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Let your house to Bromsgrove council

What Bromsgrove 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. Bromsgrove runs "Step Up private tenancy scheme".

Step Up helps families to start renting privately by working with landlords to find suitable properties, and by helping the tenant with the up-front costs of renting; the landlord keeps the tenancy. Contact 01527 881288.

SchemeStep Up private tenancy schemeTypelandlord incentives: cash, deposit guarantee or rent in advance to house a council nomineeIncentivesDeposit Guarantee Bond in case of damage or rent arrears (to the value of one month's rent, not subject to Deposit Protection legislation); payment of rent in advanceWhat they wantSuitable properties for families starting to rent privatelyCouncil pagewww.bromsgrove.gov.uk/business/landlords/step-up-private-tenancy-schemChecked2026-09-28
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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: Bromsgrove council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.