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Let your house to Gloucester council

What Gloucester 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. Gloucester runs "Landlord Incentive Scheme".

Gloucester City Council has set up a scheme to help our clients find alternative accommodation in the private rented sector; the scheme page links a Landlord Incentive Scheme flyer and brochure (PDF). The council's 2024 news page says it matches landlords and prospective tenants and supports them throughout the tenancy, and has matched over 50 households. Contact stuart.dean@gloucester.gov.uk.

SchemeLandlord Incentive SchemeTypelandlord incentives: cash, deposit guarantee or rent in advance to house a council nomineeTerm12 month tenancyIncentivesFinancial incentives for a 12 month tenancy, including supporting the tenant's deposit and first month's rent, lump sum rent payments for self-contained accommodation and contributions towards insurance; free property health and safety inspectionCouncil pagewww.gloucester.gov.uk/housing/private-rented/private-rented-accommodatChecked2026-09-28
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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: Gloucester council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.