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[ USE-CASES / WHO IT'S FOR ]
The regulation changes. Your dashboard doesn't.
HMOwatch continuously scrapes every local authority HMO register across the UK — so letting agents and landlords see licensing shifts the moment they happen, not months later when the fine lands.
[ UC-01 / LETTING AGENT ]
You manage landlords whose properties span Brent, Haringey, and Leeds. Each council runs its own licensing scheme on its own schedule. Keeping a spreadsheet updated is a full-time job — and it still misses things.
Council tracker Every local authority in your portfolio monitored in one view — see which councils have active licensing schemes and which have changed their rules.
Instant alerts The moment a register update is detected, you see it on the Alerts dashboard — before your landlords do.
Change log A full audit trail of every detected change, timestamped, so you can demonstrate due diligence to landlords and auditors.
[ UC-02 / LANDLORD ]
An unlicensed HMO can trigger a rent repayment order worth twelve months of rent. The defence — that you didn't know licensing had changed in your area — doesn't hold up. HMOwatch gives you the paper trail that does.
Property-level licence tracking Link your properties to the registers that govern them. See licence status, expiry proximity, and any detected changes in one place.
Activity feed A chronological record of every monitoring event — the kind of audit trail that demonstrates active compliance management.
Change notifications Get notified when anything shifts on a register relevant to your properties — licensing fees, boundaries, application requirements.
[ UC-03 / COMPLIANCE MANAGER ]
When your compliance team covers hundreds of properties across dozens of councils, manual checks mean something always slips. HMOwatch is the always-on layer beneath your team.
Changes surface in the Alerts dashboard, attributed to the specific council and register, so the right team member acts — not everyone.
Every detected regulation shift is logged with a timestamp in the Changes view. Forward it directly to a landlord as evidence of monitoring.
Multiple team members can access the same dashboard — no more one-person knowledge silos around which councils are running what schemes.
[ UC-04 / MONITORING / CHANGES ]
Local authorities change licensing rules, fees, and boundaries with little fanfare. A consultation page quietly goes live. A fee schedule is updated. A new selective licensing designation is published. HMOwatch catches the diff — every time.
Continuous register scraping All 400+ local authority HMO data sources are scraped automatically and cross-referenced for any change in content.
Structured change detection Changes are categorised and surfaced in the Changes dashboard — not a raw data dump, but an actionable diff.
Historical comparison See what a register said before versus what it says now, so you can assess whether the change requires action.
[ HOW IT WORKS / SYSTEM ]
The pipeline runs in the background. You see the results.
HMOwatch maintains a live index of all local authority HMO registers, landlord licensing pages, and consultation notices — 400+ sources and growing.
Each source is scraped on a rolling schedule. Content hashes are computed and compared against the prior snapshot — nothing slips through.
Detected diffs are structured — new entries, removed entries, fee changes, boundary amendments — so you know what kind of action the change requires.
The change appears in your Alerts and Changes views, timestamped and attributed to the specific council. Your team acts with full context.
[ UC-05 / ACTIVITY / AUDIT ]
Compliance isn't just doing the right thing — it's being able to show you did it. The Activity dashboard gives you a timestamped record of every monitoring event: what was checked, when, and what changed.
Continuous audit trail Every scrape, every change detection, every alert — captured chronologically in the Activity view.
Defensible record-keeping When a landlord or regulator asks whether you were monitoring — you have the timestamps to prove it.
Team visibility All team members see the same activity log — no fragmented inboxes, no 'I thought you were watching that council'.
[ COMMON QUESTIONS ]
[ GET STARTED / EARLY ACCESS ]
HMOwatch is built for UK letting agents and landlords who need to know — not eventually, but now. Join the early access list and be first to monitor the registers that govern your properties.
Questions? Email us at sf-core-org-support-hmowatch@saas-factory.ai
