Renting & Leasing
Rental market trends, tenant rights, lease negotiations, rent increases, and the decision between renting and buying.
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Virginia renters can now pay by check or money order, and landlords can’t charge a fee to take rent
Virginia renters who rely on checks or money orders to pay rent now have explicit legal backing requiring landlords to accept those payment methods. The...
Austin renters now pay about 5.1% less than they did a year ago
A one-bedroom apartment in Austin that listed for $1,400 a month last spring might now be advertised closer to $1,330. Across the metro, asking rents...
San Francisco now leads the country in rent growth at 6.3% over the past year
Renters across San Francisco are absorbing the steepest annual rent increases of any major U.S. metro, with prices climbing 6.3 percent year over year as...
The median U.S. asking rent rose to $1,379 in May, its fourth straight monthly gain
Renters searching for a new apartment in May faced a median asking price of $1,379, the fourth consecutive month that figure has climbed. The streak...
San Francisco rents are rising faster than any major metro at 6.3% a year, while Austin’s keep falling, down 5.1%
Renters in San Francisco now face the fastest-rising apartment costs of any large U.S. metro, with asking rents up 6.3 percent year over year. Austin,...
Asking rents rose for a fourth straight month as summer moving season began
Renters searching for apartments this summer face rising sticker prices for the fourth consecutive month. Asking rents across U.S. multifamily properties climbed again in May...
The FTC is mailing refund checks to 444,131 renters who paid Invitation Homes hidden fees, and each check expires 90 days after it arrives
More than 444,131 renters who paid hidden charges to the nation’s largest single-family rental company are now receiving refund checks from the Federal Trade Commission....
The typical U.S. apartment now rents for $1,379, down 1.5% in a year
Renters across the United States are paying slightly less than they did a year ago, with the national median apartment rent sitting at $1,379 per...
Rents are falling fastest across the Sun Belt, down nearly 6% in Austin — while Midwest and Northeast tenants are paying about 5% more than a year ago
A one-bedroom apartment in Austin, Texas, rented for an estimated median of about $1,100 per month as of the Apartment List May 2026 report, according...
Buying the typical home now costs over $1,000 more a month than renting it — the widest gap on record, and it’s keeping a generation stuck as tenants
Run the numbers on a median-priced home in Phoenix today and the result is blunt: buying costs roughly $1,200 more per month than renewing a...
“One of the most renter-friendly periods in a decade” — here’s where rents are falling fastest and how to negotiate a better lease
Across the Sun Belt (consisting of states across the southern US), landlords are cutting asking rents, throwing in free months, and waiving fees that were...
Rents just fell behind inflation for the first time — here’s where renters have the most leverage in 2026
Across a band of Sun Belt cities (i.e., cities in southern states such as Texas or Florida) that spent the past few years building apartments...
Renting vs buying in 2026 with mortgage rates near 6%: the full cost breakdown
With mortgage rates hovering near 6 percent, many Americans are rethinking one of the biggest financial decisions of their lives: whether to rent or buy....
Florida seniors face rent hikes over 100% with no state rent control protections
For many retirees, a move to Florida promises sunshine, lower taxes, and an affordable place to settle down. But for residents of one 55-plus community,...