/ Buyer Demand Test

See how many buyers your HMO really has

Built on HMO X’s own evidence: hundreds of HMO valuations and sales every year, thousands of sold and rented HMO comparables, and live room-rent data refreshed every week. Enter your property and the numbers, and it reads your HMO the way an experienced HMO valuer and a serious buyer would: against the yields buyers actually pay in its local market, stress-tested at today’s borrowing costs, and placed on a 0–5 ladder of buyer demand.

Your property

Start with the property address. We match it to its local market, one of over 200 towns and cities (and counting), each calibrated from our own sold, rented and valued HMO evidence.

Property address

Postcode

Local market — matched from your postcode

Lettable rooms

Your asking price (£)

Gross annual income — full rent roll when let (£)

Occupancy when let % — your true occupancy

Underlying property type — 'Other' = commercial conversion

Tenant type — hover over (or tap) an option for more info

Who pays the bills?

Year converted to an HMO — e.g. 2019; sets maintenance

Article 4 area?

HMO licence — lenders check this first

Is it currently let? — optional

How quickly do you want to sell? — optional: slide between speed and value

Sell nowBalancedBest price

En-suite rooms

Bath/shower rooms (total)

Floor area — optional, from your floor plan or listing

Does either apply? — optional, they widen the buyer pool

Real rent-uplift or refurbishment potentialUnder-rented rooms, voids to fill, or works that would lift the income after purchase. Could sell at or near its value as a plain houseStrong owner-occupier area, or a buyer who would revert it to residential.

Market assumptions

Management % (inc VAT)

Mortgage LTV %

Interest rate %

Arrangement fee % of loan

Bills floor £/room/yr

Bills slope £/yr per £100/mo

Bills £/room/yr (tenant-paid)

Maint £/room (2018–21 base)

Cash-buyer net floor %

Leveraged ROCE floor %

Cost inflation % (projection)

Where should we send your report?

Your free report shows straight away, and Richard emails you a branded HMO X copy.

Please email me my report. HMO X may contact me about this property. This beta is run by HMO X Ltd. See the privacy notice.

This HMO Analyser is in beta and is hosted on richard-nicholls.co.uk. It is run by HMO X Ltd, and everything you enter is held by HMO X under the HMO X privacy notice. We keep the address and figures you test so we can follow up on your property and improve our local market data.

0 of 5 — buyer demand

/ Your report

Your branded report is on its way

Richard checks the figures and emails your branded HMO X report personally.

What a price change would do

Price is the main lever. Here is how the ladder score moves as the asking price changes.

Asking price	Gross yield	Score

Speed, certainty and value

Speed of sale	Typical timescale	Expected sale price

Your route to market

HMO X can help you establish the true value and best exit route for you and your HMO. These are the four ways out — the ones that look like a fit for your figures are flagged.

/ Your next step

Where do you go from here?

This tool is an automated, indicative read, not a valuation. Each step below is carried out personally by Richard.

More free HMO X tools: Tier test (your HMO's tier and where its rent is heading) · GDV Appraisal (for a refit or new scheme) · All HMO X tools. Your answers carry across.

Richard Nicholls — Senior Valuer & HMO Sales Lead, HMO X

0330 441 5888 · Sales@hmox.co.uk · www.hmox.co.uk

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