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May 2020 Virginia Beach Rent Report
Welcome to the May 2020 Virginia Beach Rent Report. Virginia Beach rents increased over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Virginia Beach rental market, including comparisons to cities throughout the state and nation.
May 2020 Virginia Beach Rent Report
Welcome to the May 2020 Virginia Beach Rent Report. Virginia Beach rents increased over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Virginia Beach rental market, including comparisons to cities throughout the state and nation.
Virginia Beach rents increased slightly over the past month
Virginia Beach rents have increased 0.2% over the past month, and have increased moderately by 2.4% in comparison to the same time last year. Currently, median rents in Virginia Beach stand at $1,096 for a one-bedroom apartment and $1,319 for a two-bedroom. This is the seventh straight month that the city has seen rent increases after a decline in September of last year. Virginia Beach's year-over-year rent growth leads the state and national averages, which both stand at 1.4%.
Rents rising across cities in Virginia
Throughout the past year, rent increases have been occurring not just in the city of Virginia Beach, but across the entire state. Of the largest 10 cities that we have data for in Virginia, 8 of them have seen prices rise. The state as a whole logged rent growth of 1.4% 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, Arlington is the most expensive of all Virginia's major cities, with a median two-bedroom rent of $2,141; of the 10 largest cities in Virginia that we have data for, Chesapeake and Newport News, where two-bedrooms go for $1,210 and $1,015, are the only two major cities in the state to see rents fall year-over-year (-0.2% and -0.2%).
- Portsmouth, Arlington, and Hampton have all experienced year-over-year growth above the state average (3.0%, 2.8%, and 2.5%, respectively).
Virginia Beach rents more affordable than many large cities nationwide
As rents have increased moderately in Virginia Beach, large cities nationwide have seen rents grow more modestly, or in some cases, even decline. Virginia Beach is still more affordable than most large cities across the country.
- Virginia Beach's median two-bedroom rent of $1,319 is above the national average of $1,196. Nationwide, rents have grown by 1.4% over the past year compared to the 2.4% increase in Virginia Beach.
- While Virginia Beach's rents rose moderately over the past year, some cities nationwide saw decreases, including San Francisco (-0.3%) and Atlanta (-0.2%).
- Renters will find more reasonable prices in Virginia Beach than most large cities. For example, San Francisco has a median 2BR rent of $3,094, which is more than twice the price in Virginia Beach.
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.
Methodology - Recent Updates:
Data from private listing sites, including our own, tends to skew toward luxury apartments, which introduces sample bias when estimates are calculated directly from these listings. To address these limitations, we’ve recently made major updates to our methodology, which we believe have greatly improved the accuracy and reliability of our estimates.
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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.
Read more about our methodology here.
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