PRS Database: region 8 of 9

London: register by 14 October 2027

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

Required from: 15 Jul 2027
Deadline: 14 Oct 2027
Fee: £65 a year per property
Checked: 23 Sep 2026

The dates

Three dates for every let home in London

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.

Opens to everyone
15 December 2026
Any property can be registered early, wherever it is.
Required in London
15 July 2027
The three-month window to register starts.
Deadline
14 October 2027
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.

Check a postcode

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 City of London and the 32 boroughs

Schedule 1 of the draft regulations sets out each region as a list of council areas, as at 15 December 2026.

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 the local guides on this site that do, from ONS postcode data.

E4, a London postcode, is partly in Epping Forest, where the East of England deadline of 14 April 2027 applies.
EN2, a London postcode, is partly in Welwyn Hatfield, where the East of England deadline of 14 April 2027 applies.
EN5, a London postcode, is partly in Hertsmere, where the East of England deadline of 14 April 2027 applies.
KT6, a London postcode, is partly in Elmbridge, where the South East deadline of 14 June 2027 applies.
SM2, a London postcode, is partly in Epsom and Ewell, and Reigate and Banstead, where the South East deadline of 14 June 2027 applies.
SM5, a London postcode, is partly in Reigate and Banstead, where the South East deadline of 14 June 2027 applies.
UB8, a London postcode, is partly in Buckinghamshire, where the South East deadline of 14 June 2027 applies.

The rollout

Where London 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
Region	Required from	Deadline
West Midlands	15 December 2026	14 March 2027
East of England	15 January 2027	14 April 2027
East Midlands	15 February 2027	14 May 2027
South East	15 March 2027	14 June 2027
Yorkshire and the Humber	15 April 2027	14 July 2027
North West	15 May 2027	14 August 2027
North East	15 June 2027	14 September 2027
LondonThis page	15 July 2027	14 October 2027
South West	15 August 2027	14 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.

Address of the property
Landlord’s name, address and email
Ownership type
Type of property
Number of bedrooms
Whether it is let now
Freeholder, superior landlord or property manager
Number of people living there
Number of households
Licence
Gas safety record
Electrical safety report (EICR)
Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)
Start date of the current tenancy
Energy efficiency (MEES) exemption
Rent, how often it is paid, and whether bills are included
Furnishing

The register asks for each property’s rent. For comparison, ONS puts the average private rent in London at £2,338 a month in September 2026, up 3.5% on a year earlier. By borough it runs from £1,540 in Bexley to £3,739 in Kensington and Chelsea, across the 32 boroughs ONS publishes (it publishes no figure for the City of London). Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, released 21 October 2026. Rents for every council.

Get ready in LetCompliance

Seventeen answers a property. Have them on one page before 15 July 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 London dates
An email the day registration becomes required, then 30 and 7 days before 14 Oct 2027, for every property not yet marked registered.

Get your register pack Check your readiness first

Included on every plan.

Local guides

Licensing and the rest, place by place in London

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

Buy-to-let by council

What a landlord keeps in London

A 2-bed home let all year at the ONS average 2-bed rent (September 2026), for a basic-rate taxpayer at the 2026-27 tax rates (law). The landlord puts down a 25% deposit and borrows the rest, 75% of the average flat price (UK HPI, August 2026), on an interest-only mortgage at 4.82%, the latest published average (UK Finance, Q2 2026), before the 5 November 2026 Bank Rate rise.

Average 2-bed rent: £2,239 a month (ONS, September 2026)
Rank among regions: 9th of 9 regions in England, by what the landlord with a mortgage keeps per £100
Kept with a 25% deposit: £748.43 a month; £33.43 of every £100 of rent
Kept without a mortgage: £1,778.25 a month; £79.42 of every £100 of rent
Years to earn back the cash, with a 25% deposit: 15.5 years £139,559 put in: the deposit and stamp duty; 6.44% a year on it
Return on the cash, without a mortgage: 4.64% a year on £460,041 put in: the whole price and stamp duty

The returns are before any rise or fall in the home’s value. Stamp duty is at the rates for additional homes; legal, survey and lender fees are not counted, and the landlord with a mortgage still owes the 75% loan.

At the Budget rates for 2027-28 (announced, not yet law), the landlord with a mortgage keeps £18.71 a month less (£0.84 less per £100) than at the rates Parliament set in March 2026, and the landlord without one keeps £44.46 a month less (£1.99 less per £100), both at the basic rate.

Among the councils in London, the landlord with a mortgage keeps most per £100 in Barking and Dagenham (£44.13) and least in Kensington and Chelsea (£12.07), basic rate, 2026-27.

No council licence is counted at region level.

At this rent, one average 2-bed home brings Making Tax Digital for Income Tax from 6 April 2028 at the latest, with today’s rent standing in for the income of the year HMRC tests.

Costs counted: the PRS Database fee and safety certificates; repairs, insurance, an agent and empty months are not. This is not tax advice; speak to an accountant about your own figures. How the figures are built.

Source: LetCompliance, from ONS rents (September 2026) and HM Land Registry flat prices (August 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (ONS Price Index of Private Rents; HM Land Registry UK House Price Index). Every region and council. The share card for London.

FAQs

PRS Database in London: the questions landlords ask

When is the PRS Database deadline in London?

14 October 2027. Registration becomes required in London on 15 July 2027, with three months to register, and any property can be registered earlier, from 15 December 2026.

Which councils are in London for the PRS Database?

Schedule 1 of the draft Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026 sets London out as the City of London and all 32 London boroughs, as at 15 December 2026. A let home in any of them works to the London dates.

Can I register before 15 July 2027?

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

I live outside London. Which deadline applies to me?

The property's. The date follows where the let home is, not where you live: a landlord in Manchester with a flat in London works to the London deadline, 14 October 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.