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Let your house to Maldon council
What Maldon 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. Maldon runs "Financial help to get a private rented property".
A rent in advance and deposit scheme paid by the council to the landlord on the tenant's behalf; the tenant must repay it to the Council through an agreed repayment plan with 0% interest. The page is tenant-facing and there is no lease, guaranteed rent or landlord-facing incentive.
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.
Source: Maldon council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.