Each time an apartment is voluntarily vacated or becomes vacant through a court-ordered eviction, the landlord sets the new rent, and that becomes the legal base rent. Where the Office finds the former tenant was harassed out, it may return the unit to control and order the rent reduced.
The landlord must notify the Office after each change of tenancy, register the new rent and state why the prior tenant left. A turnover reset that was never registered is not a reset the record will support.
- Vacancy decontrol
- Yes — rent resets on vacancy
Sources
- Atlantic City Code §41-12 — Vacancy decontrol
- NJ DCA — 2026 Rent Control Survey — New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, 2026 Rent Control Survey (spreadsheet, linked from the DCA Landlord-Tenant Information page; last revised 20 May 2026). The department's own caveat: the survey is only as current as the published codes, and the stated percentage may differ from the increase actually permitted.