{"id":7691,"date":"2018-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/renting-population-drops-as-prices-bump-up\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:00:00","slug":"renting-population-drops-as-prices-bump-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/renting-population-drops-as-prices-bump-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Renting Population Drops as Prices Bump Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"36.196670135276\">\n<!--\n\n<pre>-->  <\/p>\n<div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"28.15296566077\"><!--paging_filter--><\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 2004, the renter population decreased, according to the Annual Rent Report from ABODO, an apartment <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/nigeria-property-center\/\">listing<\/a> service. Still, renters continue to outpace owners, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 43 million renters in the U.S., which is more than a third of U.S. households, according to a report from Harvard University\u2019s Joint Center for <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">Housing<\/a> Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the decrease in renters in 2017, landlords continue to raise rent prices. The national median rent for a one-bedroom rose 2.4 percent in 2017 to $1,040. Rents for two-bedroom apartments rose 3 percent from January to December 2017 to $1,252.<\/p>\n<p>Rent prices varied by region. Rents rose in 28 states last year as well as the District of Columbia; rents dropped in 21 states. South Dakota saw rental costs stay the same in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realtormag.realtor.org\/sites\/realtormag.realtor.org\/files\/rmo_files\/images\/2018_jan\/2017%20Rent%20Trends%20By%20State.png\" style=\"width: 620px; height: 582px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: \u201cReport: America\u2019s 2017 Rental Market in Review: Despite Renter Population Decrease, Prices Jumped 2.4%,\u201d ABODO (Jan. 3, 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DailyRealEstateNews\/~3\/lq5ozlU8pAw\/renting-population-drops-prices-bump-up\"> Realtors <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2004, the renter population decreased, according to the Annual Rent Report &hellip; <a title=\"Renting Population Drops as Prices Bump Up\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/renting-population-drops-as-prices-bump-up\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Renting Population Drops as Prices Bump Up<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[518,617,1007,41,818,479,678,645],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-america","tag-house","tag-owners","tag-property","tag-real","tag-realtor","tag-rental","tag-renting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2017%20Rent%20Trends%20By%20State.png?fit=1000%2C938&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}