UK Landlord Register

🔍 What does UK Landlord Register do?

UK Landlord Register turns two one-at-a-time government search forms into a list you can run. Give it a postcode and it returns every rental property at that postcode with the registered landlord, the letting agent, the landlord's contact address, the registration number and the council that enforces it. Properties with no register entry come back too, which in both Scotland and Wales is the whole point: letting an unregistered property is a criminal offence.

The quickest way to try it is to leave the prefilled postcode EH6 6QH in place and hit Start. That is a street in Leith with 67 addresses on it, and roughly a third of them are registered.

It reads two live registers:

• the Scottish Landlord Register, which covers all 32 Scottish local authorities
• Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh landlord and agent licensing register

England has no public landlord register yet. The Private Rented Sector Database created by the Renters' Rights Act begins its rollout later in 2026, and until it lands an English postcode comes back flagged rather than silently dropped.

🆚 What is the official route, and what does this add?

Both registers are free to search and genuinely good, and neither needs an account. The Scottish one is at landlordregistrationscotland.gov.uk, the Welsh one at rentsmart.gov.wales. If you want to check one property, use them directly.

What neither offers is bulk. There is no API, no download and no export. The Scottish register takes one postcode, shows you a dropdown of addresses, and makes you click each address in turn to see its landlord. Rent Smart Wales shows twenty results a page. Checking a street means dozens of clicks; checking a council area is not realistically possible by hand.

UK Landlord Register adds exactly that: a list in, a table out, both nations in one schema, run from a schedule or an API call, with the results going straight into a spreadsheet, a CRM or a database. No key management, no account, and one row per property whether or not the register had an entry for it.

📊 What data can I extract?

Field	What it is
🏠 propertyAddress	The rental property as the register holds it
📮 postcode	The postcode searched, in canonical form
🌍 nation	Which register answered, Scotland or Wales
📋 registrationStatus	The register's answer, in full, from registered to no-register
✅ isRegistered	True only for a live entry, so it is safe to filter on
🔢 registrationNumber	The landlord registration number. Scotland
👤 landlordName	The registered landlord, a person or a company
🏷️ landlordType	How the register classifies them, such as Company or Charity
👥 jointOwners	Any further owners named alongside the lead landlord. Scotland
👥 hasJointOwners	True where a second owner is named
🏢 agentName	The letting or managing agent, empty where the landlord self-manages
🏢 isAgentManaged	True where an agent is named
🏢 agents	Every connected agent, with licence status and expiry in Wales
📜 licences	The licences the property is let or managed under. Wales
🌐 websiteUrl	The agent's own website, from an agent name search. Wales
📅 registeredDate	When the landlord first registered, as an ISO date. Wales
📅 expiryDate	When the registration expires, as an ISO date. Wales
🏛️ localAuthority	The council that holds and enforces the registration. Scotland
✉️ contactAddress	The landlord's own contact address, often not the rental property. Scotland
🛠️ repairingStandardEnforcementOrder	Whether an enforcement order is recorded. Scotland
📝 consentToLet	Whether consent to let is recorded. Scotland
🔑 addressKey	The register's identifier for the address, so it can be re-checked directly
🔗 sourceUrl	The register page the row was read from
🕒 retrievedAt	When the register was read, as an ISO timestamp
🔎 searchType	Which search produced the row
🔎 searchTerm	The input value that asked for it

Fields marked Scotland or Wales are published by one register and not the other. They arrive empty rather than absent, so one export holds both nations without a ragged table.

💡 Why search the landlord register?

Because registration is a legal duty with a name and an address attached to it.

In Scotland, private landlords must register with their local authority under Part 8 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004. Operating unregistered is a criminal offence, carrying a penalty on conviction of up to £50,000 and a ban on letting for up to five years. Every rental advert must display a current registration number, and registration has to be renewed every three years.

In Wales, landlords must register and anyone letting or managing must be licensed under the Housing (Wales) Act 2014.

That makes the register the only public list that connects a rental property to the real person or company behind it, and it makes "is this property registered" a question with money attached.

