HMO Management
Every room, every tenant, every compliance headache, handled completely. Room-by-room lettings, HMO licensing, fire safety, multi-tenant rent collection and 24hr maintenance, all under one roof.
Fee: 12–20% of gross rent
London Property Management
The Good Landlord Co manages HMOs, residential lettings, short-let accommodation and commercial properties across London, the way we'd want our own managed.
From a single HMO to a mixed London portfolio, we have a management service built around what you actually need.
Every room, every tenant, every compliance headache, handled completely. Room-by-room lettings, HMO licensing, fire safety, multi-tenant rent collection and 24hr maintenance, all under one roof.
Fee: 12–20% of gross rent
Full management of your standard AST and buy-to-let properties. Tenant finding and thorough referencing, rent collection, routine inspections, deposit protection and maintenance, all properly handled.
Fee: 8–12% of monthly rent
We manage your London property on Airbnb, Booking.com and direct channels. Dynamic pricing, guest management, professional cleaning and 90-day compliance tracking. Properly done.
Fee: 15–25% of revenue
Management of retail units, offices and mixed-use commercial properties across London. Lease administration, service charges, planned maintenance and full statutory compliance.
Fee: Bespoke on instruction
The same four frustrations come up in every landlord conversation we have. We built our entire service around solving them. Properly.
Unreliable contractors, calls at all hours, repairs falling through the cracks. Coordinating maintenance across multiple tenants is the number one time drain for self-managing landlords.
"We have a vetted contractor network and a 24hr maintenance portal. You never get a call at 11pm again."
Unpredictable income, chasing arrears across multiple tenants, not knowing what's landing in your account each month. Cash flow uncertainty is exhausting when you're doing it alone.
"We remarket rooms 6 weeks before a tenancy ends and handle all arrears. You receive a clean monthly transfer."
HMO licensing, fire safety, EPCs, the Renters Rights Act 2025, deposit protection. The rules change constantly. Fines for getting it wrong reach up to £30,000.
"We handle all licensing renewals, safety certs and legislative updates. You're always fully protected."
Five people sharing a kitchen is socially complex. Noise, cleaning, bills. Most self-managing landlords get dragged into disputes they never asked for.
"We handle all communication, mediate every dispute and reference rigorously. The right people move in from day one."
We make onboarding simple. Most properties are under full management within two weeks, with zero disruption to existing tenancies.
We sit down, review your properties and listen to what you need. No obligation, no pitch. Just an honest conversation about how we'd handle your portfolio and what it would cost.
We run a full compliance audit, photograph every property, set up our management systems and introduce ourselves to your tenants, or begin marketing vacant rooms straight away.
You receive a clear monthly statement covering income, maintenance log, compliance status and performance. We handle everything else proactively, without waiting to be asked.
Outer London boroughs are the strongest HMO market in the UK right now, with high professional tenant demand, great transport links and room rents of £700–1,000 per month.
"Switched from self-managing my Ealing HMO and haven't looked back. Two rooms filled in three weeks, licence renewal sorted and I genuinely haven't had a single maintenance call since. The monthly report is a revelation."
M. Rahman
HMO Landlord, Ealing, 6-bed property
"As a property investor I needed managers who think like investors. They understood immediately: yield, compliance and tenant quality. Our portfolio has never been better run and the communication is genuinely excellent."
S. Okafor
Portfolio Landlord, 4 properties, Outer London
"We handed over our Croydon property nervously. First month short-let revenue was 40% above what we'd achieved self-managing. Their pricing strategy is exceptional. We wish we'd done this sooner."
J. & P. Williams
Short-Let Landlords, Croydon
Honest answers to the things landlords actually want to know.
Ask us directlyIt depends on the service. Standard residential lettings management costs 8–12% of monthly rent. HMO management runs 12–20% of gross rent, justified by the complexity, licensing and compliance involved. Short-let and serviced accommodation management is 15–25% of total revenue. Every fee is transparent with no hidden charges or mark-ups on maintenance. We tell you exactly what you'll pay in our very first conversation.
HMO (House in Multiple Occupation) management covers properties let to 3 or more tenants from different households sharing facilities. It includes tenant finding and referencing, individual tenancy agreements, room-by-room rent collection, HMO licence applications, fire safety compliance, EPCs, deposit protection and maintenance coordination. HMOs generate significantly more income than standard BTLs but need specialist management to stay profitable and compliant. Professional management typically pays for itself through fewer voids, better tenants and avoided fines.
Yes. Any property let to 5 or more people from 2 or more households requires a mandatory HMO licence from your local council. Many London boroughs, including Newham, Waltham Forest, Ealing, Croydon and Haringey, also operate additional or selective licensing schemes that cover smaller HMOs with just 3 or 4 occupants. Fines for unlicensed HMOs can reach £30,000 and tenants can reclaim up to 12 months' rent via a Rent Repayment Order. We handle all licence applications, renewals and ongoing compliance as part of our HMO service.
In Greater London, residential properties can be let on short-term platforms such as Airbnb or Booking.com for a maximum of 90 nights per calendar year without planning permission. Exceeding 90 nights requires a change of use from your local planning authority. We track night counts across all platforms, manage planning applications where appropriate and make sure every short-let property we manage remains fully compliant throughout the year.
The Renters Rights Act 2025 abolished Section 21 no-fault evictions, replaced fixed-term ASTs with rolling periodic tenancies, introduced a Decent Homes Standard for private rentals and created a digital landlord registration database. You now rely on specified Section 8 grounds for possession. It's a significant shift, and staying on top of it is exactly what we're here for. We keep every managed property compliant and advise you on what the Act means practically for your portfolio.
We're landlords ourselves. Our team actively invests in and trades property, so we approach every portfolio with an investor's mindset, not just an administrator's. That means thinking about yield, not just rent collection; spotting compliance risks before they become fines; and talking to you the way a knowledgeable friend would. We're also genuinely small enough to care. You'll always know exactly who you're dealing with, and you'll always get a straight answer.
Book a free, no-obligation conversation. We'll review your portfolio honestly and tell you exactly how we'd manage it, and what it would cost.