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Durham County Council

Unitary authority · North East

Freeholder status

Housing stock transferred - see below for who now acts as landlord

County Durham Housing Group, now trading as Livin - large-scale voluntary transfer of around 18,400 homes completed April 2015, bringing together the former Dale and Valley Homes, Durham City Homes and East Durham Homes ALMOs under one landlord

Leaseholder / major-works contact

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