The landlord register opens on 15 December 2026. Here is your deadline.

Yes, if you let a home in England on an assured or regulated tenancy. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 creates the Private Rented Sector Database, which the Government runs as the ‘Register your rental property’ service. You register yourself and each property you let. Landlords of supported exempt accommodation under the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023 do not need to register.

The service opens on 15 December 2026, starting in the West Midlands. Registration then becomes a legal requirement one region at a time, a month apart, and each region has three months to register. The last deadline is 14 November 2027. You can register any property from 15 December 2026, before your own region’s deadline.

It depends on where the property is, not where you live: a London landlord with a flat in Birmingham works to the West Midlands deadline. The deadlines are West Midlands: 14 March 2027; East of England: 14 April 2027; East Midlands: 14 May 2027; South East: 14 June 2027; Yorkshire and the Humber: 14 July 2027; North West: 14 August 2027; North East: 14 September 2027; London: 14 October 2027; South West: 14 November 2027. After a region’s deadline, councils there can start enforcement.

Online, through the ‘Register your rental property’ service, from 15 December 2026. You sign in with a GOV.UK One Login, add your details as the landlord, then add each property you let with its tenancy, rent and safety certificates, and pay the fee for each property. Registration is renewed every year. There will be an offline route for landlords who need one, and a contact centre for help.

Your name, date of birth, residential address, phone number and email. For each property: the address, ownership type, dwelling type, number of bedrooms, whether it is let, and the name and email of any freeholder, superior landlord or property manager. The tenancy: number of occupants and households, any HMO, additional or selective licence and its number, and whether it is furnished. The rent and how often it is paid, and whether it includes utilities. And the safety records: the gas safety record and its issue date, the EICR and its expiry date, and the EPC where one had to be given to the tenant.

£65 a year for each property, and you renew each year. The fee is per property, so three properties cost £195 a year. During the rollout the fee is pro-rated, so landlords who register first do not pay more.

A council can impose a financial penalty of up to £7,000 for breaching the registration requirements, or up to £40,000 where the breach is an offence: knowingly or recklessly giving false or misleading information, carrying on more than 28 days after a penalty, or a further breach within five years of one (Renters’ Rights Act 2025, sections 91 and 92). And while you are in breach of the duty to be registered, a court cannot make a possession order for that property except on the antisocial behaviour Grounds 7A and 14 (section 90).

Both. You register yourself once as the landlord, then add a record for every property you let, and each property carries its own £65 annual fee.

No. Under the draft regulations, entries last a year, and once your first property is registered every property you add afterwards takes the same renewal date, so a portfolio renews once a year. Each property still pays its own £65.

For a property that is let, the draft regulations give you 28 days from creating the entry to add the tenancy and safety details: occupants and households, rent, the gas safety record, the EICR and the EPC. If they are not added, the entry becomes inactive, and the law requires an active entry for every let property. Changes, such as a new tenant or a renewed certificate, also have to be updated within 28 days.

Yes. The landlord has to start and end the registration. Your letting agent or property manager can upload certain information for you, and the Government will publish guidance for agents before launch, but you remain responsible for providing everything required. Agree in writing who is doing what.

Not yet. For now you only have to register properties that are let, or become let during the rollout. Later legislation will require you to register an unoccupied property before you or your agent market it, and to show your landlord and property identifiers on adverts. The Government will publish guidance before that applies.

Councils will use it for enforcement. In future, tenants will be able to use the service to check whether a landlord meets key legal requirements. The Government has said it will publish the list of information the public can see at a later stage, balancing landlords’ privacy with what tenants need to know.

No, and you can need both. Selective and HMO licensing are local council schemes covering specific areas or property types. The PRS Database is a single national register under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 for rented homes in England, on top of any licence you already need, and it asks for your licence numbers. The housing minister confirmed to Parliament that the database is not designed to replace selective licensing: the two do different jobs. Registering does not discharge a licensing requirement, and holding a licence does not exempt you from registering. They cost differently too: the register is £65 a property a year, while a selective licence fee is set by each council.

Most of what the register asks for is already in your account: addresses, dwelling type, bedrooms, furnished status, licensing, tenants, rent and your gas safety, EICR and EPC records. The PRS Database page scores each property 0 to 100 against those particulars, shows the deadline for its region, flags what is missing, and records each property’s registration status, reference and date once you have registered.