Oregon Landlord-Tenant Laws
Local rent regulation in Oregon
Oregon law bars cities and counties from enacting local rent control, with narrow exceptions for subsidized housing, condominium conversions, and disasters, while a separate statewide law caps most annual rent increases.
Cited to Or. Rev. Stat. § 91.225 , Or. Rev. Stat. §§ 90.323, 90.324 (statewide cap) · Verified August 12, 2026 · Full Oregon rent-increase rules →
Oregon Security deposits
Oregon sets no cap on how much a landlord can charge for a security deposit, but the deposit and a written accounting for every deduction must be returned within 31 days after the tenancy ends and the tenant hands back possession.
Oregon Rent increase notice
Oregon caps most residential rent increases at 9.5% for calendar year 2026 and requires at least 90 days' written notice before any increase takes effect.
Oregon Late fees
Oregon gives tenants a statutory four-day grace period: a landlord may not charge a late fee unless rent is still unpaid after the fourth day of the rental period, and the fee must be spelled out in a written rental agreement.
Oregon Entry notice
Oregon landlords must give tenants at least 24 hours' actual notice before entering a rental unit, and may enter only at reasonable times.
Oregon Eviction process
To evict a tenant in Oregon a landlord serves a written termination notice - 10 days for nonpayment of rent (servable no earlier than the 8th day of the rental period) or 13 days if served from the 5th day, 30 days with a 14-day cure right for a lease violation, or 24 hours for violence, serious property damage or conduct outrageous in the extreme - and then, if the tenant does not cure or leave, files a forcible entry and wrongful detainer action under ORS 105.100 to 105.168 in the circuit court for the county where the property sits.
Oregon Application fees
Oregon regulates the rental application stage closely: an applicant screening charge may not exceed the landlord's average actual cost of screening or the customary market charge for comparable screening, only one charge may be required from an applicant in any 60-day period, and no charge may be taken until the landlord has adopted written screening criteria and given the applicant a detailed written notice.
Oregon mobile home park laws
Oregon regulates manufactured-home park space tenancies through ORS 90.505 to 90.850, which require 90 days' notice of a lot-rent increase capped at 6% a year in parks with more than 30 spaces (the lesser of 10% or 7% plus inflation in smaller parks), allow termination only for the statutory causes, and require 365 days' notice plus an owner-paid relocation payment to close a park.
Lot-rent, closure, park-sale and home-sale rules with statute citations →
Oregon Fair Market Rents (FY 2026) — HUD's benchmark rents for every Oregon metro area and county.
How this record was verified: Dual-host reads of statute text: official Oregon Legislature ORS chapter pages (oregonlegislature.gov ors090.html and ors091.html) plus the oregon.public.law mirror (current through the 2023 ORS edition and 2024 session), with verbatim re-reads of ORS 90.323(2)-(6) and 90.324(1)-(2). Every key number (31-day deposit return, 2x penalty, 4th-day late-fee grace, 6%/day and 5%/5-day fee caps, 24 hours' actual notice, 90-day increase notice, first-year bar, once-per-12-months limit, 15-year exemption, 3-months-rent penalty, lesser-of-10%-or-7%+CPI formula) was read on both hosts. The annually-published cap figure was verified on the official DAS Office of Economic Analysis rent-stabilization page (read twice independently) and cross-confirmed against the DAS newsroom press releases of 2025-09-30 and the 2025-10-01 correction: 9.5% for calendar 2026 (CPI-U West Region September 12-month average of 2.5%). 2026 short-session sweep via the Oregon Real Estate Agency's official 2026 Legislative Update: SB 1523, HB 4120, HB 4123 all enacted, none changes a v1 field.