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Let your house to Elmbridge council

What Elmbridge 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. Elmbridge runs "Rental Support Scheme".

Works like a letting agency but is run by the council with free support and incentives. Council news page (2024, returned 403 on fetch, quoted in search snippet) adds up to 1 month's rent in advance, a deposit guarantee of 6 weeks' rent, guaranteed rent payments for an initial 12 months to new landlords, and over 150 tenancies let through the scheme. Contact rss@elmbridge.gov.uk or 01372 474 474.

SchemeRental Support SchemeTypea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesIncentivesRent in advance, deposit guarantees, incentive payments, free tenancy agreements, free inventories and check-outs, aftercare service with ongoing support throughout the tenancy, no introduction feesWhat they wantAll types of properties; council news (2024) says particularly 1, 2 and 3 bedroom affordable homesCouncil pagewww.elmbridge.gov.uk/housing/housing/help-private-landlords/housing/hoChecked2026-09-28
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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: Elmbridge council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.