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Let your house to Lewisham council

What Lewisham 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. Lewisham runs "Private-sector leasing scheme and private-managed accommodation scheme".

Properties are leased to house homeless families who need long-term accommodation; a sibling Get tenants through us section and a refugee resettlement leasing page also exist. Contact Private Sector Leasing on 020 8314 6733 or housingsupply@lewisham.gov.uk.

SchemePrivate-sector leasing scheme and private-managed accommodation schemeTypeleasing scheme: the council takes a lease and pays you as its landlordTermWe lease residential properties for three to nine yearsRentguaranteed rental income for the lease period, even if the property is empty; rent paid a month in advanceIncentivesguaranteed rent 52 weeks a year; no admin, letting or management fees; professional housing management service (PSL); property inspection; guaranteed vacant possession when the lease endsWhat they wantproperties in good, habitable condition with approved gas, electrical and EPC certificates and a valid HomeCare 200 boiler and heating repair contract or equivalentCouncil pagelewisham.gov.uk/myservices/housing/landlords/get-tenants-through-us/leChecked2026-09-28

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