application.

• Eviction for rent arrears

  Details of the various types of possession orders that a judge can grant a landlord in order to evict their tenant