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Let your house to Portsmouth council

What Portsmouth 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. Portsmouth runs "Private Rented Sector Access Schemes (Rent it Right Leasing Scheme)".

Council page: the Private Rented Sector Access Team manages various schemes with landlords who have signed up, assesses and approves tenants, and is a single point of contact; email Housing.Supply@Portsmouthcc.gov.uk. Scheme detail comes from the council's own Rent it Right site (rentitright.co.uk/leasing-scheme, 023 9283 4126) which returned no readable content, so those figures are from its search snippet.

SchemePrivate Rented Sector Access Schemes (Rent it Right Leasing Scheme)Typea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesIncentivesGuaranteed income with no hidden charges and no management fees; the council can take on day-to-day repairs for a fee deducted from payments (Rent it Right); the Access Team fills your property quickly and ensures rent is paid when dueWhat they wantGreatest demand is for two bedroom properties but any size in the Portsmouth area is considered; self-contained and unfurnished; valid gas safety, EPC and ideally an up-to-date electrical certificate (Rent it Right)Council pagewww.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/housing/landlords/private-rented-sectorChecked2026-09-28
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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.

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