News & Blog

Many of our customers pay their rent by Direct Debit. It’s very simple to set up and means that your rent payments are made automatically.

We will soon be launching a new digital platform – called Our Voice – which will make it easier than ever to share your views with us.

If you want the quickest way to get in touch with us try Chatabot, our new digital assistant. Chatabot is our friendly digital assistant and will be on hand when you log onto our website to try and answer any common questions you may have 24/7 – everything from information on pets to the latest […]

The 14th annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships, taking place across England from 8th February, will showcase the impact apprenticeships can have on communities, local businesses and regional economies and how they all benefit from investing into apprenticeships. Our Community Investment Team are committed to working with customers who are seeking to access employment, training, education and […]

Data Privacy Day is an international effort to empower individuals and encourage organisations to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust. This year, we are promoting the idea of “Own Your Privacy” by learning more about how to help protect your valuable data that is online. One simple thing you can do is to update your […]

A film featuring Bill Moss, a customer from our Openshaw Court scheme, was aired as part of a series of short films screened by HOME Manchester to coincide with LGBT History Month. The series “˜Real to Real – Personal Tales from the LGBT Community’ was shown on Thursday 25 February. The film “˜Lifesolation’ was produced […]

Most rents are changing from April 2021. Look out for your rent notification letter over the next few days. Get answers to your questions about rent changes. Rents will generally go up by 1.5% from April 2021 which works out at £1.38pw on a weekly rent of £92. We have set new rents based on government […]

Last year we launched our Community Resilience Fund, aimed at providing much needed financial support to charities, community groups and social enterprises to implement their COVID-19 recovery strategies to enable them to become more resilient to future economic setbacks. 13 community groups and charitable organisations have already received a share of the initial £100,000 fund. […]

Great Places Housing Group has issued the final £70m retained portion of its existing £345M bond due in 2042. Following a day of group and individual Investor presentations, the sale was priced at a spread of 120 bps and an all-in cost of 1.998 per cent. Great Places were supported by NatWest Markets, Savills and […]