Proppys

UK Council Property Schemes

Two kinds of council money for property investors, across 187 UK councils: empty-home loans and grants for renovating long-term empty properties, and landlord incentives - guaranteed rent, rent in advance and deposit guarantees - for letting to council-referred tenants. Every scheme links to the council's own page.

Councils tracked
187
Active schemes
74
Largest loan
£175,000
No Use Empty (NUE) Loan - Kent
Largest grant
£80,000
Landlord Empty Property Grant

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North East England4/12North West England9/22Yorkshire & the Humber4/12Midlands8/39East of England6/19London8/16South East England10/27South West England9/16Wales8/8Scotland7/10Northern Ireland1/6

North East England

4 councils with active schemes
County Durham
Scheme available
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Durham County Council
3 active schemes
Loan up to £20kLandlord incentives 2
Redcar and Cleveland
Scheme available
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Sunderland
3 active schemes
Landlord incentives 1
Darlington
No active scheme
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Gateshead
No active scheme
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Hartlepool
No active scheme
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Middlesbrough
Under review
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Newcastle upon Tyne
2 active schemes
Landlord incentives 2
North Yorkshire
No active scheme
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South Tyneside
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Stockton-on-Tees
No active scheme
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North West England

9 councils with active schemes
Burnley
1 active scheme
Loan up to £25k
Cheshire West and Chester
1 active scheme
Grant up to £75kCT premium Yr1 +100%
Liverpool
1 active scheme
Grant up to £20k
Pendle
1 active scheme
Loan up to £15k
Preston
Scheme available
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Sefton
Scheme available
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South Ribble
Scheme available
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Warrington
1 active scheme
Loan up to £10k
Wigan
3 active schemes
Grant up to £25kLandlord incentives 2CT premium Yr1 +100%
Blackburn with Darwen
No active scheme
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Blackpool
No active scheme
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Bolton
Scheme suspended
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Bury
No active scheme
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Halton
No active scheme
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Lancashire County Council
No active scheme
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Manchester
No active scheme
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Oldham
Under review
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Salford
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
St. Helens
No active scheme
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Stockport
Under review
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Tameside
No active scheme
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Trafford
No active scheme
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Yorkshire & the Humber

4 councils with active schemes
Bradford
4 active schemes
Grant up to £5kLandlord incentives 3
Leeds
3 active schemes
Loan up to £30kLandlord incentives 2
Wakefield
1 active scheme
Loan up to £7k
York
2 active schemes
Loan up to £30kCT premium Yr1 +100%
Barnsley
No active scheme
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Calderdale
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Doncaster
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Kingston upon Hull, City of
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
Kirklees
No active scheme
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North East Lincolnshire
No active scheme
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Rotherham
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1CT premium Yr1 +100%
Sheffield
2 active schemes
Landlord incentives 2

Midlands

8 councils with active schemes
Gedling
Scheme available
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Herefordshire, County of
1 active scheme
Grant up to £50k
Nuneaton and Bedworth
1 active scheme
Loan up to £10k
South Derbyshire
1 active scheme
Grant up to £9k
Stafford
1 active scheme
Loan up to £10k
Telford and Wrekin
1 active scheme
Loan up to £8k
West Lindsey
1 active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Wychavon
1 active scheme
Loan up to £5kCT premium Yr1 +100%
Amber Valley
No active scheme
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Birmingham
2 active schemes
Landlord incentives 2CT premium Yr1 +100%
Boston
Under review
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Broxtowe
No active scheme
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Cannock Chase
No active scheme
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Coventry
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Derbyshire County Council
No active scheme
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Dudley
No active scheme
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Erewash
No active scheme
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Leicester
3 active schemes
Landlord incentives 3
Leicestershire County Council
No active scheme
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Lincoln
No active scheme
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Lincolnshire County Council
No active scheme
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Malvern Hills
Under review
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Newark and Sherwood
No active scheme
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North East Derbyshire
No active scheme
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North Northamptonshire
No active scheme
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Nottingham
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
Nottinghamshire County Council
No active scheme
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Sandwell
Under review
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Shropshire
Scheme suspended
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Solihull
No active scheme
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Staffordshire County Council
No active scheme
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Stoke-on-Trent
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
Walsall
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Warwick
No active scheme
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Warwickshire County Council
No active scheme
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West Northamptonshire
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Wolverhampton
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1CT premium Yr1 +100%
Worcester
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Worcestershire County Council
No active scheme
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East of England

