Exceptions
The following are not houses in multiple occupation (HMOs):
- a property where the landlord and his household is resident with up to two tenants
- a two-person flat share
- a property or part of a property lived in by no more than two households each of which consists of only one person
- buildings occupied entirely by freeholders or long leaseholders
- buildings managed or controlled by a public body, such as the police or NHS, a local housing authority or registered social landlord
- buildings where the residential accommodation is not the main use of the building, such as religious buildings
- buildings that are already regulated (and where the description of the building is specified in the regulations) such as care homes
- purpose-built blocks of flats - unless any of the flats are shared by more than two tenants in two or more households