Rental information site Zumper recently released their National Rent Report for September which shows that the median one-bedroom rent price decreased in all but one of the top ten U.S. rental markets. For the first time this year to date, the national median price of both one and two bedroom units decreased. One bedrooms dropped -0.8% to a national median price of $1,146, while the two bedrooms dropped -1.0% to a median price of $1,358. Zumper’s National Rent Report analyzes rental data from over 1 million active listings across the U.S. to calculate median asking rents for the top 100 metro areas by population.
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