6 councils with active schemes
Basildon
1 active scheme
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Central Bedfordshire
1 active scheme
Loan up to £15k
Chelmsford
1 active scheme
Loan up to £175k
Southend-on-Sea
1 active scheme
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Thurrock
1 active scheme
Loan up to £175k
Uttlesford
1 active scheme
Loan up to £175k
Babergh
Under review
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Broadland
No active scheme
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Cambridge
Scheme suspended
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Cambridgeshire County Council
No active scheme
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Colchester
No active scheme
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Essex County Council
No active scheme
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Hertfordshire County Council
No active scheme
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Huntingdonshire
No active scheme
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Ipswich
No active scheme
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Norfolk County Council
No active scheme
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Peterborough
No active scheme
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Suffolk County Council
No active scheme
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Tendring
No active scheme
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London

8 councils with active schemes
Camden
1 active scheme
Grant up to £80kCT premium Yr1 +100%
Croydon
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
Ealing
2 active schemes
Landlord incentives 2
Greenwich
2 active schemes
Loan up to £25kGrant up to £50k
Lewisham
2 active schemes
Landlord incentives 2
Redbridge
1 active scheme
Grant up to £40k
Southwark
2 active schemes
Loan up to £70kGrant up to £40k
Wandsworth
1 active scheme
Grant up to £25k
Barking and Dagenham
No active scheme
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Hackney
No active scheme
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Hounslow
No active scheme
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Lambeth
No active scheme
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Newham
2 active schemes
Landlord incentives 2
Tower Hamlets
Under review
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Waltham Forest
Under review
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Westminster
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%

South East England

10 councils with active schemes
Canterbury
1 active scheme
Loan up to £175kCT premium Yr1 +100%
Kent County Council
1 active scheme
Loan up to £175k
Maidstone
1 active scheme
Loan up to £175k
Medway
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
Oxford
Scheme available
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Portsmouth
1 active scheme
Loan up to £35k
Swale
1 active scheme
Loan up to £175k
Test Valley
1 active scheme
Loan up to £20k
Wealden
1 active scheme
Loan up to £25k
West Berkshire
1 active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Adur
No active scheme
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Bedford
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Brighton and Hove
No active scheme
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Crawley
No active scheme
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East Sussex County Council
No active scheme
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Eastbourne
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Hampshire County Council
No active scheme
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Milton Keynes
Scheme suspended
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Oxfordshire County Council
No active scheme
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Slough
No active scheme
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South Oxfordshire
Under review
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Southampton
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
Surrey County Council
No active scheme
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Tandridge
No active scheme
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West Sussex County Council
No active scheme
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Wokingham
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Worthing
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%

South West England

9 councils with active schemes
Bath and North East Somerset
2 active schemes
Loan up to £30kGrant up to £500
Bristol, City of
3 active schemes
Loan up to £60kLandlord incentives 2
Exeter
1 active scheme
Loan up to £25k
North Somerset
1 active scheme
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Plymouth
1 active scheme
Loan up to £50k
South Gloucestershire
1 active scheme
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South Hams
1 active scheme
Loan up to £30k
Teignbridge
2 active schemes
Grant up to £3k
Wiltshire
1 active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Under review
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Cheltenham
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Devon County Council
No active scheme
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Gloucester
No active scheme
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Gloucestershire County Council
No active scheme
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Swindon
No active scheme
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Tewkesbury
No active scheme
CT premium Yr1 +100%

Wales

8 councils with active schemes
Bridgend
1 active scheme
Grant up to £10k
Cardiff
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1CT premium Yr1 +100%
Denbighshire
Scheme available
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Newport
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
Swansea
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1
Vale of Glamorgan
1 active scheme
Loan up to £35k
Welsh Government
Scheme available
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Wrexham
1 active scheme
Loan up to £25k

Scotland

7 councils with active schemes
Angus
1 active scheme
Grant up to £8k
City of Edinburgh
1 active scheme
Landlord incentives 1CT premium Yr1 +100%
Glasgow City
Scheme available
CT premium Yr1 +100%
Highland
Scheme available
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Renfrewshire
Scheme available
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Scottish Empty Homes Partnership
Scheme available
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Stirling
Scheme available
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Aberdeen City
Under review
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Dundee City
Under review
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Midlothian
No active scheme
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Northern Ireland

1 councils with active schemes
Belfast
1 active scheme
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Antrim and Newtownabbey
No active scheme
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Ards and North Down
No active scheme
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Causeway Coast and Glens
No active scheme
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Derry City and Strabane
No active scheme
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Lisburn and Castlereagh
Under review
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Scheme data is sourced from individual council websites and UK government open data (OGL v3). Every entry links to the council's own page so you can verify eligibility before applying. Last refreshed bi-monthly via an LLM-assisted audit and admin review.