In this paper, we give a negative answer to a problem presented by Bharanedhar and Ponnusamy (Rocky Mountain J. Math. 44: 753-777, 2014) concerning univalency of a class of harmonic mappings. More precisely, we show that for all values of the involved parameter, this class contains a non-univalent function. Moreover, several results on a new subclass of close-to-convex harmonic mappings, which is motivated by work of Ponnusamy and Sairam Kaliraj (Mediterr. J. Math. 12: 647-665, 2015), are obtained.Since the Jacobian of f is given by |h | 2 − |g | 2 , by Lewy's theorem (see [10]), it is locally univalent and sense-preserving if and only if |g | < |h |, or equivalently, the dilatation ω = g /h with h (z) 0 has the property |ω| < 1 in D. The subclass of H that are harmonic, univalent and sense-preserving in D is denoted by S H . Univalent harmonic functions are also called harmonic mappings.The classical family S of analytic univalent and normalized functions in D is a subclass of S H with g(z) ≡ 0. The family of all functions f ∈ S H with the additional property that f z (0) = 0 is denoted by Date: October 16, 2018.