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Let your house to St Albans City and council

What St Albans City and 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. St Albans City and runs "Mosaic Lettings".

Mosaic Lettings 'works on behalf of St Albans City and District Council to find good homes in the private rented sector for local people'. The landlord keeps the tenancy, gets free tenant background checks and 'the final say on who moves into your property', and submits properties through an online form.

SchemeMosaic LettingsTypelandlord incentives: cash, deposit guarantee or rent in advance to house a council nomineeIncentives'Cash Incentives up to £10,000 per property depending on the size and location'; deposit bond of £2,500; free rent guarantee insurance; 'Void property cover - we will cover the rent for up to 2 months if the accommodation is void'; free property inspections, check-in and check-out inventories and end-of-tenancy cleaning; 'no monthly charges or tenancy set-up costs'What they wantIncentive varies by size and location; no property types statedCouncil pagewww.stalbans.gov.uk/mosaic-lettingsChecked2026-09-28
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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: St Albans City and council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.