<p>Nationally, the average asking price of rental units continued its slow but steady upward climb, increasing 0.6% week-over-week (WoW), to $1,995. Inventories dropped nearly 1.5% WoW, which is the largest one-week drop we’ve seen in the last four weeks.</p><p><img src="https://assets1.biggerpoc...

<p>Don’t you wish there was one comprehensive number to help you decide whether or not a particular property is a good investment? This singular number may not exist—but rent-to-price ratio (RtP) can certainly help because it serves as an easy proxy for cash flow. And given the current economic c...

<p><em>A note before we get into this week’s report:</em></p><p>As you may be aware, BPInsights was originally set to launch in late 2020. Then the coronavirus struck. Feeling a need to provide investors with data-backed information, we started releasing market reports in March to shed light on t...

<p>Landlords and rental property owners know that the ongoing pandemic has disrupted the spring selling and renting seasons. Aside from personal experience, there’s also analytical data that helps prove the point: Back in mid-March, search traffic on the rental site RENTCafe.com fell by approxima...

<p>Examining the rental market this week, we see a continuation of several trends that have been established since the coronavirus pandemic began interrupting normal economic activity.</p><p><img src="https://assets2.biggerpockets.com/uploads/uploaded_images/1588109078-image.png"></p><p>On a nati...

<p><strong><em>Note: </em></strong><em>Our rental market updates are analyzed using data we license from a company that aggregates information about active rental listings. In the near future, we will be adding an entirely new dataset to our market updates that will include property prices, forec...

<p>For the third straight week, the national average for active listings inched upward—this week rising 0.5%, from $1,983 to $1,993. As we observed in previous weeks (and as shown by the data below), the national average for active listings rose, likely due to lower-priced rentals finding tenants...

<p>As has been the trend recently, the national asking price remained steady this past week. Inventory inched back up but is still below the five-week moving average.</p> <a href="https://bp-v-newproduction.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/content/insights/3-market-update-4-8-20/national-rental-invent...

<p>Even as the United States becomes the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, its rental market appears fairly stable.</p> <a href="https://bp-v-newproduction.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/content/insights/2-market-update-4-1-20/natl-rental-inventory-q1.png"> <img src="https://bp-v-newproductio...

<p>Welcome to the very first release of BiggerPockets Insights. This is a project we’ve been working on for a few months, and we’re very excited about what we have in store. BPInsights will provide our Pro and Premium members with the best real estate investing data available. This will be delive...

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