Supported housing commercial leases simplify your role and strengthen your revenue. Contracted income, longer terms, and a clearly defined management remit — with Verum Assets handling everything that sits outside your lane.
You keep your client. You keep your management role. We handle the SSH brokerage, the lease negotiation, and the legal process. The result is a cleaner, more commercially robust relationship between you, your landlord, and their property.
Your management fee is calculated against a contracted lease — not subject to voids, arrears, or residential tenant disputes. The income is predictable by design.
SSH properties have a single lessee — a regulated provider — not individual tenants. Maintenance calls follow a clear protocol. Your management burden per property falls significantly.
Introduce a structure that genuinely solves your landlord's tax and management challenges. The agent who brings this conversation is the one they remember.
Section 24 has eroded margins for mortgaged landlords. The Renters' Rights Act 2025 has removed fixed-term tenancies and increased management complexity. More landlords in your portfolio are asking questions you may not yet have a complete answer to. A supported housing commercial lease is that answer.
It sits entirely outside the Renters' Rights Act. Rent is contracted under a commercial lease and paid by a regulated, CQC-registered provider for the duration of the agreed term — typically one, three, or five years. Day-to-day management follows a clear, agreed protocol. For the right property, it transforms a difficult landlord conversation into a straightforward one.
Our partnership model is built around a clean division of responsibility. Verum Assets handles the SSH brokerage, lease negotiation, and legal process. You manage the property once the lease is in place. Neither party crosses into the other's lane.
Verum Assets is not a lettings agency. We do not manage properties, place residential tenants, or seek to replace your management role. Once the SSH lease is in place, your relationship with the landlord continues as normal — the management instructions are simply governed by a commercial lease rather than an AST. If the landlord ever moves back to conventional letting, they come back to you. We will say so explicitly.
Your management fee is applied to the contracted monthly lease value — the same way you would calculate it on a standard rental, but without the variables that make residential management unpredictable. No voids. No arrears. No individual tenant disputes. The lease governs everything.
The contracted lease value is determined by lease type — FRI, Functional, or Final — and is independently assessed and agreed before the lease is signed. Your management percentage applies to that figure for the duration of the lease term. The calculation is straightforward. The income is reliable.
| Lease Type | Management Responsibility | Contracted Rent Level | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRI Lease | Provider manages everything — landlord and agent are hands-off | Slightly below market | 1, 3 or 5 years |
| Functional Lease | Shared responsibilities — maintenance coordinated by agent | At market rate | 1, 3 or 5 years |
| Final Lease | Agent and landlord retain maintenance responsibilities | Above market rate | 1, 3 or 5 years |
Some landlords — particularly those with multiple properties or a growing SSH portfolio — choose to engage Verum Assets in an ongoing asset management capacity once their leases are established. This is a separate and distinct function from your lettings management role, and the two sit comfortably alongside each other.
Where this applies, Verum's role is to help the landlord manage their property interests with the rigour that a commercial SSH portfolio warrants — annual asset valuations, CPI-linked rent reviews, monitoring lease break clauses, and advising on portfolio growth. Your management role continues unchanged. Both parties serve the landlord relationship in parallel, each within their own clearly defined remit.
Beyond individual lease referrals, Verum Assets is actively building a best-of-breed panel of trusted lettings agents — one in each Borough we operate within. Panel agents are our first call when a new landlord comes into our network, and our preferred partner for property viewings carried out on our behalf.
We work with a growing number of investor and developer partnerships that regularly introduce new landlords seeking a structured, professionally managed approach to their portfolio. Those landlords need a reliable local agent from day one. Panel membership means your agency is the name we put forward — not a shortlist, not a rotation. You, in your Borough.
Most partnerships ask you to bring us business. Ours does too — but it also brings business to you. As Verum's investor and developer network grows, so does the flow of new landlords into each Borough we operate within. Panel agents are positioned to benefit from that pipeline directly, from the outset of our relationship.
Verum Assets Ltd is a specialist supported housing brokerage connecting private landlords with CQC-regulated supported housing providers through professionally structured commercial leases. We are ICO registered (ZC119105), operate under a full AML compliance framework, and work with a vetted panel of SSH-specialist solicitors.
We understand that when you make a recommendation to a landlord, your reputation is on the line. We operate to the same standard of professionalism, documentation, and transparency that you would expect from any specialist you refer a client to. Every deal we complete is one you can stand behind.
If you have landlords in your portfolio who could benefit from a supported housing lease, or if you want to discuss panel partnership in your Borough, we are happy to start with a 20-minute call.
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