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Let your house to Central Bedfordshire council

What Central Bedfordshire 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. Central Bedfordshire runs "Let's Rent (private lettings service)".

'We will act as your agent' with a 'highly experienced property management team'. Let's Rent is described as a scheme to match families and private rented accommodation to stop them becoming homeless. A 2016 lease-for-landlords PDF (indexed as offering management for 2 to 10 years with guaranteed monthly income) returned 404, so the lease option is unconfirmed.

SchemeLet's Rent (private lettings service)Typemanagement scheme: the council lets and manages it for youIncentivesFour months rent assured with up to 6 months rent in advance; in-house arrears recovery; repairs call centre with out of hours service; help to bring your property to a safe and lettable standard; fully referenced tenants; financial grants available for some safety checks.Council pagewww.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/housing/services-landlordsChecked2026-09-28
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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.

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