Council bidding

[Grey18]

Good afternoon.

So me, my partner and baby have been on the housing list band C for a year and a half. (Currently living with the in-laws). We have started coming in the top 10 the last few weeks. We had been coming between 21-50 for the whole time before then.

I was wondering if anyone has been in the council bidding system and how long it took to get housed once you got in the top 10.

I am due to go back to work in a weeks time (typical) so wanted to know a rough time so that we can start planning as we will both be working full time when we do move.

TIA

I don't know that there's an answer to this. My DS is bidding, and was number 4 and 5 on his last 2 bids. It depends on how many properties become vacant.

It also depends on who's above you. We were in the single figures for just a week then got to number three and the two in front of us both fell through - maybe they both said no, maybe the HA rejected them (they can do that as an HA eg if you're antisocial etc), I dunno, but we got it a couple of days later. Good luck! You're closer now, anyway!

Thanks for your replies. There's on average 2-3 properties that we can bid on every week.

I think ive gone into a bit of a panic because we've jumped from between 21-50 to 6-10 in the space of a few weeks.

I'm over the moon that we're getting really close now, but the not knowing of when I'm going to get that call is stressing me out