A council is apply to private landlords to help it solve its housing crisis.
Peterborough council says it’s looking for family sized properties to support households which have become homeless and require temporary housing while suitable permanent accommodation is secured.
It says properties will be taken on lease for five years, with a rolling break clause should landlords need to exit the agreement early.
Rents will be paid monthly in advance, equal to the current Local Housing Allowance rates plus 10 per cent.
Rents will be reviewed annually in line with changes to the local housing allowance and the council will manage properties at no additional cost to the landlord.
The council will take responsibility for all repairs and statutory compliance and at the end of the contract the property will be returned “in a fit and rentable state”.
A council statement pledges: “By allowing us to rent your property, you’ll be guaranteed payment on your rental for as long as the time-period is contracted for.
Allowing the Council to rent your property is an avenue that many landlords don’t know about but is a safe and secure opportunity for you to gain consistent income without the potential stress.”
To be eligible all properties must have vacant possession and be of a good standard of repair and have a valid gas safety and electrical testing certificate.
All properties will require a valid Energy Performance Certificate rated 'E' or above, and landlords will be required to have buildings insurance to cover structural faults/repairs, flood, fire and other disasters.
The council adds: “If you have an empty property that requires works to bring it up to a lettable standard, we may be able to undertake the works required to bring them up to standard. Cost of works would be recovered through a reduced rent spread out over the lease term.”
A council spokesperson says: “We want to encourage as many private landlords to get in contact as possible, this will allow us to help more people that are in a tricky situation and need accommodation.
“We are looking for housing that covers the full breadth of the city, from two-bedroom homes to much larger properties. We understand that for many landlords, this may be seen as risky, but Peterborough council will take care of all matters and simply hand you the keys back at the end of your contract.”
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No way would I let to my local council who are also begging landlords for homes. I had a part refurbished property empty for 2 years due to being unable to complete due to covid restrictions. My council then charged me 150% council tax because it was empty. I appealed on the grounds that it was empty due to circumstances beyond my control. They just said rules is rules, hard luck. Now they want me to help them out!!! What a joke.
Chickens coming home to roost comes to mind.
Catherine- couldn’t agree more!! They pay 10% extra plus do repairs. Time look at small print but if I had one in that area I’d consider.
It is only the local LHA rate plus 10% Dave, depending on what that rate is probably won't be anywhere near market rate. If it was market rate less 10% then we are talking. They would not want that as it would mean they are exposed just like a current Private LL.
On the one hand the beat us with the sticks of C Tax & SL whilst with the other hand they hold out a mouldy sugar cube!
Ha Ha, agreed. Preston council offered me a ten year contract with no rent except we will tidy the place up..! But before they moved forward with it the scruffy little swine who is about to be evicted needed to clear the council tax he had not paid for two years? If it was me with an empty house they would be all over me for the council tax and court orders etc. Hypocrisy of the highest order....
William Williams. I agree with you the System is being milked we never got anything for nothing from anybody had to fen for ourselves.
The have now created single Parent Families because its a much better financial deal, father allowed to roam free and pollinate no responsibility and kept as well.
Results broken families, mixed up misfortunate kids stressed out and getting into trouble, no father figure to nourish, discipline put on right path and some one to respect and aspire to, any wonder Social Housing Bill is £23.1 billion and you want more to further a broken Society.
We need to start drastically reducing benefits. Bring back the workhouses so that those that cannot gain their own employment and shelter can work for it for the government. It's all to easy to sign in to 'DPW dot com' and claim ADHD, Asperger's, back problems, depression etc. For some of these people they should just go hungry.... Let's see how unfit they are to work then!
Nick
Many long term unemployed would go months before they got hungry, courtesy of the mobile food bank they carry around in their distended bellies.
Once they have lost a few stones they might even be healthier and fit enough to work - and live longer!
Sadly it’s all so true what you say.
It’s great sitting at a not too expensive chain restaurant and watching all the people with walking sticks that don’t quite need them spending their benefits with their new car we have to fund too.
😂😂 joke of the day… not a chance, unless you like wrecked properties and major stress…. There are so many better tenants out there….. suck it up buttercups, the councils have partly caused this by telling wayward tenants to wait for the bailiffs.
No way would I deal with the council: their staff are at no rusk so they can make all sorts of deals which they then renege on. Never trust these people!
Peter, a 10 year Contract is and was always an Assured Tenancy hence the need for Assured Shorthold Tenancy’s the Foundation of all Private Lettings that’s now being removed.
This is a fact before Section 21 which is part of the 1988 Housing Act there was virtually no Private letting and I had Campaigned long and hard for.
