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Let your house to Luton council

What Luton 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. Luton runs "Incentive payments for private sector landlords (Find Your Own Home) and Private Sector Lease (PSL) for temporary accommodation".

Landlords can receive a cash incentive for providing properties under an assured periodic tenancy, or the council will lease your habitable property for 3 years with guaranteed rent, using it for temporary accommodation under a Luton Council TA licence. Landlords must hold gas safety, EICR, EPC and Legionella certification.

SchemeIncentive payments for private sector landlords (Find Your Own Home) and Private Sector Lease (PSL) for temporary accommodationTypea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesTermPSL: 3 years; incentive scheme: assured periodic tenancyRentPSL: guaranteed rent for three years with annual rent uplift; APT scheme: rent uplift based on tenant's affordabilityIncentivesAPT scheme: £1,000 (1 bed), £2,000 (2 bed), £3,000 (3 bed), £4,000 (4 bed) plus first month's rent and 5 weeks' deposit; PSL: incentive £2,000 (2 bed), £3,000 (3 bed), £4,000 (4 bed) plus bond of £1,620, £1,938 or £2,215What they wantParticularly interested in two, three and four bedroom habitable propertiesCouncil pagewww.luton.gov.uk/housing/housing-options-support/find-your-own-home-luChecked2026-09-28

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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.

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