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East Midlands: register by 14 May 2027

Landlords letting a home in the East Midlands must register it on the Private Rented Sector Database. Registration becomes required there on 15 February 2027, and the deadline is 14 May 2027. Any property can be registered from 15 December 2026, and the fee is £65 a year for each one.
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The dates

Three dates for every let home in the East Midlands

Each region is called forward a month after the one before, with three months to register. The date that applies is the property's, not yours.

  1. Opens to everyone

    Any property can be registered early, wherever it is.

  2. Required in East Midlands

    The three-month window to register starts.

  3. Deadline

    After this date the council can take enforcement action.

The fee is £65 a year for each property, pro-rated during the rollout. Miss the deadline and the council can impose a penalty of up to £7,000. While a let that should be registered is not, a court cannot make a possession order for it, except on the antisocial behaviour Grounds 7A and 14 (Renters’ Rights Act 2025, section 90). Dates from the GOV.UK Housing Hub, checked 23 September 2026.

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Not sure a property is in this region?

Regions follow council boundaries, not the postcode's first letters, and a portfolio can span more than one. Put in the property's postcode for its own dates.

The councils

The 10 council areas that make up the East Midlands

Schedule 1 of the draft regulations sets out each region as a list of council areas, as at 15 December 2026. A county council’s area takes in every district council inside it.

  • Derby City Council
  • Derbyshire County CouncilWith its districts
  • Leicester City Council
  • Leicestershire County CouncilWith its districts
  • Lincolnshire County CouncilWith its districts
  • North Northamptonshire Council
  • Nottingham City Council
  • Nottinghamshire County CouncilWith its districts
  • Rutland County Council
  • West Northamptonshire Council

Postcodes that cross the line

A postcode district is a Royal Mail sorting area, so it can run over a council boundary into the next region. These are the ones among our local guides that do, from ONS postcode data.

  • S11, a Sheffield postcode, is partly in Derbyshire Dales, so homes on that side work to the East Midlands dates.

The rollout

Where the East Midlands sits in the rollout

Nine regions, a month apart, from the West Midlands in December 2026 to the South West in August 2027.

PRS Database registration dates by region of England, in rollout order
RegionRequired fromDeadline
West Midlands15 December 202614 March 2027
East of England15 January 202714 April 2027
East MidlandsThis page15 February 202714 May 2027
South East15 March 202714 June 2027
Yorkshire and the Humber15 April 202714 July 2027
North West15 May 202714 August 2027
North East15 June 202714 September 2027
London15 July 202714 October 2027
South West15 August 202714 November 2027

What it asks

The 17 things the register asks about each property

From the draft Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026, Schedule 3. They are a draft, so the list can still change before the service opens.

  1. Address of the property
  2. Landlord’s name, address and email
  3. Ownership type
  4. Type of property
  5. Number of bedrooms
  6. Whether it is let now
  7. Freeholder, superior landlord or property manager
  8. Number of people living there
  9. Number of households
  10. Licence
  11. Gas safety record
  12. Electrical safety report (EICR)
  13. Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)
  14. Start date of the current tenancy
  15. Energy efficiency (MEES) exemption
  16. Rent, how often it is paid, and whether bills are included
  17. Furnishing

The register asks for each property’s rent. For comparison, ONS puts the average private rent in the East Midlands at £922 a month in August 2026, up 3.7% on a year earlier. By council it runs from £704 in East Lindsey to £1,084 in West Northamptonshire. ONS reports each district inside a county on its own, so the range covers 35 councils rather than the 10 above. Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, released 16 September 2026. Rents for every council.

Get ready in LetCompliance

Seventeen answers a property. Have them on one page before 15 February 2027.

The register asks the same 17 things about every home you let, from the number of households to copies of the gas safety record, the EICR and the EPC. LetCompliance builds a register pack for each property from the records you keep in it: what is ready, what is missing, and the certificate files to upload. Registering becomes copying from one page.

  • A register pack for every property

    All 17 items, most of them filled in from the tenancy, rent, licence and certificate records you already keep.

  • The gaps, said plainly

    Each gap links to the page where you fill it in, so they are closed weeks ahead, not on the deadline.

  • Reminders on the East Midlands dates

    An email the day registration becomes required, then 30 and 7 days before 14 May 2027, for every property not yet marked registered.

Get your register packCheck your readiness first

Included on every plan.

Local guides

Licensing and the rest, place by place in the East Midlands

Each guide covers the council's licensing schemes, the national duties and this deadline for that place.

Derby

Derby

Nottingham

Lenton & Radford

Leicester

Clarendon Park and Stoneygate

FAQs

PRS Database in the East Midlands: the questions landlords ask

When is the PRS Database deadline in the East Midlands?

14 May 2027. Registration becomes required in the East Midlands on 15 February 2027, with three months to register, and any property can be registered earlier, from 15 December 2026.

Which councils are in the East Midlands for the PRS Database?

Schedule 1 of the draft Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026 sets the East Midlands out as the areas of 10 councils, as at 15 December 2026, and this page lists them all. The county councils among them are Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, and each one’s area takes in every district council inside it. A let home anywhere in these areas works to the East Midlands dates.

Can I register before 15 February 2027?

Yes. The service opens to every landlord on 15 December 2026, so a property in the East Midlands can be registered any time from then, ahead of its own deadline.

I live outside the East Midlands. Which deadline applies to me?

The property's. The date follows where the let home is, not where you live: a landlord in London with a flat in Derby works to the East Midlands deadline, 14 May 2027.

I have properties in more than one region. What then?

Each property works to its own region’s date, so a portfolio can have several. LetCompliance reads the region from each property’s postcode and shows every property’s deadline on one page.

What happens if I miss the deadline?

A council can impose a penalty of up to £7,000, 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. And while a let that should be registered is not, a court cannot make a possession order for it, except on the antisocial behaviour Grounds 7A and 14 (Renters’ Rights Act 2025, section 90).

General information about the registration rules, not advice on a specific property. The full PRS Database guide covers who must register, exemptions and how the service works.

Before 15 Feb 2027

Every property in the East Midlands, ready to register

LetCompliance keeps the register pack, the certificates and their renewal dates alongside the advert, the tenancy, the rent and the repairs, so registering is the last step rather than the first.

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