Sayreville rent control: maximum rent increase (2026)
Middlesex County — Chapter XII, Buildings and Housing, § 12-6, Rent Control. Full ordinance text ↗
Summary
- Cap formula
- The increase equals the change between the average CPI of the preceding year and the average CPI of the year before that, subject to a maximum of 5% and a minimum of 2%, per the NJ DCA 2026 Rent Control Survey (ordinance text not yet verified).
- Frequency
- once per 12 months
- Notice required
- Not on file — check the ordinance
- Who's covered
- Buildings with 3 or more units
- Exemptions
- owner-occupied housing with 2 units or less where the owner-occupant has 50%+ interest in title
- motels, licensed rooming houses, and similar buildings
- public housing
- buildings owned or operated for living purposes by higher-education institutions
- new construction (30 yrs from certificate of occupancy, N.J.S.A. 2A:42-84.2)
- Vacancy decontrol
- Vacancy Decontrol (per NJ DCA survey; ordinance text not yet verified).
- Status
- active
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-09-23
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Official summary
We haven't yet verified this cap against the ordinance text itself. The state's summary of Sayreville's ordinance reads:
Average CPI of preceding year over average CPI of year prior to that. Maximum of 5% and minimum of 2%.NJ Department of Community Affairs, 2026 Rent Control Survey — nj.gov
Ordinance: Chapter XII, Buildings and Housing, § 12-6, Rent Control — https://library.municode.com/nj/sayreville_borough/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CHXIIBUHO_12-6RECO
State survey entry
- Units covered
- 3+
- Exceptions
- Exception(s) - Owner-occupied housing with 2 units or less where owner-occupant has 50%+ interest in title, motels, licensed rooming houses, similar type buildings, public housing, buildings owned or operated for living purposes by higher educational institutions,
Vacancy Decontrol.
Source: NJ Department of Community Affairs, 2026 Rent Control Survey — nj.gov
Open questions
- Ordinance text not yet verified against the municipal code. Municode's JavaScript-rendered viewer could not be retrieved as text directly or via an r.jina.ai proxy; a follow-up web search located only chapter index pages, not the operative §12-6 text, within the fetch budget.
Rent board
Rent Leveling Board · (732) 390-7000 · https://www.sayreville.com/cn/webpage.cfm?TID=87&TPID=8836
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