Let your house to Plymouth council

Q: Does Plymouth council work with private landlords?

Yes. Plymouth runs "HouseLet, Repair and Rent, EasyLet" (a mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentives). Term: Ten year lease under the HouseLet Lease and Repair Scheme with Westcountry Housing (council newsletter). Rent: Rent in line with the Local Housing Allowance (EasyLet). Source: the council's own page, checked 2026-09-28.

What Plymouth 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. Plymouth runs "HouseLet, Repair and Rent, EasyLet".

The council page states it is currently not accepting new applications for EasyLet or Repair and Rent while it works through waiting lists. The council landlords page (plymouth.gov.uk/housing/privaterentedaccommodation/landlords) returned 403; its search snippet reads: lease your property to us at a guaranteed monthly rental, email communityconnections@plymouth.gov.uk with subject Houselet. The plymouth.gov.uk/houselet page returned 404. Empty homes team 01752 304235, EmptyHomes@plymouth.gov.uk.

SchemeHouseLet, Repair and Rent, EasyLetTypea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesTermTen year lease under the HouseLet Lease and Repair Scheme with Westcountry Housing (council newsletter)RentRent in line with the Local Housing Allowance (EasyLet)IncentivesRepair and Rent: loan up to £50,000 per unit with a 20% grant element, repaid from rental income, Plymouth Homes 4 Let manages the project and letting; HouseLet: guaranteed rental income including void periods and interest-free renovation loans up to £10,000 (council newsletter)What they wantOne, two, three or four bedroom properties, especially a two or three bedroom house or flat (council newsletter); under-occupied buildings such as HMOs (council landlords page snippet)Council pagewww.plymouth.gov.uk/selling-letting-and-assistance-empty-homesChecked2026-09-28

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