Apartment Rents Grow Faster than Incomes via National Real Estate Investor

The average employee isn’t getting a big raise this year—but apartment rents are growing more quickly than ever.

“Across most markets, renters are paying a higher percentage of their incomes in rent,” says Luis Mejia, director of U.S. multifamily research with the portfolio strategy division of research firm CoStar.

That’s not stopping apartment rents from going up. That’s partly because the average income is surprisingly high for households living in rental housing with unrestricted rents. These households can, on average, afford to pay and they don’t have that many attractive alternatives.

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