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  • Boston Rents Over Time

    June 29th, 2015
    housing
    A friend asked about the seasonality of Boston rents, wondering if there was a good time to look. Short answer: sooner is better.

    Both the mean and median rent are rising over time, going up about $100 or 4% per year. There doesn't seem to be much of a pattern for when in the year is cheapest.

    About the data: I have 28 months of listings from Padmapper that originally come from Craigslist. This is for a rectangle that roughly represents what people seem to mean when they say "closer suburbs," reaching about half way out to route 128. You can see this visualized on jefftk.com/apartment_prices. Here I've calculated the mean and median rent from the 2-bedroom listings only. The number of listings does vary widely. I don't know whether it varies primarily because of people listing fewer apartments or something going wrong with Padmapper's scraping pipeline. I've excluded four months with very low samples from the chart above: 9/2013, 11/2013, 1/2014, and 2/2014.

    date median cost mean cost samples
    2013-02-18 $2300 $2482 972
    2013-03-18 $2200 $2428 698
    2013-04-18 $2300 $2450 776
    2013-05-18 $2300 $2442 1194
    2013-06-18 $2300 $2451 1331
    2013-07-18 $2300 $2452 1267
    2013-08-18 $2400 $2521 1117
    2013-09-18 $2100 $2410 163
    2013-10-18 $2400 $2532 931
    2013-11-18 $3050 $2959 37
    2013-12-18 $2150 $2321 1352
    2014-01-18 $2400 $2465 63
    2014-02-18 $2200 $2515 80
    2014-03-18 $2400 $2536 2759
    2014-04-18 $2475 $2595 2505
    2014-05-18 $2400 $2525 2801
    2014-06-18 $2450 $2544 2560
    2014-07-18 $2400 $2491 2939
    2014-08-18 $2400 $2559 3043
    2014-09-18 $2400 $2607 2427
    2014-10-18 $2400 $2583 2142
    2014-11-18 $2400 $2537 1962
    2014-12-18 $2400 $2521 2451
    2015-01-18 $2300 $2492 2622
    2015-02-18 $2350 $2538 2560
    2015-03-18 $2400 $2538 2915
    2015-04-18 $2450 $2595 2801
    2015-05-18 $2500 $2685 711
    2015-06-18 $2500 $2666 1060

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