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April 2020 Estero Rent Report
Welcome to the April 2020 Estero Rent Report. Estero rents remained steady over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Estero rental market, including comparisons to cities throughout the state and nation.
April 2020 Estero Rent Report
Welcome to the April 2020 Estero Rent Report. Estero rents remained steady over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Estero rental market, including comparisons to cities throughout the state and nation.
Estero rents held steady over the past month
Estero rents have remained flat over the past month, however, they are up sharply by 8.1% year-over-year. Currently, median rents in Estero stand at $1,321 for a one-bedroom apartment and $1,640 for a two-bedroom. Estero's year-over-year rent growth leads the state average of 2.2%, as well as the national average of 1.9%.
Rents rising across cities in Florida
Throughout the past year, rent increases have been occurring not just in the city of Estero, but across the entire state. Of the largest 10 cities that we have data for in Florida, 8 of them have seen prices rise. The state as a whole logged rent growth of 2.2% over the past year. Here's a look at how rents compare across some of the largest cities in the state.
- Looking throughout the state, Pembroke Pines is the most expensive of all Florida's major cities, with a median two-bedroom rent of $2,408; of the 10 largest cities in Florida that we have data for, Cape Coral and Pembroke Pines, where two-bedrooms go for $1,128 and $2,408, are the only two major cities in the state to see rents fall year-over-year (-0.6% and -0.3%).
- Port St. Lucie, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale have all experienced year-over-year growth above the state average (8.0%, 3.0%, and 3.0%, respectively).
Many large cities nationwide show more affordable rents compared to Estero
As rents have increased sharply in Estero, a few large cities nationwide have seen rents grow more modestly, or in some cases, even decline. Compared to most large cities across the country, Estero is less affordable for renters.
- Estero's median two-bedroom rent of $1,640 is above the national average of $1,197. Nationwide, rents have grown by 1.9% over the past year compared to the 8.1% rise in Estero.
- While Estero's rents rose sharply over the past year, the city of San Francisco saw a decrease of 0.2%.
- Renters will generally find more expensive prices in Estero than most large cities. For example, Detroit has a median 2BR rent of $899, where Estero is more than one-and-a-half times that price.
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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