On a tenant vacating, the unit is decontrolled — but the new rental is limited to an increase of 25% over the last rent the vacating tenant paid, the new rent becomes the base rent, and no unit may be decontrolled more than once in any three-year period.
Three conditions decide whether the increase is available at all: the dwelling must be registered under §155-30, the vacancy must be voluntary and free of harassment or duress or else a lawful eviction (a holdover dispossession does not qualify), and the three-year clock must have run. The current chapter controls over the DCA's narrower summary. Separately, Chapter 154 requires most vacant units to be re-rented within 60 days, requires notice after 30 days, and authorizes inspection on seven days' notice; it is an anti-warehousing programme, not a routine certificate at every turnover.
- Vacancy decontrol
- Yes — rent resets on vacancy