Statute
Texas Property Code, Chapter 91 (Provisions Generally Applicable to Landlords and Tenants), Sec. 91.001, current through the 89th 2nd Called Session (2025), read 2026-09-21. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.91.htm — Sec. 91.001(b) a month-to-month termination notice takes effect on the later of the date named in it or one month after notice is given; (d) rent is owed only to the termination date; (e)(1) the default does not apply where the parties agreed in an instrument signed by both parties on a different period of notice or that no notice is required.
Statute
Texas Property Code, Chapter 92 (Residential Tenancies), Sec. 92.019 and Sec. 92.021, read 2026-09-21. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.92.htm — Sec. 92.019(a) no late fee unless notice of the fee is in a written lease, the fee is reasonable, and any portion of rent has remained unpaid two full days after the original due date; (a-1) reasonable safe harbor of 12 percent of the rental period rent for a structure of four dwelling units or fewer and 10 percent for more than four. Sec. 92.021(a)-(b) a guarantor is liable only for the original lease term unless the original lease specifies in writing that the guaranty extends to a renewal.
Absence
Texas Property Code Chapters 91 and 92, full text searched 2026-09-21 for rent increase, rent cap, renewal, holdover, hold over, notice to vacate, expiration and expire. No provision caps a rent increase and none requires advance notice of a rent increase tied to a fixed-term renewal. References to renewal appear only inside repair-duty, military, application-date, retaliation and guarantor sections. The statement in this article that Texas sets no cap and no renewal-notice period rests on this search of the primary text rather than on inference.
Statute
Texas Local Government Code, Sec. 214.902 (Rent Control), read 2026-09-21. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.214.htm — a municipality may establish rent control by ordinance only if its governing body finds that a housing emergency exists due to a disaster as defined by Government Code Sec. 418.004 and the governor approves the ordinance, and it must continue or discontinue rent control in the same manner the governor continues or discontinues the state of disaster.
Agency
Texas Real Estate Commission, Contracts page, read 2026-09-21. https://www.trec.texas.gov/agency-information/contracts — TREC states that it does not promulgate residential leases other than temporary residential leases used in connection with a sale, and refers the public to an attorney or a real estate trade association. This is the source for the correction in this article that the standard Texas residential lease is not a TREC form.
Trade form
Texas REALTORS, Forms Description and Reference Guide, revision 04/09/26, read 2026-09-21. https://public.texasrealestate.com/600569/TR+Forms+Description+and+Reference+Guide+04.09.26+FINAL.pdf — Residential Lease TXR 2001 (revision date 01/05/26) described for leases of one to four single family dwellings; Extension of Residential Lease TXR 2005 (revision date 01/05/26) described as a short form method to amend, extend, or renew an existing lease, with the guide's own note that renewals may also be accomplished by execution of a new lease agreement, as such may be the preferred practice because a change in the Property Code may not be reflected in older lease agreements.
Trade legal
Texas REALTORS, From the Legal Hotline: Use of Holdover Provision in Leases, Traci Jackson, published 2022-03-30, read 2026-09-21. https://www.texasrealestate.com/news/from-the-legal-hotline-use-of-holdover-provision-in-leases — the holdover provision in the Residential Lease (TXR 2001) is described as a punitive measure rather than a contingency for a tenant who needs extra days, because the tenant is technically in default, and the landlord may be entitled to remedies beyond the fee in the provision.
Not verified
TXR 2001 Paragraph 4A (automatic renewal and notice of termination) was not obtained at primary source and is not quoted in this article. The form is published to Texas REALTORS members rather than on a public page. The only texts located were an unofficial third-party re-post and a trade magazine article inside a JavaScript viewer that could not be rendered, and neither meets our sourcing bar. No default day count for that paragraph is stated anywhere in this article; readers are directed to the number written in their own signed lease.
City
Fort Worth Code of Ordinances Sec. 7-401 (Registration Required) and the City of Fort Worth Rental Property page, read 2026-09-21. https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/ftworth/latest/ftworth_tx/0-0-0-11099 and https://www.fortworthtexas.gov/departments/code-compliance/Rental-Property — annual registration of multifamily dwelling complexes with the director, registration within 30 days of a certificate of occupancy for a new complex, and a registration valid for one year unless ownership changes; the city separately requires registration of one- and two-family rentals with fire safety or public health and sanitation code violations. Nothing in the ordinance addresses lease renewal timing, notice of a rent increase, or a rent ceiling.
MLS
NTREIS Residential Lease closed export, pulled 2026-09-23: 704 closed leases, of which 345 Fort Worth, 23 Saginaw, 10 Haslet, and 393 across the northwest corridor towns named in the article. Our own count from that export: median days on market 26 across all closed leases and 29 in Fort Worth; 41 percent of all leases and 48 percent of Fort Worth leases exceeded 30 days on market; median closed lease price $2,200 overall, $2,165 Fort Worth, $2,175 corridor, $2,400 Saginaw, $2,299 Haslet. Days on market and closed price are as reported by the listing brokers. The export is a snapshot of recent closings rather than a full-year series, and the small town counts are flagged as such in the text.
Forecast
Texas Real Estate Research Center (Texas A&M University), 2026 Texas Real Estate Forecast, read 2026-09-21. https://trerc.tamu.edu/reports/2026-texas-real-estate-forecast/ — statewide single-family rental rates forecast to increase slightly in the year ahead to around $2,200. Cited in this article as a statewide projection and explicitly not as a Tarrant County actual or a completed transaction record.
Estimate
All Panther Properties managed portfolio, our own operating count as of 2026-09-21. About half of the households in place have been in place more than two years and about a third more than three; the average current tenancy is just under three years, and the longest began in February 2014. These are our own counts on the doors we manage, not published statistics. No property, household, rent amount, or lease term is identified.
Not legal advice
Not legal advice. We are REALTORS® and property managers, not attorneys. Statute summaries are plain-language readings of the Texas Property Code and the Texas Local Government Code, and nothing in the article is a recommendation about the terms of any specific lease or renewal; consult a Texas attorney about your own situation.