Does Oregon have rent control?

Yes — Oregon has statewide rent control or stabilization. Oregon caps most rent increases statewide at 9.5% for calendar year 2026. The state recalculates and republishes that maximum every September 30, and it applies to every tenancy other than week-to-week.

Does Oregon preempt local rent control ordinances?

Oregon law bars cities and counties from enacting local rent control, with narrow exceptions for subsidized housing, condominium conversions, and disasters, while a separate statewide law caps most annual rent increases.

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

Fixed-term tenancies sit under the same statewide limits as any other, so rent is locked for the first year, capped, and raisable only once a year on 90 days' notice.

How often can a landlord raise the rent in Oregon?

Rent cannot be raised at all during the first year after the tenancy begins, and no more than once in any 12-month period after that (ORS 90.323(2)(a), (c)).

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

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Oregon caps most residential rent increases at 9.5% for calendar year 2026 and requires at least 90 days' written notice before any increase takes effect.

Cited to ORS 90.323 (2)-(6) and 4 more Oregon statutes · Verified July 9, 2026

The cap — the lesser of 10% or 7% plus West Region inflation, recalculated and published by the state by each September 30 — has applied statewide since 2019, making Oregon the nation's first rent-stabilization state. Rent can never be raised during the first year of a tenancy and no more than once in any 12-month period afterward, and the notice must state the increase amount, the new rent, and the effective date. New buildings are exempt for 15 years from their first certificate of occupancy, as are units rented at reduced rates under government affordability programs, but even exempt landlords owe the 90-day notice with the facts supporting the exemption. Charging above the cap costs the landlord three months' rent plus the tenant's actual damages. Week-to-week tenancies need only 7 days' notice and are not capped, manufactured-home parks with more than 30 spaces have a stricter 6% limit, and cities and counties remain barred from enacting their own rent control by ORS 91.225.

Oregon rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	90 days
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Fixed-term tenancies sit under the same statewide limits as any other, so rent is locked for the first year, capped, and raisable only once a year on 90 days' notice. Those limits are: no rent increase during the first year after the tenancy begins, at least 90 days' written notice before any increase takes effect, no more than one increase in any 12-month period, and no increase above the ORS 90.324(1) cap unless the unit is exempt. ORS 90.323 applies to every tenancy other than week-to-week, fixed-term included. Week-to-week tenancies instead require 7 days' written notice and are not subject to the cap.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	Yes
Rent control details	Oregon caps most rent increases statewide at 9.5% for calendar year 2026. The state recalculates and republishes that maximum every September 30, and it applies to every tenancy other than week-to-week. Oregon was the first statewide rent-stabilization state (SB 608, 2019; cap formula amended by SB 611, 2023). Under ORS 90.324(1) the Department of Administrative Services (Office of Economic Analysis) calculates the maximum annual increase for the following calendar year as the LESSER of 10 percent or 7 percent plus the September annual 12-month average change in the CPI for All Urban Consumers, West Region (All Items), and must publish it in a press release by September 30. For calendar 2026 the maximum is 9.5% (7% + 2.5% CPI); 2025 was 10.0%. Exemptions under ORS 90.323(5) cover units whose first certificate of occupancy issued less than 15 years before the notice date, and units where the landlord provides reduced rent under a federal, state, or local program or subsidy. Exempt landlords must still give the 90-day notice stating the facts supporting the exemption. An anti-churn rule in 90.323(4) provides that after a first-year 30-day no-cause termination, the next tenancy's rent may not exceed what the terminated tenant could lawfully have been charged. Under 90.323(6), an increase violating the cap or the re-rental rule makes the landlord liable for three months' periodic rent plus the tenant's actual damages. Manufactured-dwelling-park and marina tenancies run a separate regime (ORS 90.600): capped at a flat 6% where the facility has more than 30 spaces (HB 3054, 2025), and at the 90.324 formula (9.5% for 2026) for 30 or fewer spaces.
Local rent regulation	Oregon law bars cities and counties from enacting local rent control, with narrow exceptions for subsidized housing, condominium conversions, and disasters, while a separate statewide law caps most annual rent increases.
Frequency limits	Rent cannot be raised at all during the first year after the tenancy begins, and no more than once in any 12-month period after that (ORS 90.323(2)(a), (c)).

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Oregon Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified July 9, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/oregon/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Oregon statute in the citations section below.

