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

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

Does Arkansas have rent control?

No — Arkansas has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Arkansas has no rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and no city or county may create one. Local rent control is preempted statewide twice over, by A.C.A. 14-16-601 and its municipal twin 14-54-1409.

Does Arkansas preempt local rent control ordinances?

Cities and counties in Arkansas cannot regulate the amount charged for rent, rental application fees, or rental deposits on private residential or commercial property — state law preempts all three, leaving only the state's own deposit-cap law and housing the local government itself owns (Ark. Code Ann. §§ 14-16-601, 14-54-1409).

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

Fixed-term rent is locked by the contract unless the lease provides otherwise, and at renewal the landlord may propose any rent. No Arkansas statute addresses rent changes for any lease type.

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

Verified October 2, 2026 2 statements held All Arkansas topics →

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

SB 501 (2025 RS) — 'Tenant Possessions Recovery Act' — Would have required a landlord to give a tenant at least 14 days' written notice before the scheduled repossession date after a court issues a writ of possession, and created a process for tenants to recover personal possessions left behind. Adjacent to, rather than within, the deposit, rent-increase, late-fee, entry and eviction topics covered here, but it was the session's principal tenant-side bill. Status: Dead. Filed 2025-03-18, amended and re-referred to Senate Judiciary 2025-03-20, died in committee at the 2025-05-05 sine die adjournment. The 2026 fiscal session passed no landlord-tenant legislation; watch for a refile in the 2027 regular session (Arkansas holds regular sessions in odd years). (checked July 10, 2026).

Arkansas has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase, no limit on how large an increase can be, and no limit on how often rent can rise.

Cited to A.C.A. § 18-17-704 (Periodic tenancy — Holdover remedies; source of the month-to-month and week-to-week termination derivation; unamended since Acts 2007, No. 1004) (a)-(b) and 2 more cited sources · Verified October 2, 2026, 2 statements held at an earlier date

The practical floor is the periodic-tenancy termination rule of the statewide Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007: either party may end a month-to-month tenancy on 30 days' written notice (week-to-week: 7 days), so a rent increase operates as an offer the tenant can refuse by leaving with 30 days' symmetry — and the Attorney General's guidance tells landlords to give at least one rental period's notice before raising rent. Unlike Arkansas's security-deposit law, this 30-day rule has no small-landlord exemption; it covers every residential rental agreement in the state outside narrow categories like hotels, employee housing, and agricultural leases. Rent control is preempted statewide, and a 2025 law also bars cities and counties from regulating rental application fees and rental deposit amounts, leaving the state's own two-month deposit cap as the only deposit ceiling.

Arkansas 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	Fixed-term rent is locked by the contract unless the lease provides otherwise, and at renewal the landlord may propose any rent. No Arkansas statute addresses rent changes for any lease type.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Arkansas has no rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and no city or county may create one. Local rent control is preempted statewide twice over, by A.C.A. 14-16-601 and its municipal twin 14-54-1409. Both sections come from Acts 1993, No. 545 and bar any local governmental unit from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing an ordinance controlling rent for private residential or commercial property. Act 459 of 2025 (effective August 5, 2025) expanded both sections to also preempt local control of RENTAL APPLICATION FEES and RENTAL DEPOSITS ('except as provided under § 18-16-304,' preserving the state's own deposit cap), and declared the preemption applicable to all landlords, property owners, property managers, tenants, prospective tenants, and real estate companies doing business in the state.
Local rent regulation	Cities and counties in Arkansas cannot regulate the amount charged for rent, rental application fees, or rental deposits on private residential or commercial property — state law preempts all three, leaving only the state's own deposit-cap law and housing the local government itself owns (Ark. Code Ann. §§ 14-16-601, 14-54-1409).
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Arkansas Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified October 2, 2026; held statements carry their own dates), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/arkansas/" — 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

An empty notice figure means no statute, not zero notice — No rent-increase-notice statute exists, so the month-to-month figure is left empty under the same derivation convention used for TX, GA, NC, TN, and KY. The practical floor — the statewide 30-day month-to-month termination rule of 18-17-704(b) — is stated in the summary.
Do not reach for 18-16-101 as the termination rule — That section is the CRIMINAL failure-to-vacate statute (10 days' written notice after rent default, $1-$25-per-day misdemeanor fines) — an eviction oddity, not a tenancy-termination or rent-increase rule — and no civil notice-to-quit statute in chapter 16 displaces 18-17-704 for residential tenancies.
No small-landlord escape here — the mirror image of the deposit trap — 18-17-201 applies chapter 17 to every 'rental agreement, wherever made, for a dwelling unit located within this state,' with only the 18-17-202 exclusion list (institutional, purchase-contract, fraternal, transient hotel/motel taxed as lodging, employment-conditioned, condo/co-op, agricultural, shelters) — no unit-count exemption.
Default tenancy — Absent a fixed term, the tenancy is month-to-month — week-to-week for roomers paying weekly (18-17-401(c)).
Stale-source trap on the preemption statute — Unofficial code mirrors still show pre-Act-459 text for 14-16-601 under the old title 'Rent control preemption.' Current law — in effect since August 5, 2025, the date the Attorney General gave for acts of the 2025 regular session passed without an emergency clause (Opinion No. 2025-032) — is titled 'Rent, rental application fee, and rental deposit control preemption,' and the official act PDF is the correct citation for it.