Letting agents. The agentName column is empty whenever a landlord manages the property themselves. A landlord with several properties and no agent named is a self-managing portfolio owner, and that is a prospecting list nobody else is selling. Across 452 registered Scottish records sampled while building this, 353 named an agent and 99 did not.

Councils and enforcement teams. Finding unregistered lets is a statutory duty carried out one postcode at a time. registrationStatus: not-registered across a ward is that job as a spreadsheet, and repairingStandardEnforcementOrder surfaces properties already under an order.

Buy-to-let lenders and insurers. Confirming a borrower or policyholder is compliant before lending or covering, in bulk, at application time.

Tenants, advice services and deposit schemes. Checking a landlord is who they say they are, and that the number on the advert is real, before anyone signs.

Renewal and expiry work. In Wales, expiryDate turns the register into a dated pipeline of registrations coming up for renewal.

🚀 How do I use UK Landlord Register?

1. Click Try for free at the top of this page.
2. Paste your postcodes into Postcodes, one per line. Full postcodes only, such as EH6 6QH or CF24 4AA, because neither register accepts a partial one.
3. Optionally add Scottish registration numbers, or Welsh landlord and agent names, to search those ways as well. Those three return the landlord or agent themselves rather than a list of their properties, because that is what each register publishes.
4. Leave Include properties with no register entry on unless you only want registered ones.
5. Set Maximum properties to cap the run while you are testing.
6. Press Start. Watch the log or come back later.
7. Take the results from the Storage tab as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or pull them from the API.

⬇️ Input

Field	Type	What it does
postcodes	array	Full postcodes to check. Every property at each one is returned
registrationNumbers	array	Scottish registration numbers to look up, such as 201203/230/14591
landlordNames	array	Landlord names to look up in Wales. Needs the full name
agentNames	array	Agent names to look up in Wales. Matches part of a name
nations	array	Scotland, Wales, or both. Both by default
includeUnregistered	boolean	Keep properties with no register entry. true by default
maxResults	integer	Stop after this many properties. 1000 by default
concurrency	integer	Parallel lookups, 1 to 10. 5 by default

{
  "postcodes": ["EH6 6QH", "G3 6LG", "CF24 4AA"],
  "includeUnregistered": true,
  "maxResults": 500,
  "concurrency": 5
}

⬆️ Output

Table view

Property	Postcode	Register	Status	Landlord	Agent	Reg number	Council
59, TIMBER BUSH, EDINBURGH, EH6 6QH	EH6 6QH	Scotland	registered	KAAS Properties Ltd		201203/230/14591	City of Edinburgh
6, CAMPHILL AVENUE, GLASGOW, G41 3AY	G41 3AY	Scotland	registered	Laura Chong		216242/260/14301	Glasgow City
FLAT 1, 18 TIMBER BUSH, EDINBURGH, EH6 6QH	EH6 6QH	Scotland	not-registered
9, SALISBURY ROAD, CATHAYS, CF24 4AA	CF24 4AA	Wales	registered	Daniel Bultitude-Froud	CPS Property Management Limited (T/A CPS Homes)

JSON

{
  "searchType": "postcode",
  "searchTerm": "EH6 6QH",
  "nation": "Scotland",
  "postcode": "EH6 6QH",
  "propertyAddress": "59, TIMBER BUSH, EDINBURGH, EH6 6QH",
  "registrationStatus": "registered",
  "isRegistered": true,
  "registrationNumber": "201203/230/14591",
  "landlordName": "KAAS Properties Ltd",
  "landlordType": null,
  "jointOwners": [],
  "hasJointOwners": false,
  "agentName": null,
  "isAgentManaged": false,
  "agents": [],
  "licences": [],
  "registeredDate": null,
  "expiryDate": null,
  "localAuthority": "City of Edinburgh",
  "contactAddress": "Kindrochet, Gosford Road, LONGNIDDRY, EH32 0LF, UNITED KINGDOM",
  "repairingStandardEnforcementOrder": null,
  "consentToLet": null,
  "addressKey": "10094688950-0-0:59, TIMBER BUSH, EDINBURGH, EH6 6QH",
  "sourceUrl": "https://landlordregistrationscotland.gov.uk/search/registration/property-results",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-09-01T12:00:00.000Z"
}

A Welsh row fills registeredDate, expiryDate, agents and licences, and leaves registrationNumber, localAuthority and contactAddress empty, because that is what each register publishes.

