Positive overseas housing scheme

The overseas long-term relationship housing pilot has brought significant benefits for service families, allowing unmarried partners to accompany service personnel on certain overseas assignments. And the good...

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Building the future

The MOD is taking an important step towards improving SFA for families across the UK. The aim is simple: to provide modern, comfortable homes that better meet the needs of today’s service families. One of the ...

Gen up on capital gains

IF YOU’RE considering buying or have bought your own home it is wise to be mindful of the additional costs you could face. Liz Hart* from finance and accountancy firm Money Bee takes a look at capital gains ...

Fantastic foundations

The Defence Housing Strategy 2025 heralds the biggest transformation of Armed Forces accommodation in more than 50 years. It’s a plan about far more than just bricks and mortar and is set to create homes tha...

Raising the standard

There are early signs that the new Consumer Standard for families living in Service Families Accommodation (SFA) is helping to improve lives. When launched, it included a series of commitments and set a dead...

Green shoots on the home front

  BY CAT CALDER, AFF HOUSING SPECIALIST Habitual underinvestment, slow repairs and a lack of accountability have made military housing a longstanding source of frustration for many soldiers and Army fa...

Make yourself at home

Army housing is getting a much-needed makeover, with major investment in accommodation and more freedom for families to enhance the spaces they live in. But how far will you go to make your house feel like a ...

Pet policy change

Animal lovers now only need to tell the Pinnacle National Service Centre that they have a pet rather than asking for written permission to share their service quarter with a furry friend Permission only need...

Safeguard against property fraud

Homeowners in the military are being encouraged to sign up to a HM Land Registry scheme that alerts them if fraudsters attempt to take ownership of their property. Property Alert is a free service that allow...