The U.S. inflation rate by year is the percentage of change in product and service prices from one year to the next. This is also reported as year-over-year inflation. The Federal Reserve is constantly monitoring this figure and uses monetary policy to achieve its target rate of 2% inflation. The U.S. inflation rate as of December 2021 was 7.0% compared to a year earlier. This is the highest level that we have seen in approximately 30 years.
Needless to say, we are seeing these price increases play out in the real estate market as well. With regard to the single-family home rental market, we have actually seen a 115% increase in prices over the past year. In fact, certain metro areas across the country have even seen higher increases.
4 tiers of single-family rental prices
Overall, we have seen single-family rental prices increase the most in the higher price tiers. The breakdown of the year-over-year changes were as follows:
- Lower-priced (75% or less than the regional median): 9.5%, up from 2.8% in October 2020
- Lower-middle priced (75% to 100% of the regional median): 10.1%, up from 2.8% in October 2020
- Higher-middle priced (100% to 125% of the regional median): 11.3%, up from 3% inOctober 2020
- Higher-priced (125% or more than the regional median): 11.4%, up from 3.5% in October 2020
Summary
Among the major metro areas studied across the country, the Miami, FL market had the highest year-over-year increase in single-family rents in October 2021 at 29.7%. Although this is a significant increase, it is also not too surprising considering the amount of Americans relocating to South Florida. As we have written about many times before, the South Florida real estate market will continue to experience high demand. This is particularly being seen in the single-family home rental market.
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