Your question
We are five friends sharing a flat and I thought that made it an HMO. But when I spoke to the Council they told me it wasn’t. Are they correct?
Your answer
I expect you were speaking to the Council Tax office. The definition for HMOs for Council Tax purposes is different from the definition of HMOs for licensing and similar purposes.
Find out more about this and the various HMO definitions in our article below.
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