Law / United States / New Jersey
Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent (FAIR) Act
P.L. 2026, c. 33 (A3497), supplementing the New Jersey Antitrust Act, N.J. Stat. § 56:9-1 et seq.
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In force in 288 days, effective 1 July 2027.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- This law is enacted but does not take effect until July 1, 2027; what follows applies from that date.
- If you are a rental property owner, or operate as a coordinator, do not use an algorithmic device, other than a plain spreadsheet or an unprocessed-data database, to process nonpublic, competitively sensitive rental data (prices, lease terms, occupancy levels) of two or more New Jersey rental property owners in order to set, recommend, or facilitate coordinated pricing, lease terms, or occupancy levels among them.
- Collecting or using such data solely for research, statistical analysis, or testing, without using it to set or recommend prices, remains lawful, as does a free public rent estimate or a real-estate listing database, available on equal terms to subscribers, that does not itself set or recommend prices.
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Makes it unlawful, as a violation of the New Jersey Antitrust Act, for a rental property owner to pay for or use the services of a "coordinator," for a coordinator to facilitate a tacit or express pricing agreement among rental property owners including by performing a "coordinating function," for two or more persons to engage in parallel pricing coordination, or for any person to perform a coordinating function.
A "coordinating function" covers using an algorithmic device, other than a plain spreadsheet or an unprocessed-data database, to collect nonpublic, competitively sensitive rental data (prices, lease terms, occupancy) from two or more rental property owners and use it, including to train an algorithm, to set or recommend rental prices, lease terms, or occupancy levels for those owners.
Excluded are collecting such data solely for research, statistical analysis, or testing without using it to set prices, a publicly available free rent estimate, and a real-estate listing database available on equal terms that does not itself set or recommend prices. The Attorney General must establish a complaint intake channel and may adopt implementing rules. Signed by Governor Sherrill on July 20, 2026.
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Read the law
official Assembly Committee Substitute text (First Reprint), New Jersey Legislature (pub.njleg.gov), for the Act's substantive terms
the signing date is confirmed against the Governor's official press release (nj.gov/governor); the chapter-law PDF for P.L. 2026, c. 33 was not located on the New Jersey Legislature's chapter-law archive as of this review