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Let your house to Barnet council

What Barnet offers private landlords who want the council as their tenant or their letting agent, in the council's own words, with the page to apply on.

Yes. Barnet runs "Let2Barnet (Barnet Homes) and Bumblebee Lettings".

Let2Barnet, run by Barnet Homes (the council's ALMO), helps you find tenants and manage your property, with packages to choose from; its sister company Bumblebee Lettings is described as another Private Sector Leasing service offering Guaranteed Rents, Property Management and Let Only schemes. Contact let2barnet@barnethomes.org, 020 8359 4761.

SchemeLet2Barnet (Barnet Homes) and Bumblebee LettingsTypea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesTermBumblebee Lettings: 1 to 5 year schemes available for guaranteed rentsIncentivesgreat incentives, including guaranteed rent; a complete management service; Bumblebee: rent paid on time, no voids, no rent arrears for guaranteed rents schemeWhat they wantThere is no limit to the number of properties you can let through us and we accept homes of all sizesCouncil pagewww.barnet.gov.uk/housing/private-housing/landlords-barnet/rent-your-pChecked2026-09-28

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How these schemes work

Councils have a duty to house people they accept as homeless and a shortage of their own stock, so many lease or manage private landlords' houses instead. The common shapes are a lease of three to five years where the council becomes your tenant and pays rent whether the house is occupied or not, a management arrangement where the council lets and looks after it for you, or a one-off incentive (a cash payment, a deposit guarantee, rent in advance) for taking a council-nominated tenant on a normal tenancy. Terms, rent levels and what they want vary by council and change with demand, so treat every page here as a pointer to the council's own page, not a quote.

Before you sign

Check the same things you would for any let: whether the address is inside an HMO Article 4 area if the council plans to house more than one household, which licensing applies, and what the LHA rate is, since many schemes pay at or just under it. The free HMO Article 4 checker tests any postcode; Kerbio shows all three on the Rightmove listing before you buy.

See this on every Rightmove listing.Kerbio puts the Article 4 answer, licensing, the council's HMO register and sold prices on the Rightmove, Zoopla or OnTheMarket page itself. Free for 7 days, then £39 a month.

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Source: Barnet council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.