How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Pennsylvania?

No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).

Does Pennsylvania have rent control?

No — Pennsylvania has no statewide rent control or stabilization.

Does Pennsylvania preempt local rent control ordinances?

No Pennsylvania statute expressly addresses local rent control; whether a municipality could regulate rents turns on the general limits of municipal power under state law rather than any express rent-regulation ban.

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

Rent cannot be changed during a fixed term unless the lease provides for it. An increase takes effect at renewal, or through termination and re-offer on the 250.501 timeline.

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

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Pennsylvania has no statute requiring any specific notice before a rent increase; the practical floor for a month-to-month tenancy is the notice-to-quit rule — 15 days for tenancies of one year or less or of indeterminate duration, 30 days for tenancies over one year (68 P.S. 250.501(b)) — because a tenant who declines the new rent is on notice the tenancy can end on that same timeline.

Cited to 68 P.S. 250.501 (Act Sec. 501) (b), (e) · Verified July 8, 2026

Unusually, Pennsylvania leases may shorten or even waive the statutory notice entirely (250.501(e)), so the lease often controls. Pennsylvania has no statewide rent control and no statute expressly preempting local rent control, but no Pennsylvania locality currently imposes rent control on private housing; Philadelphia layers on procedural protections (good-cause and eviction-diversion rules) rather than rent caps.

Pennsylvania rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent cannot be changed during a fixed term unless the lease provides for it. An increase takes effect at renewal, or through termination and re-offer on the 250.501 timeline. Mobile home parks are a separate regime with their own notice rules (Mobile Home Park Rights Act).
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Not addressed by statute
Local rent regulation	No Pennsylvania statute expressly addresses local rent control; whether a municipality could regulate rents turns on the general limits of municipal power under state law rather than any express rent-regulation ban.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Pennsylvania Rent Increase Notice Laws (verified July 8, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/pennsylvania/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Pennsylvania statute in the citations section below.

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Notes and caveats

The blank notice figure means no rent-increase statute, not zero notice — Pennsylvania has no statute setting notice before a rent increase. The requirement people rely on derives from the notice-to-quit statute instead, so the month-to-month field is left empty rather than filled with a number.
"Not preempted" means only that no preemption statute exists — Pennsylvania has no statute expressly preempting local rent control, which is the narrow sense in which local control is marked not preempted here. The practical reality is that there is no local rent control on private units — but that is a fact about today, not a legal prohibition.
Local ordinances are outside this page's scope — City-level rules — Philadelphia's, for example — are not covered here. Check local law on top of the state baseline.

Common questions: Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Pennsylvania have rent control?: No — Pennsylvania has no statewide rent control or stabilization.
Does Pennsylvania preempt local rent control ordinances?: No Pennsylvania statute expressly addresses local rent control; whether a municipality could regulate rents turns on the general limits of municipal power under state law rather than any express rent-regulation ban.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Pennsylvania?: Rent cannot be changed during a fixed term unless the lease provides for it. An increase takes effect at renewal, or through termination and re-offer on the 250.501 timeline.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Pennsylvania?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

68 P.S. 250.501 (Act Sec. 501) (b), (e) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951 (P.L. 69, No. 20) text on the official PA General Assembly site (legis.state.pa.us HTM full text and section 512 page): Sections 511.1 (68 P.S. 250.511a), 511.2 (250.511b), 511.3 (250.511c), 512 (250.512), 501 (250.501). Absence of rent-increase, late-fee, and entry statutes verified against the full Act text and multiple concurring secondary sources.