{"id":114826,"date":"2021-06-15T06:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/?p=114826"},"modified":"2022-09-01T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:43:00","slug":"apartment-size-increase-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/apartment-size-increase-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Apartments to Get \u201cOne Home Office Larger\u201d as More Renters Work from Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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After a decade of shrinking apartments, renters are set to receive the extra space they need: 36% of cities are currently building larger units than before, with most of them (51%) upsizing two-bedroom apartments.<\/strong><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Full- or part-time work-from-home is here to stay for the foreseeable future, compelling many people to make room in their homes for a more permanent workspace. The need for more space<\/a> is particularly crucial in apartments, where there isn\u2019t typically much space to spare to begin with. Fortunately, apartment developers are noticing this rising need and their response is already reflected in projects that are under construction.<\/p>\r\n

In fact, out of the 92 cities in which we analyzed apartment floorplans in buildings under construction, 36% are already trending toward larger apartments<\/strong> compared to what was built in the past 5 years, Yardi Matrix data reveals. Specifically, these larger apartments increased by nearly 50 square feet, on average \u2014 a generous space for an apartment, especially nowadays when more people are working from home. On a more granular level, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments are expanding in size in almost half of the cities analyzed, with the latter adding a whopping 105 square feet to its average size. One- and two-bedroom apartments are also registering increases of 28 square feet and 39 square feet, respectively.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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