{"id":77312,"date":"2024-01-08T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/?p=77312"},"modified":"2024-10-03T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:53:06","slug":"redfin-rental-report-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/redfin-rental-report-december-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reprieve for Renters: Costs Drop for Third Straight Month in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Rising supply has led to rising vacancies, motivating landlords to lower asking rents, which fell 1% from a year earlier. Rents dropped in the South and the West, but continued climbing in the Midwest and Northeast.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The median U.S. asking rent fell 0.8% year over year in December to $1,964. That\u2019s the third consecutive decline, following a 2.1% annual drop in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/redfin-rental-report-november-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">November<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014which was the largest since 2020\u2014and a 0.3% dip in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-77313 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/National-Rents.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/National-Rents.png 800w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/National-Rents-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/National-Rents-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">December rents were little changed from the prior month (-0.2%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rental market has lost steam largely due to a jump in supply fueled by a building boom in recent years. That has left many landlords struggling to fill vacancies, motivating some of them to drop asking rents. Some landlords are also offering <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one-time concessions like a free month\u2019s rent or reduced parking costs to attract renters. This means the prices renters are paying in total are likely coming down faster than they appear to be in the data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other reasons rents have cooled include economic uncertainty, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-13\/us-household-formation-late-last-year-seen-slowing-further?sref=fRZXrT1O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slowing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> household formation, and affordability challenges, as rents are still only 4.4% below their record high. Additionally, there are new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-01\/us-economic-slowdown-has-begun-as-consumer-spending-cools?sref=fRZXrT1O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">signs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the economy is slowing; Americans are starting to tighten their belts, which could be contributing to the decline in rents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHigh supply\u2014more so than low demand\u2014is driving rent declines. But if mortgage rates continue to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freddiemac.com\/pmms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">drop<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at a fast clip in 2024, slowing rental demand <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">could <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">become a major driver of rent declines,\u201d said <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Redfin Economics Research Lead <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/author\/chen-zhao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chen Zhao<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThat\u2019s because more Americans would ditch the rental market to become homeowners, leaving landlords with even more vacancies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are more newly built and under-construction apartments in the U.S. than there were a year ago; the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=1b5p0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of completed apartments is near the highest level in more than 30 years, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/UNDCON5MUSA#0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under construction is just shy of its record high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because renters have an increasing number of buildings to choose from, vacancies have climbed. The rental vacancy rate rose to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/RRVRUSQ156N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.6%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the third quarter\u2014the most recent period for which data is available\u2014the highest level since the first quarter of 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-77315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/vacancy-rate-1024x709.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/vacancy-rate-1024x709.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/vacancy-rate-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/vacancy-rate-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/vacancy-rate-1536x1063.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/vacancy-rate.png 1733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rents Rise in the Midwest and Northeast, Fall in the West and South<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The median asking rent in the Midwest rose 3.7% year over year to $1,434. Rents also rose in the Northeast, climbing 1.7% to $2,439. Meanwhile, rents fell 1% year over year to $1,632 in the South, and declined 0.6% to $2,346 in the West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Regional-REnts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Regional-REnts.png 800w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Regional-REnts-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Regional-REnts-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rents are likely holding up best in the Midwest and Northeast because those regions haven\u2019t been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nahb.org\/-\/media\/NAHB\/news-and-economics\/docs\/housing-economics\/starts-and-permits\/housing-starts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">building<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as much as the South and West, meaning some landlords have less incentive to drop prices because they\u2019re not dealing with as many vacancies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With rents falling and vacancies rising, now is a good time to shop around or try to renegotiate your rent if your lease is up\u2014especially if you\u2019re a renter in the South or West,\u201d Zhao said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Methodology<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asking price data includes single-family homes, multi-family units, condos\/co-ops and townhouses from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/rent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rent.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/redfin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Redfin.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Redfin has removed metro-level data from monthly rental reports for the time being as it works to expand its rental analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prices reflect the current costs of new leases during each time period. In other words, the amount shown as the median rent is not the median of what all renters are paying, but the median asking price of apartments that were available for new renters during the report month.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising supply has led to rising vacancies, motivating landlords to lower asking rents, which fell 1% from a year earlier. Rents dropped in the South and the West, but continued climbing in the Midwest and Northeast. The median U.S. asking rent fell 0.8% year over year in December to $1,964. 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