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July 2020 Palm Desert Rent Report
Welcome to the July 2020 Palm Desert Rent Report. Palm Desert rents declined over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Palm Desert rental market, including comparisons to cities throughout the metro, state, and nation.
July 2020 Palm Desert Rent Report
Welcome to the July 2020 Palm Desert Rent Report. Palm Desert rents declined over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Palm Desert rental market, including comparisons to cities throughout the metro, state, and nation.
Palm Desert rent trends were flat over the past month
Palm Desert rents have remained steady over the past month, but have decreased moderately by 1.3% year-over-year. Currently, median rents in Palm Desert stand at $962 for a one-bedroom apartment and $1,203 for a two-bedroom. Palm Desert's year-over-year rent growth lags the state average of 0.1%, as well as the national average of 0.2%.
Rents rising across the Riverside Metro
While rent prices have decreased in Palm Desert over the past year, the rest of the metro is seeing the opposite trend. Rents have risen in 9 of the largest 10 cities in the Riverside metro for which we have data. Here's a look at how rents compare across some of the largest cities in the metro.
- Corona has the most expensive rents in the Riverside metro, with a two-bedroom median of $2,276; the city has also seen rent growth of 0.4% over the past month, the fastest in the metro.
- Over the past year, Moreno Valley is the only city in the metro that has seen rents fall, with a decline of 0.7%. Median two-bedrooms there cost $1,725, while one-bedrooms go for $1,379.
- San Bernardino has the least expensive rents in the Riverside metro, with a two-bedroom median of $1,073; rents rose 0.2% over the past month but remained flat year-over-year.
Palm Desert rents more affordable than many large cities nationwide
As rents have fallen moderately in Palm Desert, large cities nationwide have seen prices increase, in some cases substantially. Palm Desert is also more affordable than most large cities across the country.
- Although rents across cities in California have been slightly on the rise, the state's growth as a whole has held steady over the past year. For example, rents have grown by 0.4% in San Diego.
- Palm Desert's median two-bedroom rent of $1,203 is slightly above the national average of $1,192. Nationwide, rents have held steady over the past year.
- While rents in Palm Desert fell moderately over the past year, many cities nationwide saw increases, including Phoenix (+1.9%) and Las Vegas (+0.6%).
- Renters will find more reasonable prices in Palm Desert than most large cities. For example, San Jose has a median 2BR rent of $2,638, which is more than twice the price in Palm Desert.
For more information check out our national report. You can also access our full data for cities and counties across the U.S. at this link.
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Methodology:
Apartment List is committed to making our rent estimates the best and most accurate available. To do this, we start with reliable median rent statistics from the Census Bureau, then extrapolate them forward to the current month using a growth rate calculated from our listing data. In doing so, we use a same-unit analysis similar to Case-Shiller’s approach, comparing only units that are available across both time periods to provide an accurate picture of rent growth in cities across the country.
Our approach corrects for the sample bias inherent in other private sources, producing results that are much closer to statistics published by the Census Bureau and HUD. Our methodology also allows us to construct a picture of rent growth over an extended period of time, with estimates that are updated each month.
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