Does Iowa have rent control?

No — Iowa has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No statewide rent control, and no Iowa city or county may adopt any. State law has expressly preempted local rent regulation since 2000.

Does Iowa preempt local rent control ordinances?

Iowa law prohibits both cities and counties from adopting any ordinance limiting the amount of rent that can be charged for private residential or commercial property, apart from housing the local government itself has an interest in.

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

Rent cannot go up during a fixed term, and in Iowa that is a statutory bar rather than only a contract point. A rent increase may not take effect before the original rental agreement, or any renewal or extension of it, expires.

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

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Iowa landlords must give every tenant written notice of any rent increase at least 30 days before it takes effect — an express statutory requirement in Iowa Code 562A.13(5), not merely a convention derived from termination notice — and the increase cannot take effect before the tenant's current lease term or renewal expires.

Cited to Iowa Code 562A.13 (5) and 3 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 2026

There is no limit on the size or frequency of increases: Iowa has no rent control, and since 2000 state law has expressly barred every city and county from adopting any ordinance limiting the rent that can be charged for private residential or commercial property. One big exception lives in a different chapter: tenants renting a lot in a manufactured home community or mobile home park are owed 90 days' written notice of a lot-rent increase under Iowa Code 562B.14(7), a protection the legislature expanded in 2022. A 2026 bill that would have required 180 days' notice and CPI-based justification for mobile-home lot rent increases (SF 2225) died without a committee vote when the legislature adjourned in May 2026.

Iowa rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	30 days
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent cannot go up during a fixed term, and in Iowa that is a statutory bar rather than only a contract point. A rent increase may not take effect before the original rental agreement, or any renewal or extension of it, expires. 562A.13(5), second sentence, provides that the effective date of any rent increase 'shall not be sooner than the expiration date of original rental agreement or any renewal or extension thereof.'
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No statewide rent control, and no Iowa city or county may adopt any. State law has expressly preempted local rent regulation since 2000. Iowa preempts local rent regulation in two parallel provisions, Iowa Code 364.3(9) (cities) and 331.304(10) (counties), each barring any ordinance 'imposing any limitation on the amount of rent that can be charged for leasing private residential or commercial property,' with a carve-out only for property in which the city or county itself has a property interest. The preemption has been in force since 2000 (2000 Acts ch 1083) — not 2019 as often claimed — and contains no manufactured-housing exception, so cities cannot cap mobile-home lot rents either.
Local rent regulation	Iowa law prohibits both cities and counties from adopting any ordinance limiting the amount of rent that can be charged for private residential or commercial property, apart from housing the local government itself has an interest in.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

The 30 days is an express statute, not a derivation — Iowa's statute carries an express rent-increase notice provision — 562A.13(5): 'Each tenant shall be notified, in writing, of any rent increase at least thirty days before the effective date.' 562A.34(2) (the 30-day month-to-month termination notice, keyed to the periodic rental date) is cited as context because the two provisions work together for month-to-month tenants.
Mobile-home lots get 90 days, not 30 — the 30-day figure applies to chapter 562A dwellings only. Manufactured home community and mobile home park lot tenancies get 90 days under 562B.14(7) — raised from 60 days by 2022 Acts ch 1070, applicable to increases first noticed on or after May 17, 2022 — and secondary sources regularly mix the two chapters.
Dead-bill debunk: no 180-day Iowa notice is pending or enacted — SF 2225 (2026) would have replaced 562B.14(7) with a 180-day notice plus a CPI-justification regime; it died in Senate Judiciary subcommittee at sine die on May 3, 2026, so claims of a pending or enacted 180-day Iowa notice are false.
The preemption is routinely miscited as 364.3(12) — that subsection is the 2017 employment-terms preemption. The rent provisions are 364.3(9) (cities) and 331.304(10) (counties).
'Iowa banned local rent control in 2019' is folklore — 2000 Acts ch 1083, approved April 13, 2000, added the provision to both sections as new subsections, and both sections' history lines credit that act — the preemption dates to 2000.
No size or frequency rules exist — the increase-size and frequency answers are empty because no such provisions exist in chapter 562A.

Common questions: Iowa rent increase notice

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How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Iowa?: 30 days.
Does Iowa have rent control?: No — Iowa has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No statewide rent control, and no Iowa city or county may adopt any. State law has expressly preempted local rent regulation since 2000.
Does Iowa preempt local rent control ordinances?: Iowa law prohibits both cities and counties from adopting any ordinance limiting the amount of rent that can be charged for private residential or commercial property, apart from housing the local government itself has an interest in.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Iowa?: Rent cannot go up during a fixed term, and in Iowa that is a statutory bar rather than only a contract point. A rent increase may not take effect before the original rental agreement, or any renewal or extension of it, expires.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Iowa?: Not addressed by statute.

Citations

Iowa Code 562A.13 · (5) (verified 2026) Official source
Iowa Code 562A.34 · (2) (verified 2026) Official source
Iowa Code 364.3 · (9) (verified 2026) Official source
Iowa Code 331.304 · (10) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Iowa Legislature site (legis.iowa.gov), Iowa Code 2026 section PDFs: 562A.12, 562A.9, 562A.13, 562A.19, 562A.34, and 562A.35 each read on the official PDF, with every decisive figure matching verbatim (2-month deposit cap, 30-day return clock and its dual trigger of termination plus receipt of the tenant's mailing address or delivery instructions, first-5-years deposit interest to landlord, 1-year forwarding-address forfeiture, punitive damages capped at twice the monthly rental payment, $700 late-fee threshold with $12/day-$60/month and $20/day-$100/month tiers, 30-day written rent-increase notice, 24-hour entry notice, 30-day month-to-month termination notice, one-month's-rent damages floor for unlawful entry). Also read once (official): 562A.28 and 562A.29 (cross-referenced entry rights), 331.304 (county rent-control preemption), and chapter 562B sections 562B.10/562B.13/562B.14 for cross-chapter trap mapping. Rent-control preemption in 364.3(9) and 331.304(10) dated from 2000 Acts ch 1083, which added both subsections and which both history lines credit. Pending-bill check 2026-07-10: 91st GA adjourned sine die 2026-05-03; SF 2225 (omnibus tenant bill: third late-fee tier at $1,400 rent, 180-day mobile-home rent notice) died in Senate Judiciary subcommittee; HF 481/482 (2025 mobile-home protections) also died; 2026 enacted housing bills (SF 2369 ADUs, SF 2448 HOA disclosure, SF 2472 FirstHome) touch none of the four topics. On October 1, 2026 every section the security deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction answers rest on was read again on legis.iowa.gov in the Iowa Code 2026, which carries the 2025 session and not the 2026 session: chapters 562A, 562B, 648 and 631 with sections 4.1, 3.7, 618.15, 626.14, 364.3, 331.301 and 331.304, and the Iowa Court Rules. The Code and Acts Sections Amended lists for 2025 and 2026 show no act amending chapter 562A, 562B or 648; 2026 Iowa Acts chapter 1192 (House File 2770), which raised two court fees on July 1, 2026, was read for the eviction answers.