How much do you need to earn to afford rent in New York?
We ran the standard affordability rule against nine New York neighborhoods. The cheapest one requires nearly double what…
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Carlsbad and Encinitas both cost more to rent than San Diego itself
North County's beach towns have quietly passed San Diego on rent. The inland cities a short drive away are still the che…
How does a Bay Area couple earning $300,000 get to stay in $1,800-a-month affordable housing?
At one East San Jose complex, roughly a quarter of households now earn above the income caps. The subsidy attaches to th…
Johns Creek and Alpharetta anchor Atlanta's Indian community, and rent just jumped 14% in one
Atlanta's Indian community centers on the northern Fulton suburbs. One of them just posted the steepest rent jump in the…
Nearly a third of Frisco renters moved within two years, these are the cities where renters move most often
How often renters move is a hidden measure of a market. High churn means people can leave, low churn usually means they …
Serial squatter sentenced to 20 years after decades of evictions across Texas and Colorado
The woman Texas prosecutors called a serial squatter got 20 years. She also passed the same tenant screening that reject…
How to get your full Security Deposit back
Your deposit is your money, held in trust. Here is how to document the unit, avoid deductions, and get every dollar back…
Does rent control actually work?
Rent freezes are usually argued in theory. Three cities have now run the experiment against a neighbor that did not, and…
In New York, crossing into a pricier ZIP code costs $2,396 a month. In Atlanta it costs $695.
Every metro has cheap and expensive corners, but the distance between them varies enormously. In New York the gap is $2,…
Portland, Maine capped rent increases at 2.6%. Market rent still rose 10.9% this year.
Portland, Maine just set its 2027 rent control cap. The cap works on sitting tenants and almost nothing else, which is w…
Colorado now makes landlords advertise the real price. Eighteen other states are trying.
The fight over rental junk fees has moved from cities to statehouses. Colorado's new all-in pricing rule is the most agg…
Gwinnett County approves $8.9 million plan with rental and down payment assistance
Gwinnett commissioners approved a HUD-funded plan covering rent help, down payments and new housing. Here is what is in …
When a big employer comes to your town, rent usually jumps 25% in two years
Austin, Nashville, Arlington and Sunnyvale all absorbed a wave of corporate hiring. Our data shows the same shape each t…
Manhattan’s luxury rents are exploding, with $100,000 a month becoming almost normal
Manhattan's top 10% of rentals rose 35% in a year while $100,000-a-month apartments went from rare to routine. Here is w…
Only two US cities over 60,000 people have a median rent under $1,200
A $1,200 budget used to buy a decent apartment almost anywhere. We checked every city in our data, and the answer depend…
US rents are rising faster again as the apartment building boom fades
Rent growth is picking up again as the apartment building boom fades. Our city data confirms the split: the markets that…
Austin rent peaked four years ago and still hasn't recovered
Most rent coverage tracks what happened last month. A longer view shows seven big cities where rent peaked years ago and…
Carrollton, Texas is one of the biggest and best Korean communities in the United States
The two Dallas suburbs with the largest Korean communities are also two of the most affordable. Here is what the Census …
Sag Harbor’s reported rent is $53,556 a month. Here’s why that number is misleading
Some of the numbers on our own site should not be read the way you would read a big-city figure. Small towns produce uns…
Frisco is now 18% Indian American, and Irving is the affordable way into the community
DFW's Indian community is one of the largest in the country, and it concentrates in a handful of suburbs. The rent diffe…
A Kentucky landlord must sell his rentals over sex-for-rent claims
A landlord accused of offering rent forgiveness in exchange for sex has agreed to sell his properties and leave the busi…
Nantucket will pay landlords $18,000 to keep renting to locals and freeze the rent
Nantucket is trying something unusual: paying landlords who already rent year-round to keep doing it, with a rent cap at…
National Rent Report: U.S. Rents Rose 0.1% in July 2026
The typical US rent rose about 0.1% (roughly $1) from June to July 2026 and is +3.5% year over year. San Francisco led w…
Renting a room can save renters 40% to 54%, but insurance still treats it like an edge case
Rent-by-the-room is the cheapest way into an expensive city, and our data shows why. The insurance market hasn't kept up…
You may be owed money from the $360 million RealPage rent settlement. Here is how to check.
A $359.9 million settlement covers renters whose buildings used RealPage pricing software over a seven-year window. Chec…
Zillow settles FTC case over deal that pushed Redfin out of rental listings
The FTC settled with Zillow over a $100 million deal that ended competition in apartment listings. Here's what it actual…
Driving farther out no longer makes rent cheaper, suburbs are getting expensive
The old advice was to drive until you qualify. We ran the numbers on 400 ZIP codes across six metros, and in most of the…
The most and least predictable rental markets in America
Some rental markets are steady enough to plan around and others whipsaw. Eleven years of our data shows Tampa swinging 4…
She wanted to leave an expensive city. Then she found the “cheap” ones aren’t cheap anymore
A woman who left Seattle for Michigan says she was shocked that cheap places aren't cheap. Our data says she's right, an…
Understanding your Lease: The Terms to check before you sign
A lease is a binding contract, and the fine print is where renters lose money. Here are the specific clauses to read clo…
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