HMO
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Rental market
Negative perceptions about HMOs can be changed, developers insist
Community opposition to shared housing can be reversed with good management, say developers Ray Guy and Geoff Knight.
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Regulation & Law
Another northern council plots to stop HMO ‘surge’
Bury Council wants to introduce supplementary planning to stop the ‘sandwiching of properties’ by HMOs.
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Regulation & Law
Northern landlords latest to face angry HMO backlash
Campaigners say Darlington council has 'lost control of HMO situation' and demand a clamp-down in smaller HMO planning permissions.
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Rental market
New analysis reveals true value of HMOs
HMO market in England & Wales is worth £78 billion and generates an annual rental income of £6.3 billion according to HMO platform COHO.
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Regulation & Law
Landlord fined for unlicensed HMO despite legal agreement with letting agency
A Portsmouth landlord has been fined £7,500 for an overcrowded HMO even though it was being run by a lettings agency under a guaranteed rent scheme.
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Regulation & Law
Potential buyer reports vendor for running unlicensed HMO… after viewing!
Landlord Daria Smith must pay £4,322 for failing to supply documents for the six-bedroom property, which had not been licensed via Mandatory HMO licensing.
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Regulation & Law
Landlord and his two agents to pay £17,000 over dodgy HMO
Hassan Fahri, James Przadkiewicz and Danny Shirt have pleaded guilty to the breaches at a Barnsley property during a court hearing.
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Regulation & Law
Landlord’s illegal eviction uncovered by property Tribunal
The landlord of an unregistered HMO evicted his tenant illegally and must now repay 70% of the rent, a judge has decided.
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Regulation & Law
Letting agency to ‘urgently appeal’ four-year ban given by ‘vendetta driven’ council
Liverpool City Council secured the ban under the Housing and Planning Act 2016 relating to convictions from February 2023 including the failure to license two HMO properties.
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Regulation & Law
Letting agency banned by big city council over HMO breaches
Trophy Homes was hit with the order relating to convictions from February 2023 when it pleaded guilty at Liverpool Magistrates Court to failing to apply for a HMO licence for the homes.
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