How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Alaska?

No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).

Does Alaska preempt local rent control ordinances?

No Alaska statute expressly addresses local rent control — state law neither authorizes nor prohibits cities and boroughs from regulating rents, and the municipal codes of Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau contain no rent control ordinance.

Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Alaska?

Rent under a fixed-term lease can rise mid-lease only if the lease itself provides for it. No section of AS 34.03 permits or regulates mid-term increases, and official Department of Law guidance states this expressly.

How much notice is required to raise the rent in Alaska?

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What did not become law. None of the following is law; failed bills are sometimes still described as if enacted:

HB 115 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026) — Would add AS 34.03.020(f): a landlord could not raise rent more than once per calendar year and would have to give written notice at least 90 days before the increase takes effect; if a tenancy ends without that notice having been given, the unit could not be re-rented above the old rent until 90 days after termination (anti-evasion clause). Applies to rental agreements entered into on or after the effective date. Would convert Alaska from a derivation state (no express rent-increase notice statute) to an express 90-day state. Status: Introduced 2025 (Rep. Gray); referred to House State Affairs and Labor & Commerce 2025-02-26 and never heard. The 34th Legislature's second regular session adjourned sine die on May 20, 2026, which ended the bill — the special sessions that followed were limited to their call and did not include it, and no enrolled version of the bill exists. (checked October 1, 2026).

Alaska has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase - the 30-day figure everyone quotes derives from AS 34.03.290(b), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy on at least 30 days' written notice given before the rental due date specified in the notice (14 days for week-to-week tenancies while rent is current), so a rent increase operates as a termination of the old deal plus an offer to re-rent at the new price, and the state's own guidance says a landlord 'should, therefore,' give at least 30 days' notice.

Cited to AS 34.03.290 (a), (b) and 6 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 2026

State law sets no limit on the size or frequency of increases and no rent control, though the retaliation statute bars increases on the heels of tenant complaints or organizing unless the increase fits one of the statute's exceptions (a documented rise in taxes or costs, a capital improvement, or rent no higher than comparable units). Alaska has no statute either preempting or authorizing local rent control, and the municipal codes of Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau contain none. A bill that would have required 90 days' notice and limited increases to once a year, HB 115, sat in its first committee from February 2025 through the end of the 34th Legislature's last regular session on May 20, 2026 and was never passed.

Alaska rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent under a fixed-term lease can rise mid-lease only if the lease itself provides for it. No section of AS 34.03 permits or regulates mid-term increases, and official Department of Law guidance states this expressly. Rent is fixed for the term as a matter of contract. At expiry the landlord may propose any new rent for a renewal or subsequent tenancy.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Alaska has no statewide rent control, and the municipal codes of Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau contain no rent control or rent stabilization ordinance. The only appearance of 'rent controls' in the landlord-tenant act is inside the retaliation statute's list of government programs a tenant might complain to (AS 34.03.310(a)(4)). Rent increases in HUD- or AHFC-assisted housing may be limited by federal or agency rules, a program overlay rather than state rent control.
Local rent regulation	No Alaska statute expressly addresses local rent control — state law neither authorizes nor prohibits cities and boroughs from regulating rents, and the municipal codes of Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau contain no rent control ordinance.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Alaska Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified October 1, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/alaska/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

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Notes and caveats

High-traffic debunk: the '30-day increase statute' does not exist — Secondary sources circulate a sentence claimed to be in AS 34.03.020 — 'The landlord may increase the rent required under a periodic tenancy by giving the tenant written notice of the increase at least 30 days before the rental due date specified in the notice.' NO such sentence exists in the official text; an unofficial code mirror (current through 2025-01-01) agrees, and no 2025-2026 enactment touched the section. It is the AS 34.03.290(b) termination formula rebadged as an express increase statute.
Why the notice figure is blank, not zero — Alaska has no express rent-increase notice statute. AS 34.03.290(b) addresses only TERMINATION and never mentions rent increases or term changes — the only 'increase' language anywhere in ch. 34.03 sits in the retaliation statute — so the familiar 30-day figure is a derived rule, not a statutory one.
The derived notice anchors to the rent due date — Notice runs to 'the rental due date specified in the notice' — anchored to a rent due date, not any date the landlord designates. The week-to-week equivalent is 14 days, available only '[w]hile rent is current.'
Retaliation overlay — Under AS 34.03.310, a rent increase after protected tenant conduct is prohibited retaliation, with three (d) exceptions: the landlord became liable for a substantial increase in property taxes, or in other maintenance or operating costs unrelated to the tenant's complaint, at least four months before demanding the increase, and the increase bears a reasonable relationship to that rise; the landlord completed a capital improvement and the increase does not exceed the improvement's straight-line depreciation for federal income tax purposes, prorated among the units benefited; or the landlord can show that the new rent does not exceed the rent charged other tenants of similar units in the building or, for a single-family residence or where the building has no similar unit, the fair rental value.
Local rent control: neither preempted nor authorized — No express preemption or authorization exists anywhere in Alaska law. Neither AS Title 29 (chs. 29.10-29.71, including 29.35 municipal powers and 29.40 planning) nor ch. 34.03 contains any rent-control provision or exclusivity clause. The Alaska Constitution's art. X liberal-construction rule means a home-rule municipality could arguably act, but no statute settles the question. The municipal codes of Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau contain no rent control ordinance. The one Anchorage section whose heading mentions a 'monthly space rent increase limitation' for manufactured home communities (Anchorage Municipal Code 12.10.045) contains only a duty to give the assessor vacancy, ownership and rent data on request.
No frequency limit — the bill to add one did not pass — Nothing anywhere in ch. 34.03 limits how often rent may rise. HB 115 would have added a once-per-year limit; it never left its first committee and was not passed before the 34th Legislature's last regular session ended on May 20, 2026.
An orphaned rent-increase regulation still prints in the administrative code — Chapter 3 AAC 90, Emergency Rent Review, contains a section requiring 30 days' written notice of a rent increase with the specific reasons stated. The chapter applies only where the governor has declared a housing emergency under AS 34.06.020, and the statutory chapter it hangs on, AS 34.06, was repealed in 1975. No Alaska landlord is subject to it today.

