Accessible & Disability Homes
The House Shop offer a specialist accessibility category enabling adapted homes to be marketed directly to buyers looking for disability features.
Traditionally, owners of adapted properties who wish to sell and move on, have often had to decide to scrap or strip out the existing modifications in order to achieve a sale in the conventional market, significantly increasing the cost of moving home.
With our specialist category, owners of adapted homes with accessible features can now market such properties directly to the very buyers interested in purchasing those facilities, along with the home, therefore retaining the heavy investment made in the existing property.
Accessible Property & Adapted Homes For Sale
Properties listed with the following disabled-access features on our website are ‘flagged’ enabling buyers to search and find suitable homes for sale in the accessible category.
- Level access shower/wet room
- Ground floor (entrance level) bath or shower room
- Adapted kitchen (e.g. lowered working services)
- Wider-than-standard doorways
- Access to upper floor(s) via stairlift or through-the-ceiling lift
- Fixed or tracking ceiling hoist(s)
- Level or ramped access to the garden
We ask vendors to promote their homes by including these features as part of thier advertising with us.
Find Specially Adapted Properties For Sale
Use our The House Shop search to find properties for sale ideal for wheelchair users and accessible features
Definitions
Definitions
Wheelchair Accessible Property
- Off-street or unrestricted on-street parking.
- No steps between parking area and the entrance to the property, although there may be a slope.
- Level access to at least one entrance to the property. Entrance may incorporate access ramp or low threshold.
- Level access to all main living floor rooms.
- A WC or bathroom on the same level as the entrance to the property (or lift access to a WC on another floor).
- Flats in multi-storey blocks with suitable lift access.
Adapted Property
Adapted properties will contain fixed equipment or adaptations designed to meet the needs of someone with a physical or other impairment such as ANY of the following:
Adapted properties will contain fixed equipment or adaptations designed to meet the needs of someone with a physical or other impairment such as ANY of the following:
- Adapted bathroom (e.g. bath with electrically operated seat, walk-in bath, fixed or drop-down handrails etc.)
- Level access shower/wet room
- Ground floor (entrance level) bath or shower room
- Adapted kitchen (e.g. lowered working services)
- Wider-than-standard doorways
- Access to upper floor(s) via stairlift or through-the-ceiling lift
- Fixed or tracking ceiling hoist(s)
- Level or ramped access to the garden
Positive about Accessible Property
The Accessible Property Register
- Specialises in promoting accessible and adapted property]
- Accept adverts for property for sale and rent (UK adverts are free of charge to private individuals)]
- Promotes social housing and private residential property]
- Offers mainstream advertising options for all property]
- Can recommend approved estate agents in most parts of the country]
- Provides links and useful information relating to property and access]
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