The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in New York City has 12.8% year-over-year for August to $4,500, an all-time high for the second month in a row. Meanwhile, nationwide, that category increased only 1.6% to $1,534, according to Zumper's National Rent Index.

Jersey City, New Jersey, followed New York with a median one-bedroom rent of $3,400 and San Francisco hit a four-year high at $3,160.

Two-bedroom median rent climbed 2.7% across the country to $1,915 in August, according to the index. Both one- and two-bedroom rents climbed 0.2% month-over-month across the country.

Want to continue reading?
Become a Free ALM Digital Reader.

Once you are an ALM Digital Member, you’ll receive:

  • Breaking commercial real estate news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
  • Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
  • Critical coverage of the property casualty insurance and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, PropertyCasualty360 and ThinkAdvisor
NOT FOR REPRINT

© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.