Common questions: Alaska rent increase notice

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Alaska?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Alaska have rent control?: No — Alaska has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Alaska has no statewide rent control, and the municipal codes of Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau contain no rent control or rent stabilization ordinance.
Does Alaska preempt local rent control ordinances?: No Alaska statute expressly addresses local rent control — state law neither authorizes nor prohibits cities and boroughs from regulating rents, and the municipal codes of Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau contain no rent control ordinance.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Alaska?: Rent under a fixed-term lease can rise mid-lease only if the lease itself provides for it. No section of AS 34.03 permits or regulates mid-term increases, and official Department of Law guidance states this expressly.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Alaska?: Not addressed by statute.

Citations

AS 34.03.290 · (a), (b) (verified 2026) Official source
AS 34.03.020 · (a)-(e) (contains no rent-increase provision) (verified 2026) Official source
AS 34.03.310 · (a), (d) (verified 2026) Official source
Alaska Dept. of Law, The Alaska Landlord & Tenant Act: what it means to you (2024) · p. 21 ('Can the landlord raise the rent?') (verified 2026) Official source
Alaska Court System, PUB-30 Alaska Landlord and Tenant Act handbook (10/18) (verified 2026) Official source
3 AAC 90.010, 3 AAC 90.020 (Emergency Rent Review; operative only under a housing emergency declared under repealed AS 34.06) · 3 AAC 90.010, .020 (verified 2026) Official source
Anchorage Municipal Code 12.10.045 · A (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Alaska State Legislature site (www.akleg.gov, read via its print-format section pages): AS 34.03.070, 34.03.140, and 34.03.290 each read twice through independent paths (the single-section view plus a different-range view) with byte-identical results, and AS 34.03.020 read twice to verify the negative (no rent-increase language). The complete chapter (all 42 sections, 34.03.010-34.03.380) was read in one pass and every section heading enumerated for the verified-negative sweeps (no late-fee, grace-period, interest, unconscionability, rent-control, or preemption provision). Every figure that decides an answer here was additionally reconciled against three more sources: the enrolled text of HB 282 (28th Leg.), Ch. 27 SLA 2014, read in full on the official BASIS bill-text system (pins the pet-deposit subsection, the per-tenant trust-accounting rules, and the 30-day damages exception to the 14-day return track, all added 2014); the Alaska Department of Law's official 2024 pamphlet 'The Alaska Landlord & Tenant Act: what it means to you' (law.alaska.gov); and the Alaska Court System's PUB-30 handbook (public.courts.alaska.gov, 10/18 ed.). Preemption negative run against a single-pass official sweep of AS Title 29 (Municipal Government, chs. 29.10-29.71 including 29.35 powers and 29.40 planning): zero rent-control or landlord-tenant provisions. Legislative check 2026-07-11 on official BASIS: all 97 bills passed by the 34th Legislature (2025-2026, status dates through 2026-07-09) enumerated - none on-topic (SB 50, Ch. 19 SLA 25, is municipal comprehensive planning only); full introduced-bill sweep found one pending on-topic bill, HB 115 (90-day rent-increase notice), idle in House State Affairs since 2025-02-26 - flagged, not incorporated. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — AS 09.45.090 and 3 AAC 90 on akleg.gov; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 1, 2026: every section named above, with AS 09.45.060 to 09.45.160, AS 34.03.220, 34.03.310 and 45.45.010, District Court Civil Rule 24, Civil Rules 62 and 85 and Appellate Rules 602 and 603, was read again on akleg.gov (which now serves the Alaska Statutes 2025) and on courts.alaska.gov. The Legislature's per-section bill index shows no bill of the 34th Legislature on any section of AS 34.03 other than HB 115, which was never passed, and no enrolled version exists for HB 115, HB 159 or SB 207. The municipal codes of Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau were searched for rent control and rent stabilization provisions and contain none. The automatic stay on a district court eviction judgment was corrected to the two days of District Court Civil Rule 24(a).