Register your rental property service: guidance for landlords
How you can use the Register your rental property service to register yourself and your properties, as required by the Renters’ Rights Act.
Applies to England
The Renters’ Rights Act requires private landlords to register themselves and privately let properties in England on the Register your rental property service.
You will register with the service using GOV.UK One Login and will have the option of verifying your identity. If you do not have digital access, you can register through a paper-based application.
Registration on a regional basis will begin from 15 December 2026.
Who needs to register
If you are a private landlord that is renting out a property in England that is currently occupied by tenants on an assured or regulated tenancy, you must register.
This includes organisations that act as private landlords.
Registration exceptions
You do not need to register if you operate a tenancy that is included in the meaning of supported exempt accommodation set out in Section 12 of the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023.
Individual landlords
You are an individual landlord if you rent a property:
- individually
- as a sole trader
- as part of a partnership with one or more other people
When you register, you will have to provide details about yourself and contact information.
Shared landlord responsibility
If you rent out a property with one or more other landlords, in a joint landlord arrangement, each landlord must register.
One of the joint landlords must register the property and invite all other joint landlords to the property registration.
If you own part of a rental property and are entitled to possession of it, you must register as a joint landlord. This applies even if you are not named on the tenancy agreement as a landlord.
Organisation landlord
Any organisation renting out properties is an organisation landlord, including:
- companies
- charities
- trusts
- limited liability partnerships
- Scottish partnerships
Registering an organisation landlord
When you register as an organisation landlord, you will have to provide details including:
- information about directors, trustees and other members of the governing body (where no Companies House number has been provided)
- a contact for the organisation
- your Companies House number (if applicable)
- your charity commission number (if applicable)
Anyone from your organisation can register the organisation as a landlord. Once registered they will be able to add other team members.
Team members will be able to register and update properties.
Partnerships
All members of English business partnerships who rent out property together must register as individuals and follow the guidance for joint landlords.
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and Scottish partnerships must register as organisations and provide details of all partners.
When should you register
We are rolling out the service regionally.
Each region has a 3-month registration period during the roll out. You must register your occupied properties located in each region by the region’s end date.
You can register your rental properties before their region’s start date. This means that if you have properties in multiple regions, you can register them at the same time, providing none are registered after their region’s end date.
Table: region registration periods
| Region | Start date | End date (before midnight) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Humberside | 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 |
Use your property’s postcode to check the relevant council.
To check the region of your local council please see:
Registering occupied and unoccupied properties
During the rollout, 15 December 2026 to 14 November 2027, you will only have to register properties that are currently under let, or which become let during this period.
In the future, you will be required to register unoccupied properties before marketing or advertising them.
Including landlord and rental property numbers in adverts
In the future it will be a requirement to include landlord and rental property numbers when advertising a property. This will apply to all property advertisements once the requirement comes into force.
You can include landlord or rental property numbers when advertising a property.
We will update guidance before the requirement takes effect.
Property registrations
To register a property, you will have to provide:
- property details (for example address, number of bedrooms, current rental status)
- a correspondence address in England or Wales
- contact details for any managing agents, superior landlords and freeholders
You can then pay your property registration fee and be given a property registration number.
You will be asked to provide further information about the property including:
- evidence of gas safety certificate (if the property has a gas supply)
- evidence of electrical safety certificate
- evidence of Energy Performance Certificate
- information about the tenancy including rent
- any licences, such as a House in multiple occupation (HMO) or other licences
You can provide this information at the same time as your property details, or you can submit your registration and provide any outstanding information within 28 days.
If you do not provide outstanding information within 28 days, your property registration may be deactivated.
This may result in you being in breach of the requirement to have an active property registration if your property is rented out.
Your landlord registration will also be deactivated if you have no active properties on the service.
Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs)
If you rent out a property with a HMO licence you should do one registration for the whole property. You do not need to register each room individually.
Delegating to a letting or managing agent
You must start the registration, and you are responsible for meeting the registration requirements. Once you have the property registration number and the property is occupied, you can ask a letting or property manager to provide tenancy and health and safety information.
As a landlord you are responsible for ensuring that the property record is completed within 28 days of registering it, even if you have delegated to your letting or managing agent.
