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Press: rental EPCs and the landlord database

About 243,000 rental EPCs in England reach their ten-year expiry between 1 November 2026 and their region's deadline to register on the new landlord database (the PRS Database). Everything on this page is free to use with credit to rentready (GenZAgents).

Figures from the government's EPC lodgement table, data to 30 September 2026. Reviewed 31 October 2026.

243,000rental EPCs reach ten years before their region's deadline

76,000of them inside the region's own three-month window

9,100in the West Midlands, first to register (by 14 March 2027)

71,500in London, the most of any region

1,640,000reach ten years in 2028 to 2030, before the planned C minimum

625,000in 2029 alone, against 305,000 in 2026

The chart

Rental EPCs reaching ten years each year (certificates, not homes; includes social lets). Highlighted: 2028 to 2030, the years before the planned C minimum on 1 October 2030. Download the chart (SVG).

By region

Region	Deadline to register	Reach ten years, 1 Nov 2026 to deadline	Inside the region's window	2028 to 2030
West Midlands	14 March 2027	9,100	6,200	148,700
East of England	14 April 2027	12,800	7,000	165,000
East Midlands	14 May 2027	12,200	5,700	142,600
South East	14 June 2027	24,100	10,400	253,200
Yorkshire and The Humber	14 July 2027	17,000	5,900	169,900
North West	14 August 2027	30,800	8,200	181,000
North East *	14 September 2027	39,700	7,700	67,600
London	14 October 2027	71,500	19,300	360,400
South West	14 November 2027	25,400	6,100	151,600

Rounded to the nearest hundred. * The North East figure includes a one-off quarter (27,114 rental EPCs lodged from April to June 2017, about four times its usual quarter), likely a bulk lodgement by a large landlord. Region deadlines are from the official guidance and the draft regulations, which Parliament has not yet approved.

Data you can use

Region figures (CSV)
Every English council, 296 rows (CSV): a local figure for any area, for example Birmingham about 2,040 before 14 March 2027.
The chart (SVG, with source line)
The full data story, with method and the searchable council table.

What it means for a landlord

A lapsed EPC does not stop a landlord registering an existing tenancy, but every new let needs a valid one, and the database asks for the certificate. Landlords who will re-let next year should check their dates now. The free rentready check shows, per property, the region's deadline and which certificate lapses first.

Method in brief

An EPC is valid for ten years. We take the government's quarterly count of EPCs lodged for private and social rented homes (live table D4(b)) and move each quarter forward ten years. A quarter that straddles a cut-off date is split by days. The counts are certificates, not homes: a home re-assessed within ten years is counted twice, and some landlords renew early. Full method and caveats are in the data story.

Credit and contact

Please credit rentready (GenZAgents) and link to the data story. rentready is a free landlord database checker made by GenZAgents in London; the founder is Manraj Singh Dhillon. For other cuts of the figures, a correction or an interview, open a request on GitHub (public, so leave out phone numbers) and we reply the same day.

Not legal advice. Last checked 31 October 2026.