Malden Rent Report: October 2024

Welcome to the Apartment List October 2024 Rent Report for Malden, MA. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $2,279, after falling 0.7% last month. Prices remain up 1.8% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Malden rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader Boston metro area and the nation as a whole.

Malden rents are down 0.7% month-over-month and up 1.8% year-over-year

The median rent in Malden fell by 0.7% over the course of September, and has now increased by a total of 1.8% over the past 12 months. Malden’s rent growth over the past year has is similar to the state average (2.5%) and has outpaced the national average (-0.7%).

Malden rent growth in 2024 pacing below last year

Nine months into the year, rents in Malden have risen 5.4%. This is a slower rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to September 2023 rents had increased 6.1%.

Malden rents are 1.8% higher than the metro-wide median

If we expand our view to the wider Boston metro area, the median rent is $2,239 meaning that the median price in Malden ($2,279) is 1.8% greater than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at 2.5%, above the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 12 cities in the Boston metro area that are included in our database. Among them, Cambridge is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $3,012. Lowell is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,742. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Somerville (4.6%) while the slowest is in Watertown Town (0.0%).

You can also use the map below to explore the latest rent trends in the Boston metropolitan area.

Methodology

Apartment List is committed to the accuracy and transparency of our rent estimates. We begin 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, capturing apartment transactions over time 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. For more details, please see the Apartment List Rent Estimate Methodology.

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