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Let your house to Cheshire East council

What Cheshire East 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. Cheshire East runs "Private Landlord Offer".

Only source is a council committee paper dated 21 October 2022 describing a two year pilot Private Landlord Offer with a single point of contact, pre-tenancy assessment and help with direct-to-landlord benefit payments, contact PRSliasonofficer@cheshireeast.gov.uk. The current Managing a tenancy information for landlords page and the homelessness guide do not mention it, so the pilot may have ended; treat as unconfirmed until the council replies.

SchemePrivate Landlord OfferTypelandlord incentives: cash, deposit guarantee or rent in advance to house a council nomineeRentaffordable rent basisIncentivesBond guarantee against tenant damage, rent in advance, a rent guarantee and additional incentives for participating properties, per the October 2022 cabinet appendix.What they wantA range of properties for households referred by the Housing Options Service.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: Cheshire East council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.