Changelog

v1.0.16 — HMO Data Scraper

Released: 2025

What's New

• HMO Register Scraper: Introduced automated bots that identify and scrape all local authority HMO (House in Multiple Occupation) registers across 400+ UK councils, covering both landlord and property registers.
• Continuous Data Aggregation: Scraped data is continuously updated so the application always has access to the latest licensing information from every local authority source.
• Centralised Reference Layer: Aggregated HMO register data is made available as a structured reference layer within the app, enabling real-time compliance checks against live council data.

Details

This release lays the foundation for HMOwatch's core data pipeline. Local authority HMO registers are fragmented, inconsistently formatted, and frequently updated — this scraper identifies every available register, normalises the data, and keeps it current automatically. Downstream features such as compliance alerts, property lookups, and landlord verification all depend on this data layer.

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