HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in UK: Houses in Multiple Occupation, HMO Properties For Sale
HMO stands for House in Multiple Occupation and generally refers to one of the following:
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A house split into bedsits
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A house or flatshare where each tenant has their own tenancy agreement
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Students living in shared accommodation
The term HMO, can also refer to hostels and Bed and Breakfast accommodation which isn't just used for holidays but these two categories aren't relevant to most residential landlords. Mandatory licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) came into force across England. Licensing aiming to raise the standard of accommodation for people living in HMOs.
HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in the UK
As of 6 April 2006 it is compulsory to license shared accommodation of three or more storeys which is occupied by five or more people who live in two or more separate households. A household may be made up of two people who are married, to each other, or are civil partners. The household may also be made up of people related to each other, or may include nannies or other domestic staff living with the family.
Local authorities also have powers to operate additional HMO licensing schemes to apply to properties with less than three storeys and occupied by less than 5 people in their areas. If you are not sure about any of the licensing issues surrounding your property, you should contact your council.
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HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in East Anglia: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
- HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in London
Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden City of London City of Westminster Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth
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HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in the Midlands Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland
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HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in North East England Cleveland, County Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear
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HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in North West England Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Manchester, Merseyside
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HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in Scotland Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Borders, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk Distric, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney Islands, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, Western Isles
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HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in South East England Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex
- HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in South West England Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in Wales Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham
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HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire, Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire
HMO, Hostels & Care Homes For Sale in the UK
Under the changes in the Housing Act 2004, if you let a property which is one of the following types it is a House in Multiple Occupation:
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An entire house or flat which is let to 3 or more tenants who form 2 or more households and who share a kitchen, bathroom or toilet.
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A house which has been converted entirely into bedsits or other non-self-contained accommodation and which is let to 3 or more tenants who form two or more households and who share kitchen, bathroom or toilet facilities.
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A converted house which contains one or more flats which are not wholly self contained (ie the flat does not contain within it a kitchen, bathroom and toilet) and which is occupied by 3 or more tenants who form two or more households.
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A building which is converted entirely into self-contained flats if the conversion did not meet the standards of the 1991 Building Regulations and more than one-third of the flats are let on short-term tenancies.
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In order to be an HMO the property must be used as the tenants’ only or main residence and it should be used solely or mainly to house tenants. Properties let to students and migrant workers will be treated as their only or main residence and the same will apply to properties which are used as domestic refuges.
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