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Prince George's County, Maryland: Permanent Rent Stabilization and Protection Act

Verified August 13, 2026 All Maryland topics →

Prince George's County limits annual rent increases for most rental housing built before 2000.

Cited to Prince George's County Code § 13-144 (annual rent increase allowance) and 4 more sources · Verified August 13, 2026

Under the county's permanent rent stabilization law, increases at renewal or on a new lease are capped each year at the lesser of local inflation plus 3% or 6% — 5.7% for the year running July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, and 2.7% for age-restricted senior housing. Newer buildings, small landlords with five or fewer units, and several other categories are exempt, and landlords can apply for higher increases for capital improvements or to earn a fair return.

Current published figures

Figure Value Applies to Source
Maximum rent increase (regulated units, not senior housing) 5.7% July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 Official source
Maximum rent increase (age-restricted senior housing) 2.7% July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 Official source

These figures change on a published cycle; each row states the window it applies to and links the source that published it. Confirm the current figure at the source before acting on it.

What is in force

In force today. A temporary rent stabilization act (CB-007-2023) ran from April 2023, extended into 2024; the Permanent Rent Stabilization and Protection Act of 2024 (CB-055-2024), adopted July 16, 2024 and signed August 1, 2024, replaced it, with the first annual allowance operative October 17, 2024. The codified sections are Prince George's County Code §§ 13-138 and 13-144 through 13-147.3. An implementing executive regulation took effect February 1, 2026. No amendments to these sections appeared in the code through the county's Supp. 2026 Update 2.

The rent increase limit

The annual rent increase allowance is the lesser of the change in the Washington-area consumer price index (CPI-U) plus 3%, or 6%. For age-restricted senior housing with 12- or 24-month leases the allowance is the lesser of CPI-U or 4.5%. At renewal or on a new lease the rent may not exceed the base rent plus the allowance plus any banked amount, and the total may not exceed 10% of base rent. The allowance runs July 1 through June 30 and must be published by May 1. Capital-improvement surcharges (building-wide: at least 96 months, at most 20% of base rent; unit-specific: at least 60 months, at most 15%) and fair-return petitions (benchmarked to the 10-year Treasury rate plus 3%) can add to it.

What housing is covered

Every rental unit not exempted. The largest exemption is construction completed on or after January 1, 2000. Others include licensed medical and assisted-living facilities, nonprofit shelters, religious facilities, transient hotels and motels, dormitories, owner-occupied group houses and two-unit buildings, accessory dwelling units, units under government affordability agreements, substantially renovated buildings (at least 40% of assessed value, completed on or after January 1, 2000, violation-free), landlords who are natural persons or living or decedent trusts owning five or fewer county rental units, county-resident-owned individual condominium units, and cooperative units. An exemption ends when its conditions cease.

What happens on vacancy

The permanent act's cap applies at lease renewal and at the execution of a new lease alike, so a turnover does not lift the limit on a regulated unit.

Eviction and termination rules

The permanent act contains no eviction restrictions; general county anti-retaliation protections sit outside this regime.

Registration and filings

Landlords of regulated units must file an annual data report and rent roll by September 30 covering the July-through-June year, and the county permitting department notifies license holders of the applicable limits. A public rent-lookup portal was required by January 1, 2026.

Other requirements

The act limits fee increases and bans new mid-lease fees for services already included in the lease. Penalties run $1,000 to $5,000 per violation. A proposed fee schedule for fair-return, capital-improvement, renovation, and banking applications (CR-073-2026) was in committee as of August 2026.

Notes and caveats

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Prince George's County, Maryland: Permanent Rent Stabilization and Protection Act (verified August 13, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/maryland/prince-georges-county/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified).

Citations

This page records local law. Statewide rules — deposits, notice periods, late fees, entry, evictions — live on the Maryland hub, and the state-level position on local rent regulation appears there with its own citations and verification date.