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Let your house to Stockport council

What Stockport 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. Stockport runs "Landlord Incentive Scheme (Stockport Homes)".

'Our Landlord Incentive Scheme offers guaranteed rent, financial incentives and other benefits to private sector landlords.' Stockport Homes is the council's ALMO. stockport.gov.uk itself failed with a header overflow error on four attempts; a search snippet of the council's Empty to Plenty page says Stockport Homes and other housing providers run a social lettings scheme with guaranteed rental income where the provider repairs, lets and manages the property.

SchemeLandlord Incentive Scheme (Stockport Homes)Typea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesRentLocal Housing Allowance rate for the area the property is inIncentivesLandlord Incentive Payment equal to 2 months of the LHA rate; deposit covered; first month's rent paid; 12-month Local Housing Allowance shortfall payment; 3-month landlord rent guaranteeWhat they want'All types of properties are required'; properties in the North West area; assured shorthold tenancies for people threatened with homelessnessCouncil pagewww.stockporthomes.org/find-a-home/rent-a-home/landlord-incentive-scheChecked2026-09-28

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