HMO landlords & managers
Manage rooms, tenancies, licences, and safety certificates for every house in multiple occupation from one place.
HMOs are more profitable than single lets, but only if you stay on top of room-level lettings, individual tenancies, mandatory licensing, and a longer list of safety obligations. Social Home is built for that complexity. Track every room and its tenancy independently, collect rent per room, and see occupancy and yield across the whole house. Mandatory and additional licence dates, gas safety, EICR, fire risk assessments, and emergency lighting checks are all monitored with reminders before anything expires. When the council inspects, your evidence pack is one click away. Whether you run one shared house or a portfolio of HMOs and co-living schemes, you get the room-level control that generic landlord software simply does not offer.
Stay licence-compliant year roundAccess from your computer: full
Use on your mobile device: partial
Your team can work seamlessly whether they're in the office or out in the field. Everything stays in sync automatically, so you always have the latest information at your fingertips.
Pain point
Most landlord tools assume one tenancy per property. With an HMO you have several tenancies, several rent streams, and rooms turning over at different times, which spreadsheets handle badly.
Pain point
Mandatory and additional licences run on their own clocks, and an expired HMO licence can mean prosecution, fines, and a rent repayment order, not just a slap on the wrist.
Pain point
HMOs carry extra duties, fire risk assessments, emergency lighting, more frequent checks, and proving them all at inspection is a scramble without one organised record.
Key capabilities
Manage each room as its own unit, with independent tenancies, rent, and turnover, while still seeing the whole property's performance in one view.
Every HMO licence is tracked with its conditions and renewal date, and reminders fire early so you renew in good time rather than discovering a lapse after the fact.
Gas, electrical, fire, and lighting certificates live together per property, with expiry monitoring and a one-click export for council inspections.
Time-saving benefits
Social Home continuously monitors every licence and certificate across your HMOs and prompts the right person before anything lapses, while room-level rent and occupancy update themselves as tenancies change.
Real-world scenarios
One tenant in a five-room HMO gives notice. The other four tenancies carry on untouched. Social Home raises a turnaround checklist for that room only, tracks the void, and re-lets it, while whole-house occupancy and yield update automatically.
Rather than hunting for the licence, the gas certificate, the EICR, and the fire risk assessment across files and emails, you open the property's compliance register and export a complete pack, every document current and clearly dated.
See it in action
These screenshots show exactly what you'll see when you use this feature. Every detail is designed to make your work easier and more efficient.
Customer perspective
“Running six HMOs used to mean a wall of spreadsheets for rooms, licences, and certificates. Social Home put it all in one place, and the licence reminders alone have paid for themselves by keeping us compliant.”
Tom Hargreaves — HMO Portfolio Landlord
FAQs
Yes. Each room in an HMO is managed as its own unit with an independent tenancy, rent amount, and dates. Rent is collected and reconciled per room, while you still get a whole-house view of occupancy and yield, which is exactly what HMO and co-living operators need.
It does. You can record mandatory and additional licences per property along with their conditions and renewal dates, and Social Home reminds you well before expiry. That protects you from the fines and rent repayment orders that follow an unnoticed lapse.
You can track gas safety, EICR, fire risk assessments, emergency lighting, and any other checks your HMO requires, with photos and reports linked to the property. Expiry monitoring and one-click export mean you are always ready for a local authority inspection.
Most teams are up and running within a week. We provide comprehensive onboarding support, including training sessions for your team, data migration assistance, and dedicated support to ensure a smooth transition. You can start using the platform immediately while we help you import your existing data.
We offer comprehensive training for all team members, including live training sessions, video tutorials, and detailed documentation. Our support team is available via email, phone, and in-app chat. Plus, you'll have access to our knowledge base with step-by-step guides for every feature.
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