Live monitoring across 352 UK councils

HMO compliance
before it costs you.

Every UK local authority changes its HMO licensing rules without warning. HMOwatch deploys automated bots across all 400+ council sources — so you know before your competitors, before your clients ask, and long before a fine arrives.

Built for letting agents and landlords who cannot afford to miss a licensing change.

See how it works

352

UK councils seeded & monitored

30/60/90

Days advance expiry warning

Daily

Automated compliance checks

What's inside

Regulation is fragmented.
Your monitoring shouldn't be.

HMOwatch pulls every moving part of UK HMO compliance into a single, structured, real-time system.

UK Council Registry

All 352 UK local authorities seeded with names, regions, and countries. No manual setup — every council is ready to monitor from day one.

Postcode to Council Resolution

Type a postcode, get the right local authority. Every property in your portfolio is automatically linked to its governing council — no guesswork.

Property Portfolio Management

Add, edit, and categorise your HMO properties. Each property is linked to its council and tracked independently — so a rule change in one borough doesn't clutter the rest.

License Tracking & Expiry Alerts

Record every license against its property. A daily automated check flags licenses expiring within 30, 60, or 90 days — before a renewal window closes on you.

AI-Powered Council Scraping

Claude Haiku reads council web pages and extracts structured licensing data automatically. Councils rewrite their pages — the AI adapts so you don't have to.

Compliance Change Detection

Compares every new scrape against the previous snapshot. New schemes, removed requirements, changed thresholds — each detected and classified automatically.

Multi-Channel Alert System

Compliance changes reach you in-app and by email. Configure which channel, how often, and what severity level — so critical alerts are never buried.

Compliance Changes Feed

A live timeline of every regulatory change, badged by severity. Acknowledge what you've actioned and track what still needs attention — nothing falls through the cracks.

HMO Dashboard KPIs

Your portfolio at a glance: properties monitored, councils active, recent regulatory changes, licenses expiring, and unacknowledged alerts — all on a single screen.

Council Browser Dashboard

Search across all 352 councils, see the last scrape status, and view live scheme counts. Know exactly which authorities are being monitored and when they were last checked.

HMO Register Aggregation

HMOwatch identifies and continuously updates local authority HMO registers — landlord and property data — so your reference information never goes stale.

Alert Subscription Management

Set your preferred channel (in-app or email), delivery frequency, and severity filter. Only receive the alerts that are relevant — configured entirely to your workflow.

The user journey

Up and running in minutes.
Protected indefinitely.

From first login to full portfolio coverage — here's exactly what happens.

01

Add your properties

Enter each HMO by postcode. HMOwatch resolves it to the correct local authority automatically — no manual lookup, no spreadsheet cross-referencing.

02

Log your licenses

Record existing licenses against each property. HMOwatch tracks expiry dates and fires 30, 60, and 90-day warnings — so renewals never creep up on you.

03

Bots watch the councils

AI-powered scrapers continuously check council licensing pages across 400+ sources. When a scheme changes — new, removed, or amended — the change detection engine flags it immediately.

04

You get the alert, not the bill

Compliance changes reach you in-app and by email, badged by severity. Review the change feed, acknowledge what's handled, and stay ahead — before a council enforcement officer gets there first.

Questions answered

The questions agents
actually ask us.

Which councils does HMOwatch cover?

HMOwatch has all 352 UK local authorities seeded — covering England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Our AI-powered scrapers monitor 400+ council licensing sources across this registry.

How quickly will I be alerted when a licensing rule changes?

The compliance change detection engine compares each new scrape against the previous snapshot. When a change is detected, the multi-channel alert system routes it to you via in-app notification and email. The exact cadence of scraping is available on request — but the system is designed to catch changes as they appear on council pages.

Can I manage multiple properties across different councils?

Yes. The property portfolio management feature lets you add and manage as many HMO properties as you need. Each property is individually linked to its local authority via postcode resolution — so alerts and license tracking are always specific to the right council, never aggregated in a way that loses context.

How does the AI scraping actually work? Does it break if a council redesigns its website?

Traditional scrapers rely on fixed HTML selectors — they break the moment a council moves a heading. HMOwatch uses Claude Haiku to read and interpret council web pages as structured data. Because it understands language rather than just markup, it's significantly more resilient to page redesigns and formatting changes than rule-based scrapers.

Can I control which alerts I receive and how often?

Yes. The alert subscription management feature lets you set your preferred channel (in-app, email), delivery frequency, and severity filter. You decide what reaches your inbox — from critical licensing scheme introductions down to minor amendments.

Is HMOwatch built for letting agents, landlords, or both?

Both. Letting agents managing portfolios across multiple councils benefit from the full breadth of monitoring — one dashboard covering every borough where clients own HMOs. Landlords with properties in a single area get the same alerts and license tracking, proportionally focused. The portfolio management and alert system scales to both use cases.

What happens when I acknowledge a compliance change?

The compliance changes feed shows a timeline of all detected regulatory changes, each with a severity badge. You can mark individual changes as acknowledged to track what's been reviewed and actioned. Unacknowledged alerts also surface on the main dashboard KPI panel, so nothing is silently missed.

Built to be relied upon.

Compliance tools only earn trust when they don't fail. Here's how HMOwatch is built.

Data Security

Your portfolio data is stored in a structured, access-controlled database. Property and license records are yours — not shared or resold.

Daily Automated Checks

License expiry monitoring runs on a daily cron. Scrape snapshots and change detection run on schedule — not when someone remembers to log in.

UK-Specific Compliance

Built specifically for the UK private rented sector. Every council, every region, every licensing scheme type — modelled for the regulations that actually apply to UK landlords.

Auditable Change History

Every detected compliance change is recorded with a snapshot comparison and severity classification. You have a full, timestamped audit trail of what changed and when.

Now accepting early access requests

The next licensing change
is already happening.

Somewhere in the UK right now, a council is introducing a new selective licensing scheme. An additional licensing area is expanding. A fee is changing. Without HMOwatch, you find out when it's already too late.

Join the waitlist above to be among the first letting agents and landlords with automated HMO compliance coverage across all 352 UK councils.

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