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Get ready for England’s landlord register.

From 15 December 2026, landlords in England register themselves and each property they let on a new GOV.UK service, “Register your rental property”, region by region. This free tool lists what the service asks about you and each property, shows each property’s region and deadline from its postcode, checks your certificate dates, and gives you a sheet to print and a CSV file. Nothing is uploaded.

Not affiliated with GOV.UK or MHCLG. Not legal advice. Based on the draft regulations as of 17 October 2026: check GOV.UK before you register.

Last updated: 17 October 2026

Example. The tool below with a made-up property in Birmingham (B1 1AA). On a computer: that property on the registration sheet, with its region, deadline and certificate statuses; on a phone: its address, and the region and deadline the tool found from the postcode.
A property on the registration sheet: West Midlands, registration required from 15 December 2026, deadline 14 March 2027; gas safety record expired, EICR expiring soon, EPC valid, and an F rating that needs an exemption. On a phone: the property's address and postcode, with its region, dates and the region's councils.

Gather your registration details

Not affiliated with GOV.UK or MHCLG. Not legal advice. Based on the draft regulations as of 17 October 2026: check GOV.UK before you register.

What you type stays in this page, on your computer: nothing is uploaded or sent anywhere, and nothing is kept when you close the page. Save your work to a file to come back to it.

1. Start, or open saved work

"Save your work" downloads a .json file with everything you entered. Keep it somewhere safe: it holds personal details. Open it here next time.

2. The landlord

Schedule 2 of the draft Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026: what the landlord entry must contain. Fields marked Required must be given when they apply; questions that don't apply stay hidden.

Who is the landlord

Schedule 2 asks different questions for each.

The landlord (a person)

Your full name.

Where you live, with the postcode.

The landlord (an organisation)

Or the description by which it is known.

For example private limited company, LLP, partnership, trust or charity. The draft regulations don't list the choices.

It may not be a PO Box.

The individual who fills in the register for the organisation.

The person in the organisation the database should contact.

If the organisation is a company or LLP.

If it is a registered charity (England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland).

Needed when there is no Companies House number: the name, date of birth and address of every one of them. One per line.

The trustee the trustees appointed as lead trustee for the register.

Someone acting for the landlord

For example someone with power of attorney, an executor, or a receiver appointed by the mortgage lender.

You upload a certified or sealed copy (as appropriate) of this document.

3. Each property

Schedule 3. Part 1 is needed to make the property's entry. For a let property, Part 2 (tenancy, licences, safety, energy and rent) is needed too, at the latest 28 days after the entry is made. You pay the fee for each property when you make its entry.

4. Your registration sheet

Everything you entered, what is still missing, each certificate's status and the documents to have ready. Print it (or save it as a PDF from the print window), or download it as a CSV for a spreadsheet.

Where this comes from

What it does

  1. You fill in one form for the landlord and one for each property, with the questions in Schedules 2 and 3 of the draft regulations. Questions that don’t apply to you stay hidden, and each one says which paragraph it comes from.
  2. From each property’s postcode it finds the region, and shows when registration is required there and the deadline. Where a postcode area crosses a regional border, it asks you to choose; it lists the region’s councils so you can check.
  3. It checks your certificate dates: the yearly gas safety record, the electrical report (EICR or EIC), the EPC and its energy rating, and says what has expired, what expires within 60 days and what is missing.
  4. It lists the documents to have ready and estimates the yearly fee.
  5. It gives you a registration sheet to print (or save as PDF), one page for the landlord and one per property, and a CSV file with one row per property.
  6. You save your work to a file on your computer and open it again later. Nothing is kept in the browser or sent anywhere.

It does not register you: you do that yourself on the GOV.UK service, with a GOV.UK One Login.

The rules come from GOV.UK’s Housing Hub page on the service, the draft Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026 and the guidance linked in the tool (“Where this comes from”), checked on 17 October 2026. The regulations are still a draft: check GOV.UK before you register.

Who makes this

I’m Sven Verbeek. I build small tools for one specific problem each, in the Netherlands. If something is wrong or unclear, email me at (not filled in yet) and I answer myself.

Changes

Agent mode (planned)

The tool above is free. A paid agent mode is planned, for letting agents and property managers: send each landlord a request form and collect their answers in one place. It is not built yet and is not on sale; sign up below to hear when it is ready.

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Not on sale yet.

Questions

Who has to register on England's landlord register?

Landlords in England with assured or regulated tenancies register themselves and each property. Landlords of supported exempt accommodation are left out. GOV.UK's Housing Hub calls the service "Register your rental property".

When do I have to register?

It depends on where the property is, not where you live. The service opens region by region, and each region has three months: the West Midlands from 15 December 2026 (deadline 14 March 2027), then the East of England, East Midlands, South East, Yorkshire and Humber, North West, North East and London, a month apart, and the South West last, from 15 August 2027 (deadline 14 November 2027). Anyone can register earlier, from 15 December 2026. The tool shows the dates for each property from its postcode.

How much does registering cost?

The Housing Hub says £65 a year per property, renewed each year. During the rollout the fee is pro-rated, so that those who register first don't pay more; how that works is not published yet. The tool's estimate is £65 for each property you let now.

Do I have to register a property that is empty?

Not yet. The Housing Hub says you don't need to register unoccupied properties yet and should wait for further guidance. Later, you will have to register an empty property before you or your agent market it to let; no date has been given.

What happens if I don't register?

The Housing Hub says you risk being fined, and that after a region's deadline the councils in that region can start enforcement.

Can my letting agent register for me?

Not completely. The Housing Hub says the landlord starts and ends the registration and stays responsible for all the information; an agent can provide some of it. You need a GOV.UK One Login to use the service.

Are the rules final?

Not yet. The Private Rented Sector Database Regulations 2026 are a draft on legislation.gov.uk, not yet made on 17 October 2026. This tool follows that draft, so check GOV.UK before you register.

Does this tool register me?

No. It helps you gather what the service asks and gives you a sheet to have next to you. You register yourself on the GOV.UK service. The tool is not affiliated with GOV.UK or MHCLG, and this page is not legal advice.

Is what I type sent anywhere?

No. Everything stays in this page, in your browser, on your device: nothing is sent to sfix-it or anyone else, and nothing is kept when you close the page. To come back to it, save your work to a file and open that file next time. This page sets no cookies and has no analytics.

Get notified

An email when agent mode is ready, and one when the register’s dates or rules change.

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