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Let your house to Leicester council

What Leicester 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. Leicester runs "Letting schemes (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze)".

We work with local landlords to offer secure, long-term lets to people in housing need; schemes are free to use with no commission or set up costs. Since 2003 more than 500 tenancies have been created and 90 percent were still in place in 2025. Email privatesectorofficer@leicester.gov.uk.

SchemeLetting schemes (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze)Typea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesTermPlatinum: full property management for 2 to 5 years; Gold: rent guaranteed for 12 monthsRentcompetitive rent (Silver comparison shows a 10% scheme rent reduction versus agent fees)IncentivesGold: rent guaranteed for 12 months, up to £1000 incentive payment, deposit guarantee worth 1 months' rent; Silver: deposit guarantee worth 1 months' rent and up to £250 incentive; Platinum: day-to-day repairs carried out at no cost to you, full tenancy management, financial help to bring the property up to standard recovered from ongoing paymentsWhat they wantfamily-sized properties for Platinum and Gold; properties of any size for Silver; single person accommodation such as one bedroom flats or HMOs referred to charities for similar arrangementsCouncil pagewww.leicester.gov.uk/housing/landlords/let-property-through-usChecked2026-09-28

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