Does Indiana have rent control?

No — Indiana has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists at any level in Indiana, and none can be created locally. There is no cap on the size of an increase or on how often rent can rise.

Does Indiana preempt local rent control ordinances?

Indiana law bars counties, cities, and towns from regulating rental rates for privately owned property unless the General Assembly authorizes it, with an exception for housing already subsidized by government funds to provide reduced rents to lower-income tenants.

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

Rent is locked for the whole fixed term unless the lease itself provides for a change. A renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease promises, because no notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration.

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

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Indiana landlords must give at least 30 days' written notice before raising rent on a month-to-month tenancy — the default rule of IC 32-31-5-4, which requires 30 days' written notice before 'modifying the rental agreement' unless the written lease itself sets different terms.

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That waivability is the catch most summaries omit: a lease clause allowing changes on, say, 14 days' notice displaces the statutory 30 days. The backstop is the termination framework — a month-to-month tenant who declines the new rent is entitled to notice equal to one rental period to leave (IC 32-31-1-4; one month's written notice for a tenancy at will under IC 32-31-1-1) — and a fixed-term lease locks the rent until it expires. There is no limit on how much or how often rent can rise: Indiana has no rent control, cities and towns are expressly forbidden to regulate rental rates (IC 32-31-1-20(b)), and since the 2021 override of the governor's veto of SEA 148, they are also barred from regulating virtually any other aspect of the landlord-tenant relationship, from deposits to landlord fees.

Indiana rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	30 days
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent is locked for the whole fixed term unless the lease itself provides for a change. A renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease promises, because no notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration. IC 32-31-5-4's 30-day modification notice is expressly a default ('unless otherwise provided by a written rental agreement') and does not let a landlord rewrite an unexpired fixed-term lease. No notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration (IC 32-31-1-8(1)-(2)), so a renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease itself promises.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No rent control exists at any level in Indiana, and none can be created locally. There is no cap on the size of an increase or on how often rent can rise. IC 32-31-1-20(b) provides that a unit 'may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property, through a zoning ordinance or otherwise, unless the regulation is authorized by an act of the general assembly.' Subsection (a) carves out only property receiving government funds allocated expressly for reduced rents to low- or moderate-income tenants (subject to IC 36-1-3-8.5).
Local rent regulation	Indiana law bars counties, cities, and towns from regulating rental rates for privately owned property unless the General Assembly authorizes it, with an exception for housing already subsidized by government funds to provide reduced rents to lower-income tenants.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Indiana Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified July 10, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/indiana/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Indiana statute in the citations section below.

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Notes and caveats

30 days is a real statute, not a derived figure — The figure comes straight from IC 32-31-5-4, unchanged since P.L.2-2002 — not a termination-notice derivation like Texas's, Georgia's, or Arizona's.
Two caveats ride with the 30-day figure — It is a default — a written lease can override it — and chapter 5 applies only to rental agreements entered into or renewed after June 30, 1999. Outside a written override, waiver of the chapter is void (IC 32-31-5-1).
Stale-source trap: 'no notice statute' charts are out of date — Older 50-state charts say Indiana has no rent-increase notice statute. That has been wrong since at least the 2002 recodification.
How the preemption got here: a vetoed bill, overridden — The rent-rate preemption in IC 32-31-1-20 dates in substance to the 2002 recodification. SEA 148 (2020) reworded subsection (b) and added subsection (c), which forbids local regulation of tenant screening, security deposits, lease applications, leasing terms and conditions, disclosures, party rights, and 'any fee charged by a landlord,' declaring violating ordinances 'void and unenforceable.' Gov. Holcomb vetoed it on March 25, 2020 (pandemic timing, breadth concerns); the General Assembly overrode the veto — Senate Feb. 8, 2021 (Roll Call 64: 30-17), House Feb. 17, 2021 (Roll Call 159: 67-33) — and it became Public Law 168 (cited P.L.168-2020), the statute that killed Indianapolis's 2020 tenant-protection ordinances.
The current text carries a post-override cleanup — The current subsection (c) contains all seven enumerated items and the void-and-unenforceable clause. The official history line also shows a later amendment by P.L.215-2021, SEC.1 (post-override cleanup year), which the current text already reflects.
HEA 1001-2026 changes nothing here — The 2026 law (signed March 2026) limits local zoning and permitting powers but touches no landlord-tenant field.

