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Let your house to Liverpool council

What Liverpool 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. Liverpool runs "Selective licence fee waiver for landlords assisting the council's homelessness duties".

Fee waiver only: no council page describing a leasing, guaranteed rent, management or cash incentive scheme was found, and the council's landlord pages are dominated by selective licensing. Contact privatesector.housing@liverpool.gov.uk for licensing; the Housing Options service is the route for the waiver.

SchemeSelective licence fee waiver for landlords assisting the council's homelessness dutiesTypelandlord incentives: cash, deposit guarantee or rent in advance to house a council nomineeIncentivesThere is no fee for a licence for landlords who assist the council to offer permanent accommodation to meet its homeless duties (full property licence fee otherwise £704). To access this discount you must be working directly with the council's Housing Options service to provide permanent accommodation for homeless people and families, or providing accommodation for homeless veteransWhat they wantpermanent accommodation for homeless people and familiesCouncil pageliverpool.gov.uk/business/licences-and-permits/landlord-licensing/seleChecked2026-09-28
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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: Liverpool council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.