Yes – from 15 December 2026, most private landlords in England with assured or regulated tenancies must register themselves and their properties on the new PRS Database (branded the ‘Register your rental property’ service), with registration rolling out region by region through 2027. Whether a landlord’s personal address will be visible to the public, rather than just to local authorities, has not yet been officially confirmed.
According to the government’s Renters’ Rights Act roadmap, the database will capture the landlord’s contact details (including all joint landlords), full property details – address, property type, number of bedrooms, number of households, and occupancy/furnished status – and compliance information such as gas safety certificates.
Some reporting suggests landlord home addresses and National Insurance numbers are not expected to appear on the public-facing side of the database, with a fuller record reserved for councils’ enforcement use – but this hasn’t been officially confirmed, and the government has only said it will ‘try to balance’ landlord privacy against tenant transparency. Unlike the Companies House system, there is currently no published route for a landlord with a genuine safety concern to have their address protected on the register.
Letting or advertising a property without registering can bring a civil penalty of up to £7,000, rising to £40,000 or criminal prosecution for providing fraudulent information or persistent non-compliance. Registration is also expected to become a precondition for using many possession grounds, so an unregistered landlord may not be able to regain their property even with valid legal grounds.
Given the precedent set by Companies House – where a home address used for a public register became permanently searchable – many landlords are choosing not to wait for the privacy question to be fully resolved. Using a dedicated business or correspondence address for the landlord contact details on the registration, wherever the form allows a non-residential address, avoids the risk of a home address becoming part of this new public record before the rules are finalised.
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