Is my home licensed?
Most shared houses (HMOs) need a licence, and in many areas every privately rented home does. Enter your postcode to see which licensing schemes cover your council and, where the council publishes its register as a file we can read, whether a licence for your address is on it. Nothing you enter is stored.
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Home let without a licence it needed? Tenants can apply for a rent repayment order: the rent repayment order pack puts together the licence check, the most the tribunal could order, what tribunals ordered nearby and how to apply (the calculator does the arithmetic alone).
Which councils we can check (21)
Register lookups work for councils that publish their register as a file:
- Barnet: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Bexley: shared houses (HMOs) and selective licences; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Birmingham: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Brighton and Hove: shared houses (HMOs) and selective licences; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Camden: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Hillingdon: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Hounslow: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Kensington and Chelsea: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Kingston upon Thames: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Lambeth: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Leicester: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Lewisham: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Manchester: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Nottingham: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Portsmouth: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Sheffield: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Sutton: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Tower Hamlets: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Waltham Forest: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Warwick: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
- Woking: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
The copy date is when we last downloaded the council's file; a few files are a council's reply to an earlier Freedom of Information request, so they are as old as that reply. For other councils the page shows the schemes and links to the council's own register search where there is one. How this works and its limits.
The three kinds of licensing, how to check, and what "not on the register" does and doesn't mean: our guide, does my rented home need a licence?