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Let your house to Crawley council

What Crawley 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. Crawley runs "Private Sector Leasing scheme".

The council covers accidental damage; landlords pay for structural and exterior repairs and other maintenance, with repairs under £200 done immediately and recharged and larger ones quoted and agreed. Contact privatesectorleasing@crawley.gov.uk; a landlord information document is linked from the page.

SchemePrivate Sector Leasing schemeTypeleasing scheme: the council takes a lease and pays you as its landlordTermbetween three and five yearsIncentivesGuaranteed rent throughout the term of the lease even if your property is empty, rent for 52 weeks of the year; a full management service; lease set-up package valued over £450 (gas and electric safety checks, asbestos survey and EPC at no cost); property returned in good repair accounting for fair wear and tear.What they wantSelf-contained, unfurnished units in reasonable decorative condition, clean and safe to HHSRS standards.Council pagecrawley.gov.uk/housing/private-housing/private-sector-leasing-schemeChecked2026-09-28
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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: Crawley council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.