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Let your house to Wigan council

What Wigan 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. Wigan runs "Ethical Lettings Agency (Lease Management Service and Tenant Matching Service)".

The in-house Ethical Lettings Agency 'currently manages a portfolio of around 90 properties'. Landlords register through the Tenant Matching Scheme form or the Landlord Hub; lease enquiries go through the Private Renting Assistance Scheme.

SchemeEthical Lettings Agency (Lease Management Service and Tenant Matching Service)Typea mix of leasing, guaranteed rent and incentivesTermlong-term lease agreement (length not stated)Renta guaranteed, uninterrupted monthly income under the leaseIncentivesLease Management Service: 'properties are taken onto a long-term lease agreement with the Council. The ELA Team provides full management services and a guaranteed, uninterrupted monthly income.' Tenant Matching Service: a Bond Guarantee in lieu of a cash deposit covering damage or arrears up to 5 weeks' rent and a £100 payment once the tenancy begins; rent in advance is charged to the tenant except in mitigating circumstances.What they wantProperties with current gas safety certificate, EICR and EPC; tenants put forward within 5 working days.Council pagewww.wigan.gov.uk/Business/Property-and-Land/Private-Landlords/Ethical-Checked2026-09-28

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