Does North Dakota have rent control?

No — North Dakota has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists anywhere in North Dakota, and state law expressly forbids it locally.

Does North Dakota preempt local rent control ordinances?

North Dakota law bars political subdivisions from adopting ordinances that would control the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial property, except as to residential property the subdivision itself owns.

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

Rent is fixed by contract for the term, and no statute addresses mid-term or renewal increases.

How much notice is required to raise the rent in North Dakota?

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North Dakota landlords must give month-to-month tenants at least 30 days' written notice before the end of a month to raise the rent, under an express change-of-terms statute (N.D. Cent. Code 47-16-07) that lets the landlord establish new 'terms, rent, and conditions' effective at the expiration of the month if the tenant stays.

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The 30 days are anchored to month-end: the change takes effect at the expiration of a month, so notice given mid-month operates at the end of the following month if fewer than 30 days remain in the current one. The notice must be in writing but may be served in any reasonable manner that actually informs the tenant. A tenant who receives a change notice has a statutory escape hatch: instead of the usual one-calendar-month termination notice, the tenant may end the tenancy at the end of the month by giving at least 25 days' notice (47-16-15(3)). There is no limit on the size or frequency of increases — North Dakota has no rent control, and state law expressly bars cities and counties from controlling rents on private residential or commercial property.

North Dakota 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 fixed by contract for the term, and no statute addresses mid-term or renewal increases. Two adjacent rules matter at renewal. An automatic-renewal clause in a residential lease of two months or more is unenforceable unless the landlord gives written notice of the renewal provision (personally or by first-class mail) at least 30 days before the current lease expires — otherwise the lease expires and converts to a month-to-month tenancy (47-16-06.1). And a holdover residential tenant whose rent the landlord accepts is presumed renewed as a month-to-month tenancy rather than for another full term, except under an automatic-renewal clause (47-16-06). Once month-to-month, the 47-16-07 change-of-terms machinery governs increases.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No rent control exists anywhere in North Dakota, and state law expressly forbids it locally. N.D. Cent. Code 47-16-02.1 provides that a political subdivision may not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential or commercial property; the section does not impair a political subdivision's right to manage and control residential property in which it has a fee title interest.
Local rent regulation	North Dakota law bars political subdivisions from adopting ordinances that would control the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial property, except as to residential property the subdivision itself owns.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

30 days is an express statute here, not a derivation — In many states the 30-day figure is inferred from a termination statute; North Dakota's is not. 47-16-07 names rent directly: the served notice establishes 'the terms, rent, and conditions specified'.
The clock is anchored to month-end, not rolling — The statute requires notice 'at least thirty days before the expiration of the month,' with the change effective 'at the expiration of the month.' That is not a rolling 30 days from the day the notice is served.
The tenant's 25-day escape hatch after a change notice — A tenant who receives a change-of-terms notice may end the tenancy at the end of the month on at least 25 days' notice (47-16-15(3)) — shorter than the ordinary termination notice.
One calendar month, not '30 days,' is the baseline termination unit — Ordinary month-to-month termination takes one calendar month's written notice (47-16-15(2)). A calendar month is a different unit from 30 days, and the distinction matters when counting.
A longer tenant-notice clause must be separately initialed — A lease clause requiring the tenant to give more than one month's termination notice must be separately initialed by the tenant, or it collapses back to one calendar month (47-16-15(4)).
Local rent control is expressly preempted — 47-16-02.1 is an express statewide rent-control preemption, carving out only residential property in which the political subdivision holds a fee-title interest. The live local control seen in states like New Jersey and Maryland does not exist here.
No frequency limit, and nothing moved in 2025 — There is no limit on how often rent may be raised anywhere in N.D. Cent. Code ch. 47-16. No 2025 bill touched 47-16-07, 47-16-15, or 47-16-02.1.

Common questions: North Dakota rent increase notice

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How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in North Dakota?: 30 days.
Does North Dakota have rent control?: No — North Dakota has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists anywhere in North Dakota, and state law expressly forbids it locally.
Does North Dakota preempt local rent control ordinances?: North Dakota law bars political subdivisions from adopting ordinances that would control the amount of rent charged for private residential or commercial property, except as to residential property the subdivision itself owns.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in North Dakota?: Rent is fixed by contract for the term, and no statute addresses mid-term or renewal increases.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in North Dakota?: Not addressed by statute.

Citations

N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-07 (verified 2026) Official source
N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-15 · (2)-(5) (verified 2026) Official source
N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-02.1 (verified 2026) Official source
N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-06.1 (verified 2026) Official source
N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-06 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text in the official North Dakota Century Code chapter PDFs on ndlegis.gov on October 1, 2026: chapter 47-16 in full, 47-32-01 and 47-32-02, 9-08-03 and 9-08-04, and 47-30.2-04. The Legislative Assembly's code page states that the posted code reflects all changes approved by the 69th Legislative Assembly, and the chapter 47-16 file already prints the text that took effect on January 1, 2026. Figures read: one-month deposit cap; two-month felony and prior-judgment exceptions; pet deposit of the greater of $2,500 or two months' rent; 30-day itemized return; nine-month interest threshold; treble damages; 30-day written change-of-terms notice covering rent; 25-day tenant termination after a change notice; one-calendar-month termination of a month-to-month tenancy; no entry-hour figure. Amendment history read in the session laws: 2015 ch. 312 (HB 1192, separate pet deposit), 2017 ch. 316 (HB 1220, felony exception), 2019 ch. 379 (HB 1150, prior-judgment exception), 2021 ch. 337 (SB 2048, unclaimed-property cross-reference), 2025 ch. 145 (HB 1489, 47-16-17.1(2)(a), effective January 1, 2026) and 2025 ch. 423 (HB 1610, new 47-16-20.1, effective August 1, 2025). 2025 bills that failed, read on the official bill pages: HB 1272 (inspections and deposits, House 41-47 on 2025-02-07), SB 2236 (late-fee cap, Senate 7-39 on 2025-02-04), SB 2237 (5-41) and SB 2366 (8-37); SB 2238 was enacted as 47-32-05 (2025 ch. 427, effective August 1, 2025). The 69th Legislative Assembly also sat in special session on January 21-23 and September 2-4, 2026, and neither session amended Title 47. There is no regular session in 2026; the next is January 2027. Negative findings (no late-fee statute, no entry-hour figure, no deposit-interest rate figure, no frequency limits) rest on the complete section list of chapter 47-16.