Common questions: Indiana 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 Indiana?: 30 days.
Does Indiana have rent control?: No — Indiana has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists at any level in Indiana, and none can be created locally. There is no cap on the size of an increase or on how often rent can rise.
Does Indiana preempt local rent control ordinances?: Indiana law bars counties, cities, and towns from regulating rental rates for privately owned property unless the General Assembly authorizes it, with an exception for housing already subsidized by government funds to provide reduced rents to lower-income tenants.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Indiana?: Rent is locked for the whole fixed term unless the lease itself provides for a change. A renewal-time increase needs only whatever notice the lease promises, because no notice is required to end a tenancy at its natural expiration.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Indiana?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

IC 32-31-5-4 (verified 2026) Official source
IC 32-31-1-20 (b)-(c) (verified 2026) Official source
IC 32-31-1-1; IC 32-31-1-2; IC 32-31-1-4 (verified 2026) Official source
SEA 148-2020 (P.L. 168; veto overridden Feb. 17, 2021) (verified 2026) Official source
IC 32-31-5-4 (mirror) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror

How this record was verified: Official-host verbatim reads on the iga.in.gov 2025 code viewer, completed 2026-07-10: IC 32-31-1-20 in full (subsections (a)-(c), the seven-item enumerated list in (c), the void-and-unenforceable clause, and the history line 'As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.266-2017, SEC.1; P.L.168-2020, SEC.17; P.L.215-2021, SEC.1'), IC 32-31-1-6, and IC 32-31-1-7 — all matching the previously recorded mirror-verified text with no substantive differences. SEA 148-2020's designation was pinned from the official iga.in.gov bill record: vetoed 2020-03-25, veto overridden Senate 2021-02-08 (Roll Call 64: 30-17) and House 2021-02-17 (Roll Call 159: 67-33), 'Public Law 168' entered 2021-02-17; the code viewer cites it as P.L.168-2020. Original verification basis (2026-07-09): Indiana's official code viewer requires interactive access, so text was verified on two independent code mirrors and reconciled verbatim: FindLaw (codes.findlaw.com, 'current as of January 01, 2026') and Justia's archived official-text PDFs of IC 32-31 chapters 1, 3, and 5 (statecodesfiles.justia.com, 2013 edition, carrying the official 'As added by P.L.' history lines). Sections double-read across both hosts with figures matching verbatim: IC 32-31-3-12, 32-31-3-14, 32-31-3-15, 32-31-3-16 (45-day deadline, forfeiture rule, attorney fees), 32-31-5-4 (30-day modification notice), 32-31-5-6 (entry, all subsections), 32-31-1-1, 32-31-1-2, and 32-31-1-4 (termination-notice periods); 32-31-3-12/-14/-15/-16 were additionally read on law.onecle.com. IC 32-31-1-20 (preemption) was read verbatim on FindLaw (current through Jan. 1, 2026) and in the pre-amendment 2013 official text; the current-text official-host read was completed 2026-07-10 (see above). Scope sections IC 32-31-2.9-1/-3/-4, 32-31-5-1, and 32-31-5-3 read on FindLaw/2013 PDF. 2025-2026 session sweeps (IGA subject list 'Landlords and Tenants', LegiScan) on 2026-07-09 found no enacted change to any answer in this record; 2026 bills SB 127 and HB 1435 died at the session's March 2026 sine die adjournment, and HEA 1001-2026 (signed) addresses zoning/permitting only.