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Notes and caveats

A living figure — the cap is republished every September 30 — under ORS 90.324(2) the Department of Administrative Services (Office of Economic Analysis) publishes the following calendar year's maximum increase by September 30, through a press release and its rent-stabilization page. The 2027 figure is due by September 30, 2026, so any 9.5% figure should be re-checked after that date.
The 2026 figure is triple-sourced — the OEA page states "For 2026, the maximum allowable rent increase percentage is 9.5%.", and the DAS newsroom post of September 30, 2025 and its correction of October 1, 2025 carry the same figure.
Stale-source trap: the pre-2023 formula had no 10% ceiling — before SB 611 (2023) the cap was simply 7% plus CPI, which produced 14.6% in 2023. Any source still quoting that formula, or that figure, is describing superseded law.
Old cap figures still circulating — 9.9% (2022), 14.6% (2023), 10.0% (2024) and 10.0% (2025) all remain in circulation online; only the current year's published percentage governs.
The "6% cap" headlines are about parks, not apartments — the 6% figure from HB 3054 (2025) applies only to manufactured-dwelling-park and marina facilities with more than 30 spaces under ORS 90.600. It has nothing to do with ordinary apartment tenancies.
Statewide cap plus local preemption — the original combination — Oregon both caps rent statewide and bars cities and counties from setting their own controls; Washington copied the combination in 2025. The exceptions inside ORS 91.225 — subsidized-property rent limits, condominium-conversion periods and post-disaster controls — do not change that headline.
What Portland's ordinances still do — Portland's relocation-assistance and longer-notice ordinances survive preemption because they do not control the rent itself. Those local rules are not covered here.
The penalty reaches the cap, not notice defects — ORS 90.323(6) exposes a landlord to three months' rent plus actual damages for exceeding the cap and for violating the (4) re-rental rule — not for a bare defect in the notice.
Notice length does not scale with the size of the increase — 90 days applies regardless of how large the increase is. An above-cap increase by an exempt landlord simply adds the facts supporting the exemption to the same notice.

Common questions: Oregon 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 Oregon?: 90 days.
Does Oregon have rent control?: Yes — Oregon has statewide rent control or stabilization. Oregon caps most rent increases statewide at 9.5% for calendar year 2026. The state recalculates and republishes that maximum every September 30, and it applies to every tenancy other than week-to-week.
Does Oregon preempt local rent control ordinances?: Oregon law bars cities and counties from enacting local rent control, with narrow exceptions for subsidized housing, condominium conversions, and disasters, while a separate statewide law caps most annual rent increases.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Oregon?: Fixed-term tenancies sit under the same statewide limits as any other, so rent is locked for the first year, capped, and raisable only once a year on 90 days' notice.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Oregon?: Rent cannot be raised at all during the first year after the tenancy begins, and no more than once in any 12-month period after that (ORS 90.323(2)(a), (c)).

Statute citations

ORS 90.323 (2)-(6) (verified 2026) Official source
ORS 90.324 (1)-(2) (verified 2026) Official source
ORS 91.225 (2)-(5) (verified 2026) Official source
DAS Office of Economic Analysis — Rent Stabilization (official annual cap publication) (verified 2026) Official source
DAS newsroom — 2026 Rent Stabilization Percentages (corrected 2025-10-01) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Dual-host reads of statute text: official Oregon Legislature ORS chapter pages (oregonlegislature.gov ors090.html and ors091.html) plus the oregon.public.law mirror (current through the 2023 ORS edition and 2024 session), with verbatim re-reads of ORS 90.323(2)-(6) and 90.324(1)-(2). Every key number (31-day deposit return, 2x penalty, 4th-day late-fee grace, 6%/day and 5%/5-day fee caps, 24 hours' actual notice, 90-day increase notice, first-year bar, once-per-12-months limit, 15-year exemption, 3-months-rent penalty, lesser-of-10%-or-7%+CPI formula) was read on both hosts. The annually-published cap figure was verified on the official DAS Office of Economic Analysis rent-stabilization page (read twice independently) and cross-confirmed against the DAS newsroom press releases of 2025-09-30 and the 2025-10-01 correction: 9.5% for calendar 2026 (CPI-U West Region September 12-month average of 2.5%). 2026 short-session sweep via the Oregon Real Estate Agency's official 2026 Legislative Update: SB 1523, HB 4120, HB 4123 all enacted, none changes a v1 field.