Rent Increase Limits Across Canada: 2026 and 2027

The 2027 numbers are out in most of the country, which makes this a good moment to see the whole picture at once. Rent control in Canada is not one rule, it is thirteen. Two provinces set no percentage limit at all. One sets a different figure for every building. And the notice you owe a tenant ranges from three months to six.

Everything below is taken from the responsible provincial authority, not from secondary sources. Figures were checked on 4 November 2026.

The short version

• Lowest published limit for 2027: Prince Edward Island at 2.1% and Ontario at 1.9%.

• Highest: Nova Scotia at 5%.

• No percentage cap at all: Alberta and Saskatchewan.

• No single percentage: Quebec, which calculates per building.

• Longest notice period: Newfoundland and Labrador at six months.

Ontario

The guideline is 2.1% for 2026 and 1.9% for 2027. Ontario caps its own guideline at 2.5%, so it cannot spike even when inflation does.

Rent can rise once every 12 months and the notice is 90 days in the proper Landlord and Tenant Board form. The guideline does not apply to units first occupied for residential purposes after 15 November 2018, which exempts a large share of newer rentals, nor on turnover to a new tenant.

More for Ontario owners: Ontario property management.

British Columbia

The limit is 2.3% for 2026 and 2.2% for 2027. Rent can rise once every 12 months and tenants must get three full months of written notice on Form RTB-7, stating the exact dollar amount and the effective date.

One rule catches people out: you cannot bank an unused increase. If you took 1% when 2% was allowed, that missing 1% is gone, not available to add on next year.

More for BC owners: British Columbia property management.

Alberta

Alberta sets no limit on the amount. There is no rent cap, and the province says so plainly.

What Alberta does control is timing. Rent cannot increase until at least 365 days have passed since the last increase or the start of the tenancy, whichever is later, and it cannot increase at all during a fixed term. Notice is three full tenancy months for a month-to-month tenancy, 12 full tenancy weeks for week-to-week, and 90 days for any other periodic tenancy.

More for Alberta owners: Calgary and Alberta property management.

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan also sets no percentage cap, and it has a wrinkle almost no guide mentions. The rules differ depending on whether the landlord belongs to a prescribed landlord association.

• Landlords who are not members: a 12-month Notice of Rent Increase. The increase cannot begin within the first 18 months of the tenancy, and rent can rise only once every 12 months.

• Members in good standing of the Saskatchewan Landlord Association or the Network of Non-Profit Housing Providers of Saskatchewan: a six-month notice. The increase cannot begin within the first 12 months, and rent can rise once every six months.

For a fixed term, the increase is set in the written agreement or served on the Term Lease Two Month Notice of Intention at least two months before the end date, and the tenant then has 30 days to accept in writing or move out.

More for Saskatchewan owners: Saskatchewan property management.

Quebec

Quebec does not publish one percentage. The Tribunal administratif du logement publishes percentages by cost category and the landlord applies them to the actual costs of that building, so two buildings on one street can justify different increases. The base rent percentage for 2026 is 3.1%.

Notice works on windows rather than deadlines: three to six months before the end of a lease of 12 months or more. The tenant then has one month to respond, and silence counts as acceptance.

More for Quebec owners: Montreal property management, and in French, gestion immobilière à Montréal et Laval.

Nova Scotia

The highest published limit in the country: 5% per year from 1 January 2026, under a temporary cap that runs to 31 December 2027.

Notice is four months for year-to-year and month-to-month leases and eight weeks for week-to-week. Rent cannot rise in the first 12 months of a tenancy. Removing something that was included in the rent, such as a parking space, counts as a rent increase and needs the same four months.

More for Nova Scotia owners: Nova Scotia property management.

Manitoba

The guideline for 2027 is 3.0%, effective 1 January 2027, calculated from the Manitoba Consumer Price Index. Notice is at least three months before the increase takes effect, so a 1 January increase has to be served by 30 September.

A long exemption list sits behind that figure, including units renting for $2,000 or more a month and units in buildings first occupied after March 2005.

More for Manitoba owners: Manitoba property management.

Prince Edward Island

The simplest province in the country: one allowable increase for every rental unit, heated or unheated, including mobile home sites. It is 2% for 2026 and 2.1% for 2027, set by the Director of Residential Tenancy from PEI's own Consumer Price Index.

More for PEI owners: Prince Edward Island property management.

Newfoundland and Labrador

No published percentage cap. What the province sets is timing, and it is the longest lead time in Canada: written notice not less than six months before the effective date for monthly and fixed-term agreements.

Rent cannot rise during a fixed term, more than once in any 12-month period, or during the first 12 months of a week-to-week or month-to-month tenancy.

More for Newfoundland and Labrador owners: Newfoundland and Labrador property management.

Yukon

Yukon is mid-change. Amendments tabled in the Legislative Assembly would remove the rent cap and allow no-cause evictions from 1 December 2026. As of 4 November 2026 they are tabled, not law. Confirm the current position with the Yukon Residential Tenancies Office before serving anything.

More for Yukon owners: Yukon property management.

New Brunswick and Northwest Territories

We have deliberately left figures out for these two. The official New Brunswick tenancy pages have been unreachable across repeated attempts, and the Northwest Territories government site was returning an error on the day this was written. Rather than publish numbers we cannot source, we are leaving them blank and will add them once the official pages are reachable.

Confirm New Brunswick rules with the Residential Tenancies Tribunal through Service New Brunswick, and Northwest Territories rules with the NWT Rental Office.

Service pages: New Brunswick property management and Northwest Territories property management.

What to take from this

If you own in more than one province, the trap is assuming the rules travel with you. An Alberta owner used to raising rent freely will get a nasty surprise in Ontario. An Ontario owner moving into Newfoundland will miss the six-month notice. And an owner anywhere who removes a parking space in Nova Scotia has just served an unlawful rent increase without realising it.

Rules change, and several of these changed this year. Confirm the current figure with the provincial authority before you serve notice.

Related reading: property management services and services for rental owners.

This post is general information for Canadian landlords and is not legal advice.