Private Sector Leasing

We are responsible for supplying emergency and temporary accommodation for households applying as homeless under the Housing Act. These homes are owned privately and leased to the Council.

If you have a self contained property in good and up to date condition, we can offer you:

A lease for two or three years
Guaranteed rent, even if the property is empty

As part of the work we do, we:

Inspect your property and provide a valuation and negotiation of terms
Develop our current temporary accommodation schemes from which you can benefit
Carry out the financial administration of the schemes including lease rental payments
Develop large scale supply contracts from RSL and private partners, and monitor contracts
Develop and monitor emergency accommodation supply
Co-ordinate and promote services to assist and encourage owners of empty private properties to bring them into use

We procure properties for the following temporary accommodation schemes:

Supplier Managed Private Sector Leasing - via contracted managing agents
Housing Association Leasing - from approved RSL (Registered Social Landlords) partners

Contact Details

For enquires regarding Private Sector Leasing, please contact the Procurement and Compliance Team on 020 8489 4355 or one of our approved partners directly (see attached list below).

For enquires regarding Private Sector Leasing Repairs, please contact the Temporary Accommodation Management Team on 020 8489 4396.

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Attached Files
Filename	Filetype	Size
furniture to be supplied for leased properties.pdf	PDF	16K
standards for approved private sector leased accommodation.pdf	PDF	70K
larcors - guidance on fire safety.pdf	PDF	1952K
rsl contacts.xls	Excel	23K
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