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Let your house to Mid Sussex council

What Mid Sussex 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. Mid Sussex runs "Tenant Matching Service (standard and enhanced)".

The Housing Options Team matches landlords with tenants and provides a deposit bond, inventory and void cover, with an enhanced tier adding 6 months' rent in advance; the landlord keeps the tenancy. A 2018 Sussex Express article described a Mid Sussex Private Sector Leasing scheme with two to five year leases, but the current landlords page does not mention it. Contact prs@midsussex.gov.uk or 01444 477248.

SchemeTenant Matching Service (standard and enhanced)Typelandlord incentives: cash, deposit guarantee or rent in advance to house a council nomineeIncentivesStandard: no fees or commission, void period covered from tenancy offer to start date, 5-week deposit bond, free professional inventory, affordability checks, tenant sustainment. Enhanced: 6-week deposit bond, 6 months' rent in advance for eligible applicants, rent credits retained at tenancy end, two inspections in the first 6 monthsWhat they wantLandlords willing to offer longer tenancies to minimise void periodsCouncil pagewww.midsussex.gov.uk/housing-council-tax/information-for-landlordsChecked2026-09-28
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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: Mid Sussex council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.