The short answer: it has not been decided yet. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 lets the Secretary of State choose, in separate regulations, which details from the PRS Database are made public (section 86). The draft Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026, which set out what you register, do not make that choice, and the government says it will publish the list of information the public can see at a later stage.
What is already fixed is who can see your entry, how a council enforcement entry can become public, and what your adverts will have to show. This guide sets out what the Act and the draft regulations say, so you can register without guessing. This is guidance, not legal advice.
What you will be asked for
The register holds two kinds of entry: one for you as the landlord, and one for each property you let (the draft regulations, Schedules 2 and 3).
Your landlord entry, if you are an individual: your name, date of birth, residential address, telephone number and email address. A company gives its name, its type of legal entity, an address that is not a PO box, a telephone number, an email address and the details of the person making the entry.
Each dwelling entry: the address; the landlord’s name, with a correspondence address in England and Wales that is not a PO box and an email for that property; the ownership type, dwelling type and number of bedrooms; whether it is let; any freeholder, superior landlord or manager; the occupants and households; licence details; the gas safety record, the EICR and the EPC; any MEES exemption; the rent, how often it is paid and whether bills are included; and the furnishing.
Being asked for something is not the same as it being published. That difference is what the rest of this guide turns on.
Get the answers ready once, for every property
Most of what a dwelling entry asks for is already in your records: the address, the bedrooms, the tenancy, the rent, the licence and the three certificates. LetCompliance builds a register pack for each property from those records. It lists what is still missing, keeps the gas, EICR and EPC files ready to upload, shows the deadline for the property’s region, and sends an email as that deadline approaches. It sits in the same login as the rent, the tenancy agreement and Making Tax Digital.
Who can see your entry today
Section 86(2) of the Act lists who the database operator must give access to: lead enforcement authorities, local housing authorities, local weights and measures authorities in England, mayoral combined authorities and the Greater London Authority. If someone other than the Secretary of State runs the database, the Secretary of State has access too.
Everything else in the database is restricted information. Section 87 says the operator must not disclose it except to those bodies, or where regulations authorise a disclosure for a purpose they set out. The draft regulations contain no such provision. So, as the law stands, your date of birth, home address and telephone number are open to councils and enforcement bodies, not to the public.
What tenants will be able to see
The government’s own description, on its Housing Hub site, is that in future tenants will be able to use the service to see if a landlord is compliant with key legal requirements. It adds that the information available to tenants will balance landlords’ privacy concerns with the need for tenants to make better informed choices, and that a list of what the public can access will be published later.
No list has been published yet. A guide that tells you exactly which fields will be public is guessing.
Council entries: 21 days before anything is public
Councils will also add entries about landlords to the database: banning orders, convictions or financial penalties for banning order offences, and other offences, penalties or regulatory action the regulations describe (section 83).
If regulations make those entries public, section 86 sets the floor. The information cannot be made public sooner than 21 days after the entry is made. The council must tell you about that period so you can point out any errors, and the regulations must say when the information stops being public.
Your adverts will carry your registration numbers
Section 82 says a property must not be marketed for a tenancy unless there is an active landlord entry and an active dwelling entry, and every written advert must include the unique identifiers the database gives to the landlord and to the property.
The Housing Hub says these steps come with future legislation, as the public part of the service is rolled out, along with registering empty properties before they are marketed. For now you register the properties that are let, or become let during the rollout.
The fee and the dates
The ‘Register your rental property’ service opens on 15 December 2026, starting with the West Midlands. Each property’s deadline follows its region, from 14 March 2027 to 14 November 2027, and you can register at any point before it. The fee is £65 a year for each property, pro-rated during the rollout.
The registration guide has the region table and the penalties for not registering.
What to do now
- Know which address goes where. Your landlord entry asks for your residential address. Each dwelling entry asks for a correspondence address in England and Wales, which may not be a PO box.
- Check the certificates are in date. The gas safety record, the EICR and the EPC are uploaded with each property.
- Register before your region’s deadline. You do not have to wait for your region: the service opens to everyone on 15 December 2026.
- Watch for the public-information regulations. They will say what tenants can see. Until they are made, no field is confirmed as public.
Sources and scope
- GOV.UK: Renting out a property
- GOV.UK: Your landlord’s safety responsibilities
- HSE: Gas safety in rented properties
Every figure on this page is cited to GOV.UK, legislation.gov.uk or HSE and reviewed against the live source every quarter. This is guidance, not individual legal advice.
After Section 21: Possession Routes Map
Section 21 was abolished on 1 May 2026 and the window to use older notices closed on 31 July 2026. This map takes the reasons landlords served Section 21 and shows the Section 8 ground that fits.
- Your reason for possession matched to a Section 8 ground
- Notice period and the evidence the court will look for
- What bars a possession order, and what no longer does
- The first-year rule and the 12-month re-letting ban for Grounds 1 and 1A
Frequently asked questions
Will my home address be public on the PRS Database?
Not decided. Your landlord entry asks for your residential address, but section 86 of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 leaves the choice of what is made public to later regulations, and none have been made. The government says it will publish the list of information the public can access at a later stage.
Who can see my PRS Database entry now?
Section 86(2) lists them: lead enforcement authorities, local housing authorities, local weights and measures authorities in England, mayoral combined authorities and the Greater London Authority. Under section 87 the rest of the database is restricted information.
Will tenants be able to look up my properties?
The government says that in future tenants will be able to use the service to see if a landlord is compliant with key legal requirements, and that what they see will balance landlords’ privacy concerns with tenants’ choices. The list has not been published.
Can I give a PO box as my address?
No. The draft Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026 ask for a correspondence address in England and Wales for each property and say it may not be a PO box number. A company landlord’s address may not be a PO box either.
When could a council entry about a landlord become public?
If regulations make council entries public, section 86 says not sooner than 21 days after the entry is made, and the council must tell the landlord about that period so they can point out errors.
