Serving Rent Increase Notice Now? The 2026 9.683% Cap Applies!

There has been confusion where people thought the 2025 cap still applied to notices being served through the end of this year.

• It is too late to serve a notice for an increase using the 2025 cap!
  
  
• Rent increases that go into effect in 2025 are subject to a 10% cap.
  
  
• Any increase served now, effective in 2026, must comply with a 9.683% cap.
  
  
• Rent increases that go into effect in 2026 are subject to a 9.683% cap.
  
  
• Use the right form: RHAwa.org/rent-increase-notices.
  
  
• Each year in June, the WA Department of Commerce will publish the increase cap at commerce.wa.gov/housing-policy/hb1217-landlord-resource-center/.
  
  
• The rent increase cap for manufactured housing communities or mobile home parks, subject to MHLTA law, is fixed at 5%.
  
  
•  Each year in June, the WA Department of Commerce will publish the increase cap at commerce.wa.gov/housing-policy/hb1217-landlord-resource-center/.