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What Birmingham 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. Birmingham runs "Accommodation Finding Team landlord incentive packages".

The AFT connects landlords with homeless households, has worked with over 500 landlords, offers free viewings, matching, compliance inspections, referencing and inventories, and says: if your property meets the criteria, we may be able to let it within a week. The page returned 403 to the fetch tool but was readable with a browser user agent. Page last updated 6 August 2026.

SchemeAccommodation Finding Team landlord incentive packagesTypelandlord incentives: cash, deposit guarantee or rent in advance to house a council nomineeTermPeriodic TenancyIncentivesA one-time payment incentive for each property rented out via the AFT on a Periodic Tenancy; a rent and deposit agreement (a 5-week security indemnity deposit and cover of one month's rent); access to landlord insurance including Home Emergency cover and pet damage; a new enhanced rent guarantee scheme or insurance (the council pays for annual landlord insurance and provides rent payment guarantees)What they wantSelf-contained properties of all types and sizes in Birmingham, in a good state of repair with a well-maintained heating system, valid gas safety, electrical (NICEIC, valid ten years) and EPC certificatesCouncil pagewww.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20006/housing/2555/accommodation_finding_teChecked2026-09-28
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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: Birmingham council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.