{"id":87058,"date":"2019-09-15T02:30:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/?p=87058"},"modified":"2019-09-20T08:35:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:35:40","slug":"new-jersey-rent-report-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/local-rent-reports\/new-jersey-rent-report-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Rent Report &#8211; August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>The national average rent reached $1,472 in August, up by 3.3% ($47) year-over-year, and 0.1% ($2) month-over-month, according to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Yardi Matrix<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>East Brunswick, NJ renters saw the highest monthly rent increase in August, with the average price reaching $1,604 per month.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Hoboken apartments are the most expensive among the state&#8217;s largest cities, while apartments in Lindenwold have the cheapest rents.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The national average rent ends the peak season at $1,472<\/h3>\n<p>Continued interest in rental apartments and slowing construction keeps the national average rent on a strong upward trend, with a yearly increase of 3.3% ($47), having reached $1,472 in August, according to the latest survey from Yardi Matrix. With the peak rental season coming to an end, rent prices dwindled in the past month, displaying the slowest rise since February, 0.1% ($2). Rates rose slower than they did in August last year, exhibiting a shy monthly uptick commonly seen during the sluggish Autumn-Winter season.<\/p>\n<h3>Renting in New Jersey in August 2019<\/h3>\n<p>The average rent in New Jersey cities is <strong> higher than the national average rent<\/strong>. The fastest growing rents in August were in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/east-brunswick-nj\/\">East Brunswick<\/a>, where rental apartment\u00a0prices increased by 1.6% month over month, or $26. <strong>West Orange<\/strong> apartments\u00a0saw the second highest monthly increase, jumping by 1.3% and making them $23 more expensive than last month. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/englewood-nj\/\">Englewood<\/a>, prices decreased by 1.2% ($28) compared to July.<\/p>\n<p><script id=\"infogram_0_fbf7adbe-4b8f-4133-9b9f-11cdf9b7e0c4\" title=\"New Jersey - RentReport August\" src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed.js?nmH\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/hoboken-nj\/\">Hoboken<\/a> apartments\u00a0are the area&#8217;s most expensive for renters, with an average price of $3,539, followed by apartments in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/edgewater-nj\/\">Edgewater<\/a>, where the average monthly rent is $3,227. On the other hand, the cheapest city to rent an apartment of the cities analyzed is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/apartments-for-rent\/lindenwold-nj\/\">Lindenwold<\/a>, with an average apartment rent of $982.<\/p>\n<p>To compare the rental market in New Jersey with other cities in the U.S., you can also check our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/apartment-rent-report\/apartment-rents-lose-steam-july-rent-report\/\">national August rent report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Methodology<\/h3>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/\">RentCafe.com<\/a>\u00a0is a nationwide apartment search website that enables renters to easily find apartments and houses for rent throughout the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The data on average rents included in our reports comes directly from competitively-rented (market-rate) large-scale multifamily properties (50+ units in size), via telephone survey. The data is compiled and reported by our sister company <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/\">Yardi Matrix<\/a><\/em><em>, 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. Fully-affordable properties are not included in the survey and are not reported in rental rate averages. Local rent reports include only cities with a statistically-relevant stock of large-scale multifamily properties of 50+ units.<\/em><\/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 $1,472 in August, up by 3.3% ($47) year-over-year, and 0.1% ($2) month-over-month, according to data from Yardi Matrix. East Brunswick, NJ renters saw the highest monthly rent increase in August, with the average price reaching $1,604 per month.\u00a0 Hoboken apartments are the most expensive among the state&#8217;s largest cities, while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":88003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16366,3660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-rent-reports","category-real-estate-news","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>New Jersey Rent Report - August 2019 - RentCafe rental blog<\/title>\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\/new-jersey-rent-report-august-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Jersey Rent Report - August 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The national average rent reached $1,472 in August, up by 3.3% ($47) year-over-year, and 0.1% ($2) month-over-month, according to data from Yardi Matrix. 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