Culver City, CA — landlord and rental rules

6 rules across 5 topics, including the county and state rules that bind here. Last verified 2026-08-18.

Rent controlVacancy decontrolJust-cause evictionRental registrationOther

Rent control

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Culver City controls qualifying pre-February-1995 multi-unit rents
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Verified on 2026-08-18 — 43 days ago.

Culver City's Rent Control Ordinance limits annual increases for qualifying rental units on parcels with two or more units built on or before 1 February 1995; the city publishes the operative annual maximum.

The local rent ceiling starts with a duplex on a parcel and requires the qualifying construction date.

Confirm the unit and current maximum in the city's Rent Control registry before underwriting an increase.

Unit counts
2+ units
Construction
Built before 1996
AB 1482 caps increases at 5% plus CPI, to a 10% ceiling
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Verified on 2026-08-01 — 60 days ago.

The Tenant Protection Act caps annual rent increases at 5% plus CPI, with a hard ceiling of 10%, on housing built more than 15 years ago.

The 15-year window rolls forward, so a building drifts into coverage with age rather than being fixed by its construction date at purchase.

Annual cap
10%
Construction
Built before 2011

In effect since 2020-01-01.

Sources

  • California Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482) — Cal. Civ. Code §1946.2, §1947.12

Vacancy decontrol

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Costa-Hawkins preserves vacancy decontrol
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Verified on 2026-08-01 — 60 days ago.

Costa-Hawkins exempts post-1995 construction and single-family homes and condominiums from *local* rent control, and preserves the landlord's right to reset rent to market on vacancy.

It does not help at the affordable end, because affordable stock is old stock: the buildings a small investor can actually buy are usually the ones Costa-Hawkins does not exempt.

Vacancy decontrol
Yes — rent resets on vacancy
Construction
Built after 1995

Sources

  • Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act — Cal. Civ. Code §1954.50 et seq.

Just-cause eviction

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Culver City adds local tenant protections
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Verified on 2026-08-18 — 43 days ago.

Culver City's Tenant Protections Ordinance requires an authorised basis and the local process for covered terminations, with coverage broader than the rent-ceiling inventory.

Most residential rentals receive local tenant protections, subject to the city's stated exemptions.

Check the tenancy start, ownership, occupancy, and exemption notices before relying on a no-fault termination.

Exemptions

  • Owner-shared, transient, institutional, affordable, and other ordinance-specific exemptions require property review.
Unit counts
1+ units

Rental registration

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Culver City requires annual rental-unit registration
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Verified on 2026-08-18 — 43 days ago.

Culver City requires landlords to register rental units annually, including duplexes and small multifamily property, whether a unit is fully rent-controlled or tenant-protection-only.

Registration begins with one rental unit and expressly includes duplexes and triplexes.

Verify every unit, tenancy and claimed exemption in the city portal before closing.

Unit counts
1+ units

Other

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Insurance is a live underwriting problem, not a line item
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Verified on 2026-08-01 — 60 days ago.

FAIR Plan policies are up 139% since 2021, habitability claims are now commonly excluded, and earthquake cover is excluded from every standard policy.

Get a bindable quote before removing contingencies. An insurance assumption carried over from another state is the single largest silent error in a California pro forma.

Fair plan increase since2021
139%