The UK Government has published details of its new ‘Register your rental property’ service, which will be introduced across England in stages starting this winter. Registration will begin in the West Midlands, with the rest of England following on a regional timetable. Propertymark is in continued contact with officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to clarify the role of agents in the process and to directly raise questions and concerns from our members.

The service is the delivery of the landlord database provisions in the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. It will require landlords of assured and regulated tenancies to register themselves and each property they let.

Propertymark has long supported the principle of a national landlord and property register to help professional agents and responsible landlords demonstrate compliance and support councils to focus their resources on cases that present the greatest risk.

For the register to be a success, it is vital that councils have sufficient staff, resources and investigatory capacity to identify landlords who deliberately operate outside the law by failing to register or submitting false documents.