Register your rental property in England: deadlines by region and what to gather

The short version

• England only. The register covers rented homes in England. Scotland has its own separate landlord registration, run through local councils: see mygov.scot. This guide does not cover Wales or Northern Ireland.
• Who: the landlord of a home let on an assured or regulated tenancy, if the home is not social housing.
• What: you register yourself (a landlord entry) and then each home (a dwelling entry), using a GOV.UK One Login.
• Cost: £65 a year for each property, according to GOV.UK.
• Deadline: depends on where the property is, from 14 March 2027 (West Midlands) to 14 November 2027 (South West).

Deadlines by region

The deadline follows the property, not your own address. GOV.UK’s example is a landlord who lives in London with a rental in Birmingham: the West Midlands deadline applies. Once a region is called forward you have a three-month window to register. After that, councils in the region can start enforcement. You can register earlier than your deadline, from 15 December 2026, including properties in several regions in one go.

Schedule 1 to the Regulations defines the regions by council area. Names are shortened.

• West Midlands: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Herefordshire, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire.
• East of England: Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk, Thurrock.
• East Midlands: Derby, Derbyshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, West Northamptonshire.
• South East: Bracknell Forest, Brighton & Hove, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Medway, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, Surrey, West Berkshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham.
• Yorkshire and Humber: Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, York, Doncaster, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield.
• North West: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Cumberland, Halton, Knowsley, Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, St Helens, Salford, Sefton, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Warrington, Westmorland and Furness, Wigan, Wirral.
• North East: Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Redcar and Cleveland, South Tyneside, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland.
• London: the City of London and the London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster.
• South West: Bath & North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bristol, Cornwall, Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Plymouth, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Torbay, Wiltshire.

Who has to register

You must register if you are the landlord under an assured tenancy or a regulated tenancy of a dwelling in England that is not social housing. If you let more than one home you make one landlord entry and one dwelling entry for each home.

Landlords of supported exempt accommodation, as defined in section 12 of the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023, do not need to register. For now you only need to register a home that is let, or becomes let, during the rollout. GOV.UK says that under future legislation you will also have to register an empty home before you or your agent markets it, and put your registration identifiers on adverts. It has not set a date.

What you will be asked for

The Regulations list the information in Schedules 2 and 3.

About you (the landlord entry):

• Individuals: name, date of birth, residential address, telephone number and email address.
• Organisations: name, type of legal entity, address (not a PO box), telephone and email, the person making the entry, a nominated contact, and a Companies House or charity number. Without a Companies House number, the names, dates of birth and addresses of all directors, trustees, partners or members of the governing body.
• If someone is acting for the landlord, for example under a power of attorney, their details and a copy of the document giving their authority.

About each home (the dwelling entry):

• The address, the landlord’s name, a correspondence address in England or Wales (not a PO box) and an email address, the ownership type, the dwelling type and the number of bedrooms.
• Whether it is let now, and the name and email of the freeholder, any other superior landlord or your property manager.
• The number of occupants and households, any HMO, additional or selective licence number, whether it is furnished, partly furnished or unfurnished, the rent and how often it is paid, and whether the rent includes utilities.

Documents to find before you start

For each home, save these as files you can upload:

1. Gas safety record, if the home has a gas supply, and its issue date.
2. Electrical installation condition report (EICR), or an electrical installation certificate (EIC), and the EICR expiry date or the EIC issue date.
3. Energy performance certificate (EPC), if you were required to give a valid one to the current tenant. If the latest EPC is no longer valid, the date the current tenancy began.
4. Minimum energy efficiency standard (MEES) exemption details, if the EPC rating is below the minimum level and you have a registered exemption.
5. Licence numbers for any HMO, additional or selective licence.

The 28-day rules

There are two, and in both the 28 days include the day itself.

• Registering a home that is already let. You can make the dwelling entry first and add the tenancy and safety information and documents within 28 days. If you do not, the entry becomes inactive.
• Changes. If anything in your entries goes out of date, update it before the end of the 28 days that begin on the day it went out of date. If a new EPC is issued on 1 March, your last day is 28 March.

For a home not yet let, add the tenancy and safety information within 28 days of a tenancy beginning.

What it costs and what happens if you do not register

GOV.UK sets the fee at £65 a year for each property, pro-rated during the rollout so that people who register first do not pay more. Entries last 12 months and become inactive the day after the renewal date unless renewed.

Councils can give a financial penalty of up to £7,000 for breaching the duty to have active entries, to keep them up to date, or for marketing or advertising a home without them. Up to £40,000, or a fine on conviction, applies to the offences in section 92 of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, including knowingly or recklessly giving false or misleading information and a further breach within five years of an earlier penalty. While you are in breach of the duty to have active entries, a court cannot make a possession order under section 7 of the Housing Act 1988, apart from limited exceptions.

Sources

Last checked 23 October 2026.

• Get ready: ‘Register your rental property’ service, Housing Hub, GOV.UK
• Stronger protections and greater confidence for renters, GOV.UK
• The Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026 (draft), legislation.gov.uk
• Renters’ Rights Act 2025, sections 63 and 75 to 96, legislation.gov.uk
• Registering as a private landlord, mygov.scot (Scotland)

Changes to this guide

• 23 October 2026: Published.

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