No change. Again. On Thursday 17 September 2026 the Bank of England held Bank Rate at 3.75%. If you have been waiting for a clear signal before making a move, that can feel like another month of nothing happening.
Raising the rent used to be one of those things that often happened by agreement. A conversation, a text, a new figure on the standing order from next month.
Your home goes live on a Thursday afternoon. By the following Tuesday, there are three letters on the mat, two of them handwritten, and somebody has knocked on the door to say they were just valuing a property round the corner.
Landlords in England now have a date, and a price. The government has confirmed that the new national register of landlords and rented homes opens on 15 December 2026, and rolls out region by region through the following year. Registration will cost £65 per property, every year.
Most sellers assume the awkward questions come later. Somewhere in the solicitor's pack, weeks after an offer, when the buyer's conveyancer starts digging. That is not how it works any more. A good deal of it has to be sorted before your home is even advertised, and the phrase for it is material information.
If you have been half following the EPC story for the last few years, you would be forgiven for thinking nobody knows what is happening. A standard was proposed, then delayed, then dropped, then revived. Dates came and went. 2025, 2028, 2030, all of them quoted confidently by somebody.
