England PRS Database Registration Deadline

Find when a rental property in England must be registered on the government's private rented sector (PRS) database, the "Register your rental property" service. Give property postcodes or English regions, up to 1,000 per run; get the region, the date registration opens, the deadline, and the status on today's date (Europe/London). One dataset row per postcode or region; the full result goes to the key-value store's OUTPUT record.

What it does and who it is for

Landlords, letting agents and property software teams can check which registration window applies to each property. Not legal advice. The dates follow MHCLG's published rollout 1. Check GOV.UK for any change before relying on them.

The rollout

Registration opens one region a month from 15 December 2026, and each region has three months, ending with the South West on 14 November 2027. The fee is £65 per property per year, pro-rated during the rollout 1. The deadline follows where the property is, not where the landlord lives 1.

Region	Opens	Deadline
West Midlands	2026-12-15	2027-03-14
East of England	2027-01-15	2027-04-14
East Midlands	2027-02-15	2027-05-14
South East	2027-03-15	2027-06-14
Yorkshire and The Humber	2027-04-15	2027-07-14
North West	2027-05-15	2027-08-14
North East	2027-06-15	2027-09-14
London	2027-07-15	2027-10-14
South West	2027-08-15	2027-11-14

Quick start

Paste this input (the Actor's prefill) and click Start:

{
  "postcodes": ["B1 1BB", "CB2 1TN"],
  "regions": ["London"]
}

Output, run on 3 October 2026 (sources omitted). Region rows come first, then postcode rows in input order. daysToDeadline depends on the run date.

{
  "asOfDate": "2026-10-03",
  "rows": [
    {
      "input": "London",
      "region": "London",
      "registrationOpens": "2027-07-15",
      "deadline": "2027-10-14",
      "status": "not yet open",
      "daysToDeadline": 376,
      "feePerPropertyPerYear": 65,
      "note": "General information, not legal advice."
    },
    {
      "input": "B1 1BB",
      "postcode": "B1 1BB",
      "localAuthority": "Birmingham",
      "region": "West Midlands",
      "registrationOpens": "2026-12-15",
      "deadline": "2027-03-14",
      "status": "not yet open",
      "daysToDeadline": 162,
      "feePerPropertyPerYear": 65,
      "note": "The deadline follows where the property is. General information, not legal advice.",
      "attribution": "Postcode lookup by postcodes.io using ONS Postcode Directory data. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right."
    },
    {
      "input": "CB2 1TN",
      "postcode": "CB2 1TN",
      "localAuthority": "Cambridge",
      "region": "East of England",
      "registrationOpens": "2027-01-15",
      "deadline": "2027-04-14",
      "status": "not yet open",
      "daysToDeadline": 193,
      "feePerPropertyPerYear": 65,
      "note": "The deadline follows where the property is. General information, not legal advice.",
      "attribution": "Postcode lookup by postcodes.io using ONS Postcode Directory data. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right."
    }
  ]
}

Regions only need no network call. This input:

{
  "regions": [
    "West Midlands",
    "South West"
  ]
}

gives, as its first row:

{
  "rows": [
    {
      "region": "West Midlands",
      "registrationOpens": "2026-12-15",
      "deadline": "2027-03-14",
      "status": "not yet open"
    }
  ]
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Required	Default	Meaning
postcodes	array of strings	one of the two	none	Full UK postcodes. Each is looked up once on postcodes.io 2, in batches of 100
regions	array of strings	one of the two	none	English region names from the table above. No network call

Give at least one of the two, up to 1,000 postcodes and regions in total. Unknown fields are rejected. Northern Ireland (BT) postcodes are never sent; postcodes in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland return an explanatory error row, because the PRS database covers England only. Do not include names or full addresses.

Output fields

Field	Meaning
input	The postcode or region this row answers
postcode, localAuthority	Normalised postcode and its local authority (postcode rows only)
region	English region (from postcodes.io for postcodes)
registrationOpens, deadline	When registration opens and must be done, YYYY-MM-DD
status	not yet open, open or deadline passed on the run date
daysToDeadline	Days from today to the deadline (negative if passed)
feePerPropertyPerYear	Fee in GBP per property per year, where published
error	Why a row could not be answered (unknown region, unrecognised or non-English postcode); otherwise absent
note	General caveat

Use from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/landlordtools~england-prs-registration-deadline/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"postcodes": ["B1 1BB", "CB2 1TN"], "regions": ["London"]}'

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('landlordtools/england-prs-registration-deadline').call({
  postcodes: ['B1 1BB', 'CB2 1TN'], regions: ['London'],
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Use with AI agents

AI agents can call this Actor through Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). Example prompt: "When must my rental properties at B1 1BB and CB2 1TN be registered on the PRS database?"

Data and attribution

Postcode lookup by postcodes.io using ONS Postcode Directory data. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2. Every postcode row repeats this attribution.

Integrations

Ready-made files in integrations/README.md: a Microsoft Power Platform custom connector (Power Automate, Power Apps, Logic Apps, Copilot Studio), OpenAPI 3 (Azure API Management, Postman, n8n, AI agents), an Excel / Power BI Power Query script, a Google Sheets function, and curl, Python and JavaScript examples. Apify's own Zapier, Make and n8n apps and its MCP server work too.

Pricing

Pay per event: $2 per 1,000 results, plus Apify's tiny per-run start fee ($0.00005). See the Pricing tab for the current price.

Related Actors

• UK Renters' Rights Dates: section 13 rent increase and pet request dates.
• UK Business Deadlines: Companies House, Corporation Tax, VAT and Self Assessment deadlines from a date.
• UK Working Days: working-day arithmetic and CPR 2.8 court time limits.
• UK Late Payment Interest: interest and compensation on a late business invoice.

Local use

With Node.js 22 or later, run node cli.js examples/input.json (regions only, no network), or npm test, which uses a fake postcodes.io and never touches the network.

Sources

1. MHCLG: Get ready: Register your rental property. Accessed 3 October 2026.
2. postcodes.io: free UK postcode lookup (ONS Postcode Directory, Open Government Licence v3.0). Accessed 3 October 2026.