📋 What each status means

The register does not simply answer yes or no, and the differences matter legally. Landlords are registered; letting agents are licensed; the two are separate regimes and have separate statuses here.

A property

Status	What it means
registered	A live entry. The landlord is named
registration-pending	An application is lodged and awaiting review. The property may legally be let while this is outstanding, so this is not a breach
not-registered	No entry. Letting this property is an offence in both nations
details-withheld	The register declined to publish and refers you to the council. This is not the same as unregistered

A letting agent, from an agent name search

Status	What it means
licensed	A current licence
not-licensed	The register holds the agent but shows no current licence
licence-status-unknown	The agent's record was found but the licence block could not be read. Never treated as a finding against them, and never charged for

Neither register applies

Status	What it means
no-register	No public landlord register covers that postcode. Today that means England, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies
outside-selected-registers	A register does cover it, but your nations setting excluded it

Treating registration-pending, details-withheld or licence-status-unknown as a breach would accuse a compliant landlord or agent of an offence, so they are kept apart in the data rather than merged for tidiness, and none of the three is charged for.

🗺️ Coverage and limits

• Scotland covers all 32 local authorities through one portal. A postcode search returns the register's own address list, which holds residential addresses it knows about. A postcode it does not hold comes back as no addresses rather than as an error.
• Wales caps any single search at 300 results across 15 pages. A postcode with more than that is reported to the cap, and the log says so rather than presenting a truncated total as complete.
• Registration numbers are a Scottish concept. Rent Smart Wales does not publish one against a property.
• Name search is Welsh only. The Scottish register cannot be searched by landlord or agent name, only by postcode or registration number.
• The Welsh register matches a landlord on the full name and an agent on part of one. That is the register's behaviour, not a choice made here.
• A name search returns the person or company, not their properties. Neither register publishes the link from a landlord or agent to the properties they hold, so a search for an agent returns that agent's licence, status, expiry and website, and a search for a landlord returns their registration and its dates. To find properties, search by postcode.
• An agent is licensed rather than registered, so an agent row uses licensed and not-licensed rather than the property statuses. Searching a common trading name often returns several separate legal entities with different licence states, which is what that column exists to surface.

⏱️ How long does a run take?

A Scottish property lookup takes about 0.1 to 5 seconds depending on whether there is an entry to return, with a median near 0.13 seconds. A Welsh search takes 1.5 to 2.5 seconds and each detail page a further 0.4 to 4.7 seconds.

At the default concurrency of 5, a busy 67 address Scottish postcode finishes in well under a minute. Set the run timeout to 900 seconds for a list of up to about twenty postcodes, and higher for a council-sized pull. The Actor watches the deadline and stops cleanly with everything it has collected rather than being killed part way, so a timeout costs you the rest of the list, never the rows already saved.

💰 How much does it cost?

Pay per event. You are charged once per property or agent the register gave a definitive answer for, and nothing else.

Plan	Price per 1,000 records
Free	$1.00
Bronze	$0.85
Silver	$0.70
Gold	$0.60
Platinum	$0.50
Diamond	$0.40

Worked through: EH6 6QH is a street in Leith with 67 addresses, of which 23 are registered and 44 are not. Checking the whole street is 67 records, so under 7 pence on the Free plan and under 3 pence on Diamond, and it took 69 seconds. Checking a hundred such postcodes is roughly 6,700 records, so $6.70 at the top of the ladder and $2.68 at the bottom.

You are not charged for a postcode no register covers, a postcode the register does not hold, a lookup that failed, a property whose details the register declined to publish, or an agent whose licence status could not be read. Those still arrive as rows so your coverage is honest, and they cost nothing.

The Actor also carries Apify's standard start event at $0.00005, charged once per run.

