Is your rent keeping up?
Three ways to check, strongest first. Pick the one that suits the data you actually have. All three check whether you are even allowed to increase yet.
Comparable benchmark.
The most accurate check you can do yourself. Find three or more properties currently advertised that are genuinely like yours, same suburb, similar size and condition, and benchmark your rent against them.
Enter your current rent and suburb to continue.
Add at least three similar properties.
Their advertised weekly rent, and the address or link so you can find them again.
Three listings added. Three is the minimum.
Add at least three listings with a weekly rent in each.
Benchmark breakdown
Want a proper comparable analysis?
A DIY benchmark uses asking prices. A professional analysis uses what properties actually leased for, and adjusts for condition, parking and recent work. Free, and no obligation.
This uses the asking rents you entered. Advertised rents and achieved rents are not the same thing, and a property that has been listed for six weeks at $750 is not evidence that $750 is the market.
Against the suburb median.
Look up your suburb's median rent on REIWA and compare. Quick, but remember a median is the middle of every property in the suburb, including ones nothing like yours.
What the tenant pays now.
The date the higher rent started being paid, not the date you sent the notice. That distinction is what the 12 month rule runs on.
Reviewed means somebody actually assessed it against the market, whether or not it changed.
Fill in the suburb, your rent, the review timeframe and the REIWA median below.
Find your suburb's median rent.
REIWA is the most reliable source for current Perth medians.
- Open the REIWA market page below.
- Search your suburb.
- Find the median weekly rent for your property type.
- Come back and enter it here.
Rent comparison
Indicative only, and not a formal rental appraisal. A suburb median covers every property in the suburb, so a renovated four bedroom and a tired two bedroom sit in the same number. Under WA law rent can only be increased once every 12 months, with 60 days written notice on Form 10.
CPI calculator.
Applies inflation to your current rent. Useful if your lease specifies CPI, or as a sense check. It is not a market figure, and it can land either side of one.
Not the date notice was sent. The 12 month clock runs from when the higher rent started.
Perth CPI has been running around 4 per cent through the first half of 2026. National CPI was 3.8 per cent in the twelve months to June 2026. Check the current release before you rely on it.
Enter your current rent and a CPI rate.
Increase breakdown
Your timeline
Under the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 (WA) you must give at least 60 days written notice on Form 10, stating the new amount and the day it starts.
Want it handled properly?
Whether the property should be achieving more than CPI, the Form 10 prepared correctly, and the conversation with the tenant managed so you keep them.
Indicative only. CPI is a measure of consumer prices, not of rental market movement, and the two regularly diverge. Under WA law rent can only be increased once every 12 months with 60 days written notice on Form 10.
Important information
This tool gives indicative estimates only. It is not a formal rental appraisal, financial advice or legal advice. Results depend entirely on the figures you enter and on how comparable your chosen properties really are. Nothing you enter is saved or sent unless you choose to submit the review request form.
Under section 30 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 (WA), rent may be increased only by written notice in the approved form, Form 10, specifying the new amount and the day it takes effect. That day must be at least 60 days after the notice is given and at least 12 months after the tenancy commenced or the rent was last increased. Renewing an agreement with the same tenant does not reset the 12 month period. A tenant may apply to the Magistrates Court to dispute a proposed increase. Confirm your position with Consumer Protection WA on 1300 30 40 54 or with a lawyer.
Median rents are suburb wide figures from REIWA and cover every property in the suburb regardless of size or condition. CPI figures are published by the ABS. CPI measures consumer prices, not rental market movement, and the two frequently diverge in both directions. Market figures cited were current at the June 2026 quarter and change regularly.
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