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Let your house to Stevenage council

What Stevenage 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. Stevenage runs "Next Step Lets Scheme".

A free tenant-finding and tenancy set-up and monitoring service run by the council's Housing Supply Team to prevent homelessness; the landlord keeps the tenancy. No guaranteed rent, deposit bond or cash incentive is stated on the page. Contact housingsupplyteam@stevenage.gov.uk or 01438 242909.

SchemeNext Step Lets SchemeTypemanagement scheme: the council lets and manages it for youIncentivesFree service: tenant affordability checks, right to rent checks, property checks, viewings, 'Photographic inventory, tenancy agreement and other legal documents', tenancy monitoring at 3, 6 and 9 months, 'Exit inspections and deposit resolution'What they wantLandlords register any property via an online form; no property types statedCouncil pagestevenage.gov.uk/housing/homelessness-and-housing-advice/next-step-letChecked2026-09-28
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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: Stevenage council, read 2026-09-28. Schemes open and close with demand; confirm with the council before relying on any figure.