{"id":67819,"date":"2019-04-18T00:57:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T07:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/?p=67819"},"modified":"2019-04-18T01:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T08:13:37","slug":"iowa-rent-report-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/local-rent-reports\/iowa-rent-report-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Rent Report &#8211; March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>The national average rent reached $1,430 in March 2019, a year-over-year increase of 3.2%, according to data from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Yardi Matrix.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Des Moines, IA renters saw the highest annual rent increase in March, reaching $896 per month, up by 20.3% since 2015.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ankeny apartments are the most expensive among the cities analyzed ($1,107), while apartments in\u00a0Urbandale have the cheapest rents ($813).\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The national average rent in March went up by 3.2% year-over-year<\/h3>\n<p>The early beginning of the rental season saw rent prices increase by\u00a0<strong>3.2%\u00a0over the year<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 the lowest annual growth we\u2019ve seen in more than 6 months. Compared to last year\u2019s figure, the March average national rent of\u00a0<strong>$1,430\/month<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>$44<\/strong>\u00a0higher. Month-over-month, however, we witnessed a\u00a0<strong>0.3%<\/strong>\u00a0rise, or <strong>$4<\/strong> more added to average rent prices. This is consistent to last spring&#8217;s\u00a0growth levels, signaling the end of the sluggish\u00a0winter season.<\/p>\n<h3>Renting in Iowa&#8217;s cities in March 2019<\/h3>\n<p>The average rent in Iowa&#8217;s largest cities is generally lower than the national average rent. The fastest growing rents in March were in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/des-moines-ia\/\">Des Moines<\/a>, where rental apartment\u00a0prices increased by 1.6% over the year, $14 more per month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/ankeny-ia\/\">Ankeny apartments<\/a>\u00a0saw the second highest annual increase, jumping by 0.6%, $7 more expensive than the same month last year.\u00a0However, if we look at rent changes in the past 5 years, Ankeny saw the highest rent increase in the entire state \u2014 up by 23% since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/west-des-moines-ia\/\">West Des Moines<\/a> and <strong>Johnston<\/strong>, rents nearly flatlined since last March (0.4% y-o-y increase and 0.4% y-o-y decrease, respectively). Prices dropped most\u00a0in <strong>Urbandale<\/strong>, where average rents decreased by 3.1%. That translates into renters paying $26 less on rent per month compared to a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2019\/04\/Iowa-Infogram.jpg\" alt=\"Rent Trends in Iowa March 2019\" width=\"718\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2019\/04\/Iowa-Infogram.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2019\/04\/Iowa-Infogram.jpg?resize=500,210 500w, https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2019\/04\/Iowa-Infogram.jpg?resize=150,63 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of the cities analyzed, <strong>Ankeny<\/strong> apartments are the state&#8217;s most expensive for renters, with an average rent of $1,107 per month, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/johnston-ia\/\">apartments in Johnston<\/a>, where the average monthly rent is $1,100. On the flipside, the cheapest cities to rent an apartment are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/urbandale-ia\/\">Urbandale<\/a> ($813) and <strong>Des Moines <\/strong>($896).<\/p>\n<h3>Methodology<\/h3>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RentCafe<\/a>\u00a0is a nationwide apartment search website that enables renters to easily find apartments and houses for rent throughout the United States.<\/em><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><em>To prepare the state rent report, we analyzed only cities with a rental stock of at least 2,000 apartments in 50+ unit buildings. To compile the national rent report, RentCafe\u2019s research team analyzed rent data across the 253 largest cities in the U.S., in large-scale apartment buildings with 50 or more units. <\/em><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><em>Rent data was provided by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Yardi Matrix<\/a>, a business development and asset management tool for brokers, sponsors, banks and equity sources underwriting investments in the multifamily, office, industrial and self-storage sectors. Rental rate coverage is for Market Rate properties only. Fully Affordable properties are not included in the Yardi Matrix rental surveys and are not reported in rental rate averages.<\/em><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div class=\"usagerights\">\n<div class=\"fairuse\">\n<h3>Fair use and redistribution<\/h3>\n<p>We encourage you and freely grant you permission to reuse, host, or repost the images in this article. When doing so, we only ask that you kindly attribute the authors by linking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\">RentCafe.com<\/a> or this page, so that your readers can learn more about this project, the research behind it and its methodology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national average rent reached $1,430 in March 2019, a year-over-year increase of 3.2%, according to data from\u00a0Yardi Matrix. Des Moines, IA renters saw the highest annual rent increase in March, reaching $896 per month, up by 20.3% since 2015. Ankeny apartments are the most expensive among the cities analyzed ($1,107), while apartments in\u00a0Urbandale have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":70768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16366,3659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-rent-reports","category-rental-market","gallery-content-unit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Iowa Rent Report - March 2019 - RentCafe rental blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Des Moines renters saw the highest annual rent increase in March, reaching $896 per month, up by 20.3% since 2015, according to the latest Iowa Rent Report.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/local-rent-reports\/iowa-rent-report-march-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iowa Rent Report - 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