🔌 Integrations

Runs on the Apify platform, so everything the platform does comes with it: scheduling, so a watchlist of postcodes is rechecked weekly; webhooks, to fire when a run finishes; monitoring and alerting; and integrations with Zapier, Make, Slack, Google Sheets, GitHub and Airtable without writing any glue.

AI agents can call this Actor directly through the Apify MCP server as spookyweb/uk-landlord-register. An assistant asked "who owns the flats on Timber Bush and are they registered" can run the search and read the table back without anyone opening a browser. The output schema is declared, so an agent can chain the results into whatever it does next.

🔗 Using UK Landlord Register with the Apify API

Start a run and wait for it:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/spookyweb~uk-landlord-register/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"postcodes":["EH6 6QH"],"maxResults":100}'

With the JavaScript client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('spookyweb/uk-landlord-register').call({
    postcodes: ['EH6 6QH', 'CF24 4AA'],
    includeUnregistered: true,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

const selfManaging = items.filter((row) => row.isRegistered && !row.isAgentManaged);
console.log(`${selfManaging.length} registered landlords managing their own properties`);

With the Python client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("spookyweb/uk-landlord-register").call(
    run_input={"postcodes": ["EH6 6QH"], "includeUnregistered": True}
)
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["propertyAddress"], row["registrationStatus"], row["landlordName"])

❓ FAQ

Do I need an account or an API key for the registers?

No. Both registers are public and open, and this Actor uses no key, no login and no proxy.

Does it cover England?

Not yet, because England has no public landlord register to read. The Private Rented Sector Database under the Renters' Rights Act starts rolling out later in 2026 and becomes mandatory nationally after that. An English postcode is returned today with registrationStatus: no-register so you can see exactly which of your list is not yet covered.

Why does a property show as not registered when I know it is let?

That is the finding, not a fault. A let property with no register entry is an offence in both nations. It can also mean the address is let by a landlord who registered a differently worded version of the same address, so check the neighbouring rows before acting on a single one.

What is the difference between not-registered and details-withheld?

not-registered means the register holds no entry. details-withheld means it holds one but declines to publish it and refers you to the council. Only the first is a compliance finding.

Can I search by landlord name in Scotland?

No. The Scottish register offers postcode and registration number only. Wales offers landlord and agent name as well, and both are supported here.

Can I get every property a landlord or agent holds?

Not from a name search, because neither register publishes that link. A name search returns the landlord's or agent's own record. To build a portfolio, search a list of postcodes and group the results by landlordName or agentName. Grouping 646 rows sampled across twelve Scottish postcodes that way surfaced one landlord holding 250 of them and another holding 43.

Why did my Scottish postcode return no addresses?

The Scottish register keeps its own address list, and a postcode outside it returns nothing. Commercial-only postcodes and some new-build postcodes are the usual cause. It is reported as no addresses rather than as an error.

How current is the data?

It is read live from the registers at the moment the run happens, which is why every row carries retrievedAt. Nothing is cached and nothing is stored between runs.

How many results can a Welsh search return?

Rent Smart Wales caps a single search at 300 results over 15 pages. Split a large area into individual postcodes to get past it.

Can I run this on a schedule?

Yes. Schedule it in the Apify Console to recheck a watchlist of postcodes as often as you like, and use a webhook to push changes wherever you need them.

⚖️ Is it legal to search the landlord register?

Both registers are public registers, published deliberately so that tenants, councils and the public can check them. The Scottish register states that all of its content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and Rent Smart Wales invites public checking by anyone.

This Actor reads the same public pages a person reads, at a deliberately modest rate, with no login and no attempt to reach anything the registers do not publish. It adds no data of its own and infers nothing.

The records contain personal data, because a landlord is often a private individual. That means the UK GDPR applies to what you do with the results even though the source is public. Have a lawful basis, use it for the purpose the register exists for, keep it no longer than you need it, and take your own advice on your particular use. Nothing here is legal advice.

👍 Your feedback

Found a register page this reads wrongly, or need a field that is published and not extracted? Open an issue on the Issues tab and it gets looked at. If you need a variation, a different cut of the same registers or a bulk job run for you, say so there too.

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