Apartment rents in Dallas-Fort Worth jump 17.3% to top $1,400

If you consider a Fort Worth condominium would make an inexpensive spot to wait out the area’s brutal housing current market, assume once more.

In the past 12 months, lease selling prices jumped 17.3% in Dallas-Fort Value, 2nd among the Texas metros only to Austin, the place hire grew 18.6%, in accordance to ApartmentData.com.

The average hire for an apartment in DFW is now $1,455 a month. It is already jumped $70 or 5% given that the beginning of the yr.

“Rent growth for 2022 is forecast to simplicity significantly from 2021 stages but operate stronger than the extensive-time period common,” the report read.

In the Fort Value region, lease is optimum in Grapevine, Roanoke and Keller, exactly where it jumped to $1,679 — an maximize of approximately 7% considering the fact that January.

In the meantime, DFW flats are nevertheless finding rented out swifter than they’re staying designed.

In the very last 12 months, extra than 38,000 rental units in DFW turned occupied — foremost the substantial Texas metros. Just about 28,000 units came on-line given that this time final 12 months, and additional than 19,000 are underneath design.

The apartment occupancy charge in DFW has slipped to 93.2%, from 93.4% in January.

Between Fort Value locations, the Saginaw space experienced the greatest occupancy fee: 95.6%.