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Housing advice for Northern Ireland

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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

Lots of people are struggling to manage with housing issues because of the coronavirus crisis. Check out our Coronavirus section for information and advice on common problems, including help to pay your rent and mortgage, eviction and repairs.

Do it yourself
Do it yourself

These tools, calculators and letter templates will help you sort out your housing problems.

Budgeting and money tools

Use these calculators to work out where you can make savings and how long it will take you to repay your debts.

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Write a letter

These templates can help you figure out how to write a letter about your housing problem. You'll need to save the templates to your desktop before you can use them.  You should then open them with Adobe Reader XI.

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Jargon Buster

Letters about your housing problems can be confusing.  This list explains some of the more complicated terms that might be in your letters in simple language.  

Please let us know if there are any other terms you'd like us to include on this page. 

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Tools for homebuyers and homeowners

These calculators will help you work out what you can afford to borrow, what your stamp duty will be and how your payments will change if the interest rate increases.   

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Tools to cope with life changing events

Big life changes, like a new baby, redundancy or retirement, can really disrupt your financial security.  These tools from the Money Advice Service should help you budget and plan for new life events. 

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Videos to help with your housing problems

These videos might help you get to grips with some of your housing problems

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