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Let your house to Canterbury council

What Canterbury 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. Canterbury runs "Canterbury Lettings".

Canterbury Lettings is a social lettings agency, 'A service provided by Canterbury City Council', that matches landlords' properties to local tenants who need help accessing rented housing. Guaranteed rent is only in the Enhanced Full Management tier. The council page at canterbury.gov.uk/housing/canterbury-lettings links to the agency site. Contact John Chilcott, Social Lettings Agency Project Manager, 01227 910 656.

SchemeCanterbury LettingsTypea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesIncentivesTenant Find at 8% of first month's rent; Full Management at 10% of monthly rent; Enhanced Full Management at 12% of monthly rent which adds guaranteed rent. All managed lets include inventory, tenancy agreement, gas safety certificate, help setting up utilities and an anti-social behaviour hotline.Council pagecanterburylettings.co.uk/contact/Checked2026-09-28
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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: Canterbury council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.