PRS Database · Region 1 of 9
West Midlands: register by 14 March 2027
- Required from
- Deadline
- Fee
- £65 a year per property
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The dates
The dates for every let home in the West 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.
Opens and required
West Midlands is the first region: registration is required from the day the service opens.
Deadline
After this date the council can take enforcement action.
Fee
£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 rollout
Where the West Midlands sits in the rollout
Nine regions, a month apart, from the West Midlands in December 2026 to the South West in August 2027.
| Region | Required from | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| West MidlandsThis page | 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 |
| London | 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
Get ready in LetCompliance
Seventeen answers a property. Have them on one page before 15 December 2026.
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, 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 West Midlands dates
An email the day registration becomes required, then 30 and 7 days before 14 Mar 2027, for every property not yet marked registered.
Included on every plan.
Local guides
Licensing and the rest, place by place in the West Midlands
Each guide covers the council's licensing schemes, the national duties and this deadline for that place.
FAQs
PRS Database in the West Midlands: the questions landlords ask
When is the PRS Database deadline in the West Midlands?
14 March 2027. The West Midlands is the first region: registration opens and becomes required there on 15 December 2026, with three months to register.
What happens after 14 March 2027?
Councils in the West Midlands can start enforcement against landlords whose let properties should be registered and are not. Registration also has to be renewed every year.
I live outside the West 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 Wolverhampton works to the West Midlands deadline, 14 March 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 looks up the region from each property’s postcode, shows every property’s deadline on one page, and emails you before each date for anything not yet marked registered.
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 Dec 2026
Every property in the West 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.