Third parties
Under some circumstances a third party may be able register or update a property for you.
This is permitted in certain cases such as when:
- a landlord has died or is incapacitated
- a possession restriction is in place when a mortgage provider requires court-order possession of an unregistered property
As a landlord you remain legally responsible for registering an updating your properties on the service, unless the third party has become the legal landlord in your place.
Fee for the service
The annual service fee is £65 per property. This fee is not subject to VAT.
The fee will support the cost of operating the service and tackling non-compliance in the private rented sector.
You will pay when you register each property and then annually to keep your properties on the service.
You will not be charged for:
- your landlord registration
- any updates you make to your landlord or property records
The service fee is tax-deductible, you should review the relevant HMRC guidance when you submit your tax return.
Annual renewal
Your renewal date for all properties that you register will be 1 year from when you registered your first property.
This means all properties that you register will have the same renewal date.
For example, if you register a second property two months after you registered your first property, the second property would have the same renewal date as the first property.
Registering properties during the roll out
You must register and pay the service fee during the regional registration period for your properties.
During the roll out, the fee you pay will be adjusted (pro-rated), because some landlords will need to register before others.
Your fee will be adjusted to disregard any days before 15 November 2027, the date from which all landlords will be required to be registered.
Calculating the fee
The formula the service uses is:
(fee / year_length) * (remaining_days - free_days)
Where:
- fee = fee per year, £65
- year_length = days between previous renewal date and next renewal date, 365 or 366, depending on whether it is a leap year
- remaining_days = days until the next renewal date
- free_days = days until charging starts, during the rollout period any days before 15 November 2027 will be deducted
The first half of the formula calculates the cost per day, and the second half calculates the number of days left until the renewal period.
If the final figure has more than two decimal places, it will always be rounded down.
Worked examples
Example 1: 15 December 2026
If landlord registers a property on 15 December 2026, their first annual renewal date will be 15 December 2027. The figures to calculate the adjusted fee are:
- annual fee: £65
- year length: 365 days
- days between the two renewal dates: 365
free days: 335
(65/365)*(365-335) = 5.3425…
The landlord would pay £5.34
Example 2: 25 June 2027
If a landlord registers a property on 25 June 2027, their first annual renewal date will be 25 June 2028. The figures to calculate the adjusted fee are:
- annual fee: £65
- year length: 366
- 6 days between the two renewal dates: 366
- free days: 143
(65/366)*(366-143) = 39.6038…
The landlord would pay £39.60
Updating your registration
You must update any information that changes or expires within 28 days of that change or expiration.
This includes your personal information and information about the property such as occupancy or safety certificates.
You will not be charged to update your landlord and property records.
Penalties and enforcement
You may be subject to penalties of up to £7,000 for failing to register yourself and your property on the service. You may be subject to penalties up to £40,000 for knowingly or recklessly providing false or misleading to the service or have committed continuing or repeated breaches of certain requirements relating to the service.
Your local authority may take enforcement action if you do not comply with the service requirements.
From the 15 December 2026, tenants will be able to apply for Rent Repayment Orders (RROs) where a landlord has knowingly or recklessly provided false or misleading information to the service or has committed continuing or repeated breaches of certain requirements relating to the service. However, RROs will only become available to tenants once the registration period for the area their property is located within opens. More information can be found in Section 98 of the Renters’ Rights Act.
Any RRO applications will be reviewed by the First-tier tribunal.
Landlords with banning orders
Landlords who are subject to live banning orders may not be permitted to register on the service, depending on the conditions of the banning order.
Continued improvement
The service will continue to be developed with new features and improvements being added.
We will contact registered landlords if there are important changes or additions to the service, including updates to the privacy notice.
How we will use your data
Currently your landlord and property information will not be shared publicly.
However, in the future, some information about you and your rental property may be viewable to the public.
We may also share information with other agencies where we are required or permitted to do so by law.
We will provide a privacy notice explaining how your data will be used and shared. We will update it before any changes to data use or sharing take effect.
Get support with your registration
When the service is live you will be able to contact us for:
- support completing your registration
- a paper-based application
Who runs the service
The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government will oversee and operate Register your rental property.