City of York Council's additional HMO scheme has covered three and four person shared houses in eight named wards since 1 April 2023, and Census 2021 records 17.8 per cent of York households renting from a private landlord or letting agency.
We build a shared house page for the eight licensing wards, an end of tenancy page with your checklist, a carpet page, area pages and a quote tool that collects the job details first. City of York Council's Article 4 direction has required a planning application to change a house into an HMO since 20 April 2012. See it live before you pay a penny, live in 7 days.
The published Valuation Office stock table CTSOP4.1, stock at 31 March 2025, records 93,700 properties in York. That is the published local authority row and it covers the whole unitary authority rather than the walled city alone. 14.3 per cent of the stock was built before 1900, 12.3 per cent between 1930 and 1939 and 11.7 per cent between 1955 and 1964.
Census 2021 table TS054 records 17.8 per cent of York households renting from a private landlord or letting agency, with a further 2.2 per cent in other private renting and 65.1 per cent owned. Table TS044 records 35.8 per cent of households in semi detached houses, 23.8 per cent terraced, 22.5 per cent detached and 15.7 per cent in flats. Both are whole authority figures.
The shared house work sits inside eight named wards here. We would build a shared house page around those wards, keep the end of tenancy checklist on its own page, and give the owner occupier work a separate regular cleaning route.
One of the eight wards named by City of York Council in its additional HMO licensing scheme (City of York Council HMO licensing page, read 17 September 2026).
Shared house end of tenancy work, with the shared areas handled separately from the rooms.
One of the eight wards in the additional licensing scheme (City of York Council HMO licensing page, read 17 September 2026).
Changeover cleaning for landlords and letting agents on a fixed date.
One of the eight wards in the additional licensing scheme (City of York Council HMO licensing page, read 17 September 2026).
Finished work photographed, with the rooms and appliances included named.
Both named among the eight wards in the additional licensing scheme, alongside Micklegate and Osbaldwick and Derwent (City of York Council HMO licensing page, read 17 September 2026).
Regular domestic cleaning with the visit date agreed at the booking.
One of the eight wards in the additional licensing scheme. Census 2021 records 17.8 per cent of York households renting from a private landlord or agency, which is the whole authority figure (City of York Council HMO licensing page, read 17 September 2026; Census 2021 TS054).
Deep cleaning with the included work named and the extras priced separately.
City of York Council runs mandatory and additional HMO licensing. Its licensing pages state that an "HMO licence is required for any House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) occupied by 5 or more people in 2 or more households, where householders share facilities such as the kitchen, bathroom, or toilet", and that the additional scheme, in force from 1 April 2023, applies to properties with "3 or 4 people who form more than one household, where householders share facilities".
The council names the eight wards covered as Clifton, Fishergate, Fulford and Heslington, Guildhall, Heworth, Hull Road, Micklegate, and Osbaldwick and Derwent, and points landlords to its HMO guidance notes and local implementation policy for physical standards, management standards and the "fit and proper person test including the training requirements". Separately, the council's Article 4 direction for HMOs "removes permitted development rights" and "requires a planning application to be submitted to change a property from a dwelling house into an HMO" in the main urban area shown on its map, in effect from 20 April 2012.
The deposit rule comes from GOV.UK. A deposit must be protected where the home is rented on an assured periodic tenancy, and assured periodic tenancies replaced assured shorthold tenancies on 1 May 2026. GOV.UK names the Deposit Protection Service, MyDeposits and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme as the three schemes in England and Wales, states that the landlord or letting agent "must put your tenants' deposit in the scheme within 30 days of getting it", and lists what the tenant must be told within the same 30 days, including "what to do if there's a dispute over the amount of deposit to be returned at the end of the tenancy".
We would link landlords and agents to the eight ward list, the occupancy and the Article 4 map. Your page would set out the communal areas included, the room by room checklist, the access arrangements, completion photographs and your return visit policy.
