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August 2019 Milwaukee Rent Report
Welcome to the August 2019 Milwaukee Rent Report. Milwaukee rents increased over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Milwaukee rental market, including comparisons to similar cities nationwide.
August 2019 Milwaukee Rent Report
Welcome to the August 2019 Milwaukee Rent Report. Milwaukee rents increased over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the Milwaukee rental market, including comparisons to similar cities nationwide.
Milwaukee rents increased moderately over the past month
Milwaukee rents have increased 0.3% over the past month, and are up marginally by 0.9% in comparison to the same time last year. Currently, median rents in Milwaukee stand at $728 for a one-bedroom apartment and $903 for a two-bedroom. This is the sixth straight month that the city has seen rent increases after a decline in January. Milwaukee's year-over-year rent growth lags the state average of 1.1%, as well as the national average of 1.6%.
Milwaukee rents more affordable than many other large cities nationwide
As rents have increased marginally in Milwaukee, a few comparable cities nationwide have also seen rents grow modestly. Milwaukee is still more affordable than most similar cities across the country.
- Milwaukee's median two-bedroom rent of $903 is below the national average of $1,191. Nationwide, rents have grown by 1.6% over the past year compared to the 0.9% rise in Milwaukee.
- While Milwaukee's rents rose marginally over the past year, many cities nationwide also saw increases, including Phoenix (+3.7%), Dallas (+2.1%), and New York (+1.8%).
- Renters will find more reasonable prices in Milwaukee than most comparable cities. For example, San Francisco has a median 2BR rent of $3,126, which is nearly three-and-a-half times the price in Milwaukee.
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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.
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