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Check earliest increase dates and notice receipt deadlines using your state, agreement and rent history.
Earliest eligible increase
1 January 2027Twelve-month limits apply to ordinary fixed and periodic agreements. Qualifying pre-13 December 2024 fixed terms shorter than two years retain their written increases until the term ends.
Receipt basis: confirmed personal delivery.
Notice rule: 60 calendar days. Applicable frequency: 12 months, using the jurisdiction’s counting rule.
Latest notice receipt deadline
2 November 2026For the planned increase on 1 January 2027The planned date meets the entered timing conditions.
Example: a periodic NSW tenancy with earlier increases, continuous since 1 January 2025, notice by confirmed personal delivery and a planned increase on 1 January 2027.
Rates as of
The earliest eligible increase must satisfy the applicable rent-history interval, notice period and agreement restrictions, using the notice date you entered. The latest receipt deadline works backwards from your chosen increase date.
Use the continuous tenancy commencement and actual increase history, choosing first increase if there has been none. In Queensland the history belongs to the property, so a previous tenant or owner can matter. Renewal dates do not automatically restart continuous rent history.
Take an ordinary New South Wales periodic tenancy that began on 1 January 2025, with rent last increased on 1 January 2026, a valid notice received on 14 October 2026 and a planned increase on 1 January 2027. The twelve-month anniversary is 1 January 2027; sixty days after receipt is 13 December 2026.
The later limit gives an estimated earliest increase of 1 January 2027. The latest receipt deadline for that chosen date is 2 November 2026, which the entered notice meets. In Victoria, ninety days from the same receipt date ends on 12 January 2027, so the 1 January target would require an earlier notice.
The notice date means effective lawful receipt of a valid document. The service methods add no guessed delivery buffer, so the date you enter must already allow for the actual method; the receipt deadline is not a mailing deadline. A document still needs the required form, content and signature.
This snapshot supports notices received from 25 November 2025 to 31 October 2028 and increase dates through 31 December 2028; earlier tenancy and agreement history is still used for first-increase and legacy checks. Future calculations assume the law checked on 14 October 2026 stays unchanged.
Calendar-month periods use complete calendar months, including shorter months and leap years. Queensland has its own clear-period counting and final-business-day adjustment; its state-wide holidays through 2028 are included, with Christmas Eve because the final notice day must run to midnight, but local show holidays for the property area must be entered. A holiday does not move the annual rent-history anniversary.
The ordinary notice is sixty days in New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia, ninety days in Victoria, two calendar months in Queensland, eight weeks in the ACT and thirty days in the Northern Territory. Tasmania’s legislation requires more than sixty days, so the calculation uses sixty-one. Most ordinary frequency limits are twelve months; the Northern Territory uses six months.
Victoria retains qualifying pre-19 June 2019 rules. Western Australian fixed agreements signed before 29 July 2024 retain six-month reviews until the term ends. ACT fixed agreements made before 10 December 2024 need an increase amount or calculation method in the agreement.
A required increase clause cannot be replaced by giving notice. Tasmania permits the ordinary increase procedure where the written agreement allows it or there is none, and a short renewal does not restart continuous tenancy history. The Northern Territory requires an increase right and amount or method for ordinary reviews; an automatic change at a stated interval and on a stated basis follows the agreement procedure under section 41(5).
A specified written increase date is kept exact: an invalid date is not moved. South Australian agreed amount-and-date clauses and qualifying NSW legacy clauses can remove the separate notice requirement, and Queensland and South Australia distinguish a mutually agreed new term or extension from a unilateral notice.
This tool checks timing for ordinary private residential tenancies. It does not calculate a permitted rent amount, generate a notice, assess an excessive-rent challenge or certify the wording of a clause. Confirm that the clause, and any other contractual restriction, permits your proposed increase, including its amount, method and review dates.
Social housing, rooming accommodation, residential parks, exempt lessors, court or tribunal orders, agreed notice waivers and disputed service have their own rules: ask the tenancy authority or a qualified local adviser when one applies.
Ordinary fixed and periodic agreements use a twelve-month limit, including the first year. A qualifying fixed agreement made before 13 December 2024 for less than two years can retain its specified written increases until it ends. The calculator asks for the agreement dates to distinguish those cases.
No. Notices in this snapshot use ninety days from 25 November 2025. Some agreements dating from before 19 June 2019 retain a six-month frequency rule, while modern agreements and fixed terms of five years or more use twelve months.
No. The RTA excludes the service day and requires the whole calendar-month period to finish. A final notice day on a weekend or public holiday moves to the next business day; the increase can start the following day. Local show holidays must be entered as well as the included state-wide dates.
It depends on the jurisdiction, agreement date and written provision. The calculator checks these facts. If a required clause is absent, it can use a confirmed later periodic continuation where permitted, or show that an increase is not permitted under the entered agreement.
No. It is the last date for valid legal receipt. Use delivery evidence and the applicable service rules, including consent for electronic service. Posting delays are not guessed. A valid agreed schedule or renewal can instead have no separate statutory increase-notice requirement.
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