The local field, 17 September 2026
We counted the Google Maps results for cleaning companies in York on 17 September 2026. The sample was 40 listings. Sixteen were independent firms with a York postcode under a domestic, commercial or specialist cleaning category, and fifteen of those had a website, with one having none. Five further rows with York postcodes are national or franchise brands and are counted separately, as are three carpet cleaning firms and four window cleaning firms. One row gave no address and eleven were other businesses.
A separate Maps pull for letting agents in York on the same day returned 40 listings, which is the cap we set, all with a York address, and 38 of them were property businesses. That is 38 inside a capped sample of 40, not a count of the agents in the city.
Those are two dated samples of two searches. What we would do with them is give Guildhall, Hull Road, Fishergate, Clifton and Heworth a page each, and carry a shared house page written for landlords and agents in the eight wards.
Three York firms appeared in the first ten Google local listings we checked for "cleaning companies in York", with sites worth opening. One of the three runs a locations section, a portfolio section and a CHAS accredited contractor badge beside its named end of tenancy, deep and office cleaning services.
It carries reviews on the page. It has no page per area. Quotes come through WhatsApp.
It carries a gallery section and testimonials, with a WhatsApp route in the source.
It carries reviews on the page. It has no page per area. Quotes come by phone, and the phone number sits in the header.
A gallery section and a reviews section sit on the same page as the mobile number.
Built on WordPress. It carries a page per area and reviews on the page. Quotes come through a form, and the phone number sits in the header.
It runs a Locations section, a portfolio section and a CHAS accredited contractor badge, with named end of tenancy, deep and office cleaning services.
Two keep the phone number in the header, all three carry reviews on the page, and one runs a page per area. Each one opened and checked 17 September 2026.
"carpet cleaning York"
390 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A carpet page of its own, with the method, the drying arrangement and your own finished floors.
"cleaning companies York"
260 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The town page. It names the wards and districts you cover and carries a finished job in each.
"cleaning company York"
260 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The singular form of the same phrase. It lands on the town page rather than a page of its own.
"house cleaning York"
90 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The regular domestic page, priced by the visit and the bedroom count.
"end of tenancy cleaning York"
50 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The deposit page, with the checklist in full, the return visit policy and your insurance.
"commercial cleaning York"
50 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The contract page, asking for the site, the hours and the frequency.
"deep cleaning York"
no recorded monthly volume (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The deep clean page is built anyway. It is the job the quote tool is there to size before it reaches you.
Of the seven phrases shown, six carry a volume. Deep cleaning York returned a row with no volume on it when it was queried (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026).
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Nine live sites we run ourselves, in this trade, carrying the shared house and changeover pages. Our Manchester site reached page one of Google for local searches. Open one and use it.
What every cleaning site needs, whatever the town, is on our cleaning companies page.
City of York Council's additional scheme covers HMOs of three or four people in more than one household in eight named wards, in force from 1 April 2023, on top of the mandatory five person rule. A landlord page can name those wards and set out what your changeover clean covers and what the landlord receives afterwards.
The University of York publishes 15,810 undergraduates and 4,890 taught postgraduates for 2024/25, and two of the council's eight licensing wards are Hull Road and Fulford and Heslington. Neither source says how many of those households book a clean, and a page should state what is included rather than predict demand.
OpenSEO recorded 260 monthly searches for cleaning companies York, 90 for house cleaning York, 50 each for end of tenancy cleaning York and commercial cleaning York, and 30 for office cleaning York. Deep cleaning York returned a row with no search volume, and no figure is recorded for it.
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99 out of 100 on Google's mobile speed test, measured on 15 September 2026. Run the test yourself.
The tool on this page is set to the drainage version so you can play with it. Yours comes with end of tenancy, deep clean, carpets and commercial on the buttons, and asks the bedroom count.
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Helps us work out the likely drain layout.
Optional. A shot of the standing water or the open chamber tells the engineer a lot.
Used only to scope the quote. Nothing is sent in this demo.
In a real build this lands in the engineer's inbox.
The engineer will reply within one working day. That is what your customer would see.
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Send us your firm's name and the areas you cover. We build it and send you the link. One firm per trade per area.
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