When my MP Sir George Young because Housing Minister it helped a great deal. God Bless him he believed in Fairness and Honesty unlike today’s lying cheating Ministers.
Just completed a sec 21 after the council insisted my tenant forced me to go to court for a possession order. It took a year and a pile of hassle to pull through.
Then council has the gaul to ask me if I would like to sell the property to them!
Needless to say, I told them ‘where to look’!
I wouldn’t play with any council if they offered to double the rent for this and a heap of other reasons as outlined by other posts here.
And you’ll be slapped with a worthless piece of paper called an HMO licence for the sum of £1100-1400 and no one will inspect it. Suitable mainly to mortgage free landlords given a vast majority of mortgage terms negate this plus if leasehold, forget it.
Peterborough LHA 3bed 695 plus 10% = £764…cheapest 3 bed on right move £895 in Peterborough…Do these councils think we are thick ?
It's the councils who are thick for asking in the first place.
Ha Ha !
I don't object to working with my local Councils and occasionally housing people via their various schemes but the money and conditions have to be right.
In the current climate:
LHA plus 10% is nowhere near.
LHA plus 40% would be more realistic.
LHA plus 60% would be attractive.
The devil is in the detail - “returned in a fit and rentable state” - according to whose standards?
Their rates are not attractive enough, although it is to be fair attractive that they’d cover all repairs and maintenance.
I would only consider something like this if I purchased a property specifically for the scheme. I wouldn’t trust the council to give them back in a good decorative state. So I would purchase something that’s at the lower end of the market, and hand it over to them in the tired state that I bought it, and only if they were paying at least market value.
But for my current properties - no way. No interest in helping councils because they don’t have interest in helping us. It would have to be a pure business decision.
2 words..... And the last one is off! What a cheek asking landlords to take well below market value to help them out.... But of course... I'm forgetting we don't run businesses... We are unregistered charities!
Yes at registered 'charities' like Shelter you can earn £140k per year just for telling false stories about landlords, and standing around in Westminster with cardboard boxes painted home with "people have a right to safe and secure home" on them. Also plenty of time to do marathons and other running with Shelter branded T shirts in 'company' time. Better than paying for the gym.
Nick
In the west midlands a middle aged couple took In a young man living in a box outside Tesco's. He was so grateful he murdered two of them !
Edwin,
In Westminster a blond buffoon had a friend. The buffoon decided to run for PM. But then his bespectacled friend stabbed him in the back. Similar to what the Tories are doing to landlords at the moment.
Jeremy Bamber was adopted. He killed his family in 1986 and is still in prison for it.
You can't trust anyone. Not judges, and certainly not politicians like Gove.
Nick
Give was adopted by a Scottish fish merchant who was ruined by EU fisheries policy. Gove pledged to return British waters to British control, it is still under EU control. Gove has deserted his two teenage daughters and gone off with a BBC producer
Gove sponsored Johnson. An early colleague of Gove was George Galloway! I will correct this if it can be proved to be untrue, l am certain it is not.
Oh please stop. It's getting late. I will have nightmares. I won't be able to stop think about this A-Hole!
Who said the Circus industry is coming to an end? We got amazing jokers and clowns running the show in our councils and governments.
We all know what’s wrong too many with University Degree, Graduates, Councils, CPD’s, Accreditation Schemes, Redress Schemes, Courses, many now Virtual Courses that’s taking the mick. Licensing Schemes, penalties.
No one earning earning any money or doing a real job just sponging of the likes of Landlords and other real people doing real work.
The one thing that is common to all those is on line money, one line money, on line money.
How true. Lots of expensively educated degree and masters people all producing nothing but red tape.
I know a guy try to get his house back but down to one Tenant who won’t leave or pay, now 2 years and £24k arrears been to Courts. Tenant backed up by Council, the most recent
one Tenant broke some windows called Council claiming disrepair and case thrown out again.
Thank you 2015 De-Regulation Act.
I used S21 and had to educate my solicitor that if a house was genuinely on the market for sale this would override the deregulation act. I did it as a precaution at first, but with all this nonsense it’s better to really get rid. Without S21 I fear I will never get my properties back.
I was putting up a fence today Concrete Posts and Concrete gravel boards.
The Tenant was amazed and remarked, you actually got out of bed today to dig a hole ?.
Michael,
Tenants these days don’t need to get out of bed. They sign on for their benefits from their phone. Deliveroo brings them their food although they do need to open the front door…
Soon landlords will need to wipe their bottoms once Gove has finished.
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