And the year after
Registration renews annually, and your certificates expire on their own schedule regardless. The point of keeping the record properly is that the second year costs you an evening instead of a weekend.
The landlord database,
in plain English.
From December 2026, landlords in England must register themselves and every property they let on a new national database — the private rented sector database, branded “Register your rental property”. It costs £65 per property per year and it rolls out one region at a time.
This page is the whole of it: your region’s two dates, everything it asks you for, and which bits are still being decided. The checklist is free and needs no account.
Registration opens
You must be registered by
Pick the region your property is in — not where you live. Every region’s dates are in the table below.
Two dates to remember, fifteen months apart. Housetold saves both against the property — the day registration opens and the last day to register — and gives you a week’s notice on each, alongside every other date you keep.
See how that worksWhen each region registers
Registration opens on the first date and you must be registered by the second — a three-month window in each region.
| Region | Registration opens | Register by |
|---|---|---|
| West Midlands | 15 Dec 2026 | 14 Mar 2027 |
| East of England | 15 Jan 2027 | 14 Apr 2027 |
| East Midlands | 15 Feb 2027 | 14 May 2027 |
| South East | 15 Mar 2027 | 14 Jun 2027 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 15 Apr 2027 | 14 Jul 2027 |
| North West | 15 May 2027 | 14 Aug 2027 |
| North East | 15 Jun 2027 | 14 Sept 2027 |
| London | 15 Jul 2027 | 14 Oct 2027 |
| South West | 15 Aug 2027 | 14 Nov 2027 |
Source: “Get ready: Register your rental property”, housinghub.campaign.gov.uk, read 12 September 2026. Registration and fees require secondary legislation; dates can move.
Everything it asks you for
The published list, grouped. Tick what you already have — your ticks stay in this browser, nothing is sent anywhere and we cannot see them.
0 of 23 ready
About you
An individual landlord gives personal details. A company gives its own, plus the people behind it.
About the property
The deadline follows where the property is, not where you live.
About the tenancy and the rent
The safety certificates
These have to be uploaded as files, not just declared. This is the part people underestimate: you need the document itself, current, for the property you are registering.
WHERE THAT LEAVES YOU
Still 23 to gather.
Tick the list above and this will tell you what is left — and which of it Housetold would have kept for you.
13 of the 23 are ordinary records Housetold keeps anyway — the address, the type, the bedrooms, whether it is let and furnished, the licence, your rent records, the utilities, and the three certificates with the dates they run out.
The other 10 are personal and ownership details the app does not ask you for — your date of birth, your home address, joint landlords, company or authority documents, the freeholder, occupant numbers, a MEES exemption. It lists them as Not held here so you know to have them ready.
We help you gather what the register asks for. We do not register your property — that happens on the government service.
Sources: “Get ready: Register your rental property”, housinghub.campaign.gov.uk, and the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 implementation roadmap, GOV.UK — both read 12 September 2026. The roadmap’s own wording is that, subject to Parliament, it expects the requirements to include these “at minimum”. The exact fields are set in regulations that have not been made yet, so treat this as what to have ready rather than a final form.
What nobody can tell you yet
Three things are genuinely undecided, and anyone who states them firmly is guessing: which of your details the public will see (the government says that list comes later), the exact guidance for letting agents (promised before launch), and when unoccupied properties come in. The dates and the fee above are published; the precise field list is not law until the regulations are made. We will keep this page dated so you can see how current it is.
WHERE HOUSETOLD COMES IN The register is a deadline.
The register is a deadline.
Not a filing system.
You file into it once a year and it tells you nothing back. It will not remind you when your gas record runs out, it will not hold the repair you argued about, and it is no use to you at a deposit hearing. That is the gap.
01 — THE THREE FILES YOU HAVE TO UPLOAD
The certificates, findable on the day you need them.
Gas, electrical and energy have to be uploaded as files. Housetold keeps each one as a record with the date it was checked and the date it runs out, works out the renewal itself, and tells you before it lapses — so on registration day you are not hunting through email for a PDF from two years ago.
A saved certificate is a record of what you have, not proof a check was carried out.
02 — TWO DATES YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO FORGET
Your region’s dates, set as reminders.
Choose the region a property is in — or let the app work it out from the postcode, with your permission — and it saves two reminders against that home: the day registration opens, and the last day to register. Both give you a week’s notice, and both sit with every other date you keep.
If the postcode lookup cannot match a region it says so and asks you to pick, rather than guessing. A wrong region here would show you somebody else’s deadline.
03 — WHEN YOUR WINDOW OPENS
A readiness list, and a sheet to work from.
Per property, the app shows where you stand against the checklist — each item marked Recorded, To gather or Not held here — and produces a PDF to fill the government service in from, naming both government sources and the day each was read.
Not held here is deliberate. Your date of birth, your home address, your joint landlords and your freeholder’s details are not things Housetold asks for, so it says plainly that you will need them rather than pretending it has them.
We help you gather what the register asks for. We do not register your property — that happens on the government service.
Try it before you pay
Signing in is free and opens a whole sample home with documents, a boiler and its manual, an open repair and a tenancy. Every page works. Decide whether it is worth it by using it.
Registration is one date.
The record is the rest of it.
The database asks once a year. Certificates expire on their own schedule, repairs happen at nine on a Sunday, and a deposit gets argued about eighteen months later. Housetold is for all of that — the register is just the part with a date on it.
Who has to register?
Landlords letting under an assured or regulated tenancy in England. Supported exempt accommodation under the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023 is exempt. At the start only properties currently let need registering; the government has said later legislation will require unoccupied properties to be registered before you or your agent market them.
What does it cost?
£65 per property per year, renewed annually. The government has said fees will be pro-rated during the rollout so that people who register early do not pay more.
My property is in one region and I live in another. Which deadline applies?
The property’s. A landlord living in London with a flat in Birmingham works to the West Midlands dates — registration opening 15 December 2026 and closing 14 March 2027.
What happens if I miss my deadline?
The government page says that if you do not register your properties you risk being fined, and that councils in a region can begin enforcement once that region’s deadline has passed. It does not publish figures there, and we are not going to invent any — check the guidance once the regulations are made.
Can my letting agent do it for me?
An agent may be able to supply certain information on your behalf, and the government has said it will publish guidance for agents before launch. But its own wording is that you as the landlord remain responsible for providing all required information.
Will my details be public?
Some of it. The government has said a list of the information the public will be able to access will be published at a later stage, so nobody can tell you exactly which fields yet.
Is this the same as a selective or HMO licence?
No. Those are permissions from your council to let a particular property, and they carry on as they are. The database is a separate national register, and it asks you to say whether the property is licensed.
Does this replace keeping my own records?
No, and this is the part worth thinking about. The database is something you file into once a year. It does not remind you when your gas record expires, it does not keep the conversation about a repair, and it will not help you at a deposit hearing. It is a filing obligation, not a filing system.
BEFORE YOUR REGION OPENS A reminder when
A reminder when
yours opens.
Tell us your region above and we’ll email you when registration opens there — and when Housetold lands on iOS and Android.