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Property for emergency and crisis placement.
Maine Property Solutions is a property company. We find, prepare and manage buildings — we do not provide care, support or supervision, and we are not registered with CQC or Ofsted. Care and support in any property we manage is provided by the registered provider, not by us.
We are looking for our first placement in this sector. Tell us the specification and we will look for it.
Emergency placement is same-day. The statutory trigger threshold is deliberately low, the placement ends on an administrative decision rather than a notice period, and the statute expressly contemplates a private landlord supplying the accommodation.
Who buys it
Who buys it — Emergency & Crisis Placement
It is the local housing authority that signs, under its interim accommodation duty, and the threshold that triggers that duty is set deliberately low — which is exactly why the placement happens the same day. Adult social care opens a second same-day door, before any assessment has happened and whether or not the person belongs to the area, so there are two routes into the same building.
Who is registered, and who is not
Who is registered, and who is not — Emergency & Crisis Placement
No care regulator is involved. The regulator here is the housing authority under HMO law — and it can unilaterally declare a property an HMO, which is a materially different risk from choosing to licence one.
How it is paid for
How it is paid for — Emergency & Crisis Placement
Three statutory delivery routes exist, and one of them is simply obtaining accommodation from another person. That is the route a private landlord occupies, and it is written into the statute rather than being a workaround.
What the property has to be
What the property has to be — Emergency & Crisis Placement
The statutory suitability tests are about how much room there is, how the inside is arranged and where the building sits — not about fixtures and not about finish. Giving a household its own cooking and laundry is the single change that lifts a property out of the disfavoured category. And bed and breakfast is never suitable for a 16 or 17 year old, not even for one night.
What the lease looks like
What the lease looks like — Emergency & Crisis Placement
The arrangement is short and it ends administratively. Where a tenancy is granted under interim arrangements it cannot be an assured tenancy for the first twelve months; the placement stops on a decision rather than on a notice period; and families cannot be left in bed and breakfast beyond six weeks. A landlord should read all of that as fast in and fast out.
What the building has to carry
What the building has to carry — Emergency & Crisis Placement
The ordinary landlord duties follow the building whoever is living in it, and HMO amenity standards are the hard floor wherever licensing applies.
Honest limits
What is not possible here
Being exempt accommodation does not exempt you from HMO licensing
The word exempt in exempt accommodation refers to housing benefit, not to licensing, and the two are routinely confused. Being exempt accommodation does not exempt a building from HMO licensing. Mandatory licensing is triggered by five or more people in two or more households; what kind of occupancy agreement people hold makes no difference to whether a building is an HMO; and the single care setting that regulations lift out of the HMO definition is a registered care home, which is not what any of this is. Additional and selective licensing schemes can catch a property below the mandatory threshold as well.
The line, drawn plainly
What we can do, and what we cannot
What we can do
- Find property against a written specification — size, layout, location, adaptation, tenure and the compliance set the building has to carry.
- Prepare it: works, furnishing, certificates and the paperwork a provider or a commissioner will want to see before it takes the building on.
- Manage the building afterwards, if that is what is wanted — repairs, contractors, certificate renewals and the landlord side of the relationship.
- Put the proposed terms, the works and the timetable in front of you in writing before anything is committed.
What we do not do
- We do not provide care, support or supervision, of any kind, to anyone.
- We are not registered with CQC and we are not registered with Ofsted. A landlord letting a building to a care provider is carrying on neither regulated activity and has nothing to register.
- We do not employ, supply or manage care or support staff, and we make no claim about the vetting of anyone else's.
- We hold no framework place, no contract and no position on any supplier list with any council, health body or government department.
- We hold no care-sector placement anywhere. Maine Property Solutions operates two properties, both in Coventry, and has no managed instruction in any sector.
The rest of the lane
Other care sectors we can source property for
Your Questions
Questions we get asked
Not covered here? Tell us the specification and we will answer for your situation.
Can a private landlord supply emergency accommodation?
Yes. The statute expressly contemplates obtaining accommodation from another person as one of the delivery routes, so a private landlord is a recognised part of this, not an exception to it.
How long do placements last?
They stop on an administrative decision rather than on a notice period, so the duration is not fixed. Families cannot be left in bed and breakfast beyond six weeks, and where a tenancy is granted under interim arrangements it cannot be an assured tenancy for the first twelve months.
Could the council declare my property an HMO?
Yes. The housing authority can do that unilaterally, and HMO amenity standards are the floor wherever licensing applies. It is worth establishing the position before the first placement, not after.
Do you place people?
No. We do not provide care, support or supervision and we do not make placements. The placing decision is the authority's.