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Rents May Finally Have Peaked in the US
The gain in asking prices was just 11% in August, a sign the hot rental market is slowing down.
A "For Rent" sign outside an apartment building in the East Village neighborhood of New York.
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US asking rents rose in August by the slowest pace in a year, a sign the hot rental market could finally be cooling, according to real estate brokerage Redfin.
The national median asking rent rose 11% year-over-year to a record high of $2,039. Although the double-digit increase is still large, it’s down significantly from the peak in March when rents saw an annual jump of 19%. The month-over-month growth of 0.4% was the slowest since December 2021 and down from 1.6% a year earlier.