Common questions: Arkansas 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 Arkansas?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Arkansas have rent control?: No — Arkansas has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Arkansas has no rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and no city or county may create one. Local rent control is preempted statewide twice over, by A.C.A. 14-16-601 and its municipal twin 14-54-1409.
Does Arkansas preempt local rent control ordinances?: Cities and counties in Arkansas cannot regulate the amount charged for rent, rental application fees, or rental deposits on private residential or commercial property — state law preempts all three, leaving only the state's own deposit-cap law and housing the local government itself owns (Ark. Code Ann. §§ 14-16-601, 14-54-1409).
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Arkansas?: Fixed-term rent is locked by the contract unless the lease provides otherwise, and at renewal the landlord may propose any rent. No Arkansas statute addresses rent changes for any lease type.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Arkansas?: Not addressed by statute.

Statements held at an earlier date

Arkansas publishes its code only on a site whose terms do not allow automated reading, so this page is verified on the acts the legislature publishes and on court and agency sources. The 2 statements below rest on text only the code prints. Each keeps the date it was last verified; every other statement on this page was confirmed on October 2, 2026 ( how held statements work).

Both local rent-control preemption sections come from Acts 1993, No. 545. Ark. Code §§ 14-16-601 and 14-54-1409 (their origin) · last verified July 10, 2026
Outside chapter 17, no Arkansas statute sets a late-fee cap, grace period, lease-clause condition or daily-fee rule; a rent-increase notice or limit, or state rent control; an entry notice period, time-of-day limit, emergency-entry rule or remedy for abusive entry; a civil notice-to-quit that displaces § 18-17-704; a rule on a peaceable lockout or a utility shutoff; or a general bar on retaliation. Ark. Code Title 18, chapter 16 (the list of sections) · last verified July 10, 2026

Citations

A.C.A. § 18-17-704 (Periodic tenancy — Holdover remedies; source of the month-to-month and week-to-week termination derivation; unamended since Acts 2007, No. 1004) · (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Official source
Act 459 of 2025 (SB 91) — official session law; current text of the rent/application-fee/deposit control preemption in 14-16-601 and 14-54-1409 · §§ 1-2 (verified 2026) Official source
Arkansas Attorney General, Landlord and Tenant Rights (official guidance: 'notice of at least one rental period before raising the rent') (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Arkansas's official code is published via a LexisNexis portal without stable deep links (GA/TN-class sourcing), so verification pairs two independent current-code mirrors with official arkleg.state.ar.us session-law PDFs: every section that carries an answer here (A.C.A. 18-16-303, 18-16-304, 18-16-305, 18-16-306, 18-17-201, 18-17-202, 18-17-401, 18-17-602, 18-17-704, 18-17-705, 14-16-601) was read verbatim on FindLaw (current through 2024-03-28) and independently re-read on the Justia 2024 Arkansas Code edition , with all reads matching; chapter 18-17 was additionally read in FULL from a mirrored chapter PDF for negative checks (no late-fee, rent-increase, or entry-notice provision exists). Every amendment was traced to the official act text read from arkleg PDFs: Act 559 of 2009 (deposit return 30->60 days; 18-17-501 rewritten to defer to 18-16-301 et seq.), Act 1052 of 2021 (18-17-502 habitability, context), and Act 459 of 2025 (preemption expanded to application fees and deposits). Corroborated against the Arkansas Attorney General's landlord-tenant page (official state source) and Legal Aid of Arkansas. 2025 regular session swept for landlord-tenant acts (only Act 459 touches a figure shown here; SB 501 died in committee 2025-05-05 per the official arkleg bill page); the 2026 fiscal session amended no section of Title 18 or Title 14. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — §§ 14-16-601, 14-54-1409 and 18-17-502 and Acts 2025, No. 459 on arkleg.state.ar.us and the State's official code service; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 2026: the deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction answers were read again on the enrolled acts on arkleg.state.ar.us (Act 1004 of 2007 with Acts 311, 482 and 559 of 2009, Act 271 of 2011, Act 315 of 2019 and Act 1052 of 2021 for chapter 18-17; Act 1431 of 2005, Acts 535 and 728 of 2007, Act 1052 of 2021 and Act 414 of 2023 for the unlawful detainer sections; Act 159 of 2017; Act 459 of 2025), with the legislature's register of code sections amended for every session from 2013 to 2026, the court rules and opinions on opinions.arcourts.gov and Attorney General Opinion No. 2025-032. The code itself was not opened for that reading, and no act published there sets out the 1979 deposit sections 18-16-301 to 18-16-304 and 18-16-306. The statements that rest on text only the code prints are held: each is listed with the date it was last verified. Every other statement on the deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction pages was confirmed on October 2, 2026.