Officially it is the Private Rented Sector Database, the PRS database for short, and the service you use is called Register your rental property. Whatever you call it, every private rented home in England has to be on it, it costs £65 a property every year, and it arrives region by region rather than everywhere at once.
Dates and figures on this page were checked on 15 September 2026. Sources are at the bottom.
The service opens in your region, and you then have three months to register. The West Midlands goes first. London is eighth of nine.
| Region | Service opens | Register by |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
If you let in more than one region, each property follows the region it is in, not where you live.
Three numbers worth knowing before your region opens.
Not a one-off. It renews annually and you pay again each time. Five properties is £325 a year, for as long as you let them.
You get a landlord registration number, and each property gets its own property registration number. Joint owners register the property once and each get their own landlord number.
Up to £7,000 as a civil penalty for a single breach. Up to £40,000 where the information given is false or misleading, or where the breach keeps going.
This is the part people underestimate. It is not a name and an address, it is a picture of the tenancy and the paperwork behind it.
The last line is the one to plan for. If your gas, electrical and EPC records live in three different places, this form is where that stops being free.
There is a duty here that lands on you rather than on your landlord.
Both the landlord registration number and the property registration number have to be active before you advertise, and both have to appear in any written advertisement or listing. That applies to portal listings, your own website, and anything printed.
In practice that means checking two numbers for every property you take on, and carrying them through to every advert you publish. For an agency with a hundred properties across several landlords, that is a hundred pairs of numbers to hold and keep current.
We would rather tell you the shape of this accurately than sell you something that is not there yet.
Your landlord number and each property's own number are stored against the property itself, with the date you registered, so they are where you look rather than in an email.
The registration can sit in your compliance calendar next to gas, electrical and EPC, with an expiry date, so the annual renewal turns up alongside everything else that expires.
Gas record, electrical certificate and EPC are already kept against the property with their expiry dates, which is most of what the form wants from you.
Five pounds a property a month for agencies, from £7 a month for landlords. Tenants never pay anything. First month free.
Sources, checked 15 September 2026: The Independent Landlord, PRS database · Property Industry Eye, regional deadlines · NRLA, Register your rental property. Dates and fees can change. Check the government service before you act on anything here.