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

Verified July 9, 2026 All Maryland topics →

Check your municipality. Maryland does not preempt local rent regulation — city or county ordinances may impose rent caps, notice rules, and fee limits that are stricter than the state-level rules on this page and are not covered here. Verify your municipality's ordinances before relying on any figure below.

What the state record says

No statewide rent control — but Maryland is a non-preemption state, and three sizable local programs are active: Takoma Park (rent stabilization since 1981, CPI-based annual allowance), Montgomery County (Bill 15-23, eff. 2024-07-23, cap of CPI+3% up to a 6% max, buildings under 23 years old exempt), and Prince George's County (Permanent Rent Stabilization and Protection Act of 2024, eff. 2024-10-17, cap of the lower of 6% or CPI-U+3%). RP § 8-209.1 acknowledges local rent-limit laws and imposes state reporting duties on jurisdictions that adopt them, while its subsection (e) says the section itself may not be construed to AUTHORIZE local rent caps — a no-new-authorization clause, not a preemption. Local ordinances are out of scope v1 but flagged on-page.

Maryland requires true statewide advance notice of rent increases — since October 1, 2023, RP § 8-209 makes a landlord give a month-to-month tenant at least 60 days' written notice of any increase, and tenants on terms longer than a month get 90 days; only weekly tenancies drop to 7 days (21 without a written lease).

Notice travels by first-class mail with a certificate of mailing, or electronically (email, text, or portal with proof of transmission) if the tenant opts in — and a landlord may not condition accepting an application on that election. The section yields where the landlord has already given a termination notice, and it expressly preserves stricter local laws. Maryland has no statewide rent cap, but unlike most states it does not preempt local rent control: Takoma Park, Montgomery County, and Prince George's County all run active rent-stabilization programs, so the county code matters as much as the state code here. Any pre-2023 source saying Maryland has no rent-increase notice statute is out of date.

Maryland rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	60 days
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent is fixed for the term unless the lease provides otherwise. For tenancies with a term LONGER than one month (including year leases rolling over), § 8-209 requires at least 90 days' advance notice of an increase; shorter periodic tenancies use 60 days (over a week up to a month), 7 days (a week or less, written lease), or 21 days (a week or less, no written lease).
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No statewide rent control — but Maryland is a non-preemption state, and three sizable local programs are active: Takoma Park (rent stabilization since 1981, CPI-based annual allowance), Montgomery County (Bill 15-23, eff. 2024-07-23, cap of CPI+3% up to a 6% max, buildings under 23 years old exempt), and Prince George's County (Permanent Rent Stabilization and Protection Act of 2024, eff. 2024-10-17, cap of the lower of 6% or CPI-U+3%). RP § 8-209.1 acknowledges local rent-limit laws and imposes state reporting duties on jurisdictions that adopt them, while its subsection (e) says the section itself may not be construed to AUTHORIZE local rent caps — a no-new-authorization clause, not a preemption. Local ordinances are out of scope v1 but flagged on-page.
Local rent control preempted	No
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_days_month_to_month is 60 per § 8-209 (a true rent-increase notice statute, like WA and unlike the TX/GA/NC derivation states) — the month-to-month bucket is 'term over 1 week up to 1 month.' The 90-day tier for terms over a month is encoded in fixed_term_rules. § 8-209 deliberately mirrors § 8-402(c)(2) termination-notice periods (60-day m2m landlord termination, 90-day year-to-year), so an increase can't be laundered through a shorter termination-and-reoffer; note § 8-402's tenant-side 30-day notice does not apply in Baltimore City, and old sources citing § 8-402(b)(3) use pre-renumbering pinpoints. local_control_preempted = false puts MD in the NJ camp — the comparison-table page should pair them. The 2026 local-option good-cause eviction bill (SB 462/HB 774) died again in the Senate; adjacent, not rent, not flagged.

Statute citations

RP § 8-209 Official source
HB 151 (2023), Ch. 146 Official source
RP § 8-209.1 (c)-(e) Official source
RP § 8-402 (c)(2) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Maryland General Assembly site (mgaleg.maryland.gov): Real Property §§ 8-203 (read in full twice — independent fetches matched verbatim), 8-203.1, 8-208, 8-209 (read twice), 8-209.1, 8-221 (read twice), and 8-402. Session-law provenance verified on official mgaleg bill pages: HB 693 (2024) / Ch. 124 (deposit cap cut, eff. 2024-10-01), HB 151 (2023) / Ch. 146 (§ 8-209 rent-increase notice, eff. 2023-10-01), HB 1076 (2025) / Ch. 564 (§ 8-221 entry notice, eff. 2025-10-01), and HB 80 (2026) status. Interest mechanics cross-checked against the Maryland DHCD official deposit-interest calculator page; local rent-stabilization programs confirmed on official Takoma Park, Montgomery County, and Prince George's County government pages.