Ask your lettingagent about the register.

England’s new landlord register opens on 15 December 2026, one region at a time. If a letting agent looks after your home, you each have a part to do. Send your agent this note so you both know the plan.

What you do: Start the registration for each home on GOV.UK, pay the government’s fee of £65 a year for each home, and make your own declaration.
What your agent can do: Once you have the property number and the home is occupied, you can ask your agent to give the rental details: any licence, the tenants and households, the furnishing, the rent and bills, and the gas, electrical and energy certificates.
What stays with you: The record must be finished within 28 days of registering, even if your agent is doing it. A landlord whose home is not registered can be fined up to £7,000, and loses most routes to possession.

Your details

Your letting agent Your agent’s email (if you have it) Your home’s address Your name Where the home is

Open it in my email

Dear my letting agent,

You look after my rental home for me. The government’s new landlord register opens in the West Midlands on 15 December 2026, and homes there must be registered by 14 March 2027.

Please can you tell me what you need me to do and by when, which email address I should give GOV.UK when I name you as my agent, whether you will give the rental details and keep them up to date, and whether you charge a fee for this.

Thank you,

Your name

P.S. If your team has not got the hours, Woodyer Capital does this work for letting agents: woodyer-capital.com/landlord-register.

Nothing you type here is sent to us. We added the last line of the note, which tells your agent about us, and you can delete it. Woodyer Capital is a private firm that works for letting agents, and is not part of the government. These facts are from the GOV.UK guidance for landlords, and this is not legal advice.