Boston Rental
Market Data
Real rent numbers from verified, licensed real estate agents — not estimates, not national averages. Published every Tuesday, free for anyone to use.
Boston rent doesn't make sense until you see the actual numbers. Every Tuesday we publish asking prices from licensed agents' active listings — Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, and the surrounding cities. Not national estimates.
Allston, Jamaica Plain, South End — the price gap between them is bigger than most people expect. Every Tuesday we publish a neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown with sample sizes, so you can see exactly how much data is behind each number.
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Boston Rent IndexWhat does a 1-bedroom go for in Allston this week? A studio in Fenway? Median asking rents for every major Boston neighborhood, plus building-type and triple-decker breakdowns.
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Sept 1 CountdownMost Boston leases start September 1. Nowhere else in the country works this way. We track how many Sept 1 units are listed right now and what they're asking.
We publish weekly rental market data sourced directly from our production database — active listings from verified, licensed agents across Greater Boston. All methodology is public.
Covering Boston rent trends? Ask us — we can often pull specific data for your story.
Joel Mundele, CEO — [email protected]-
Boston GlobeJune 11, 2023
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Boston.comJune 12, 2023
How we collect this data +
Source: All data is pulled from Spot Easy's live listings database — active rental listings posted by verified, licensed real estate agents. MLS (MlsPin) listings are included.
Geography: Greater Boston — Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Newton, Everett, Quincy, Watertown, and Malden.
Active listings only: is_on_market = true, not a draft, not admin-removed, rent between $500 and $20,000.
Deduplication: One listing per unique address + unit + bedroom count, keeping the most recently updated record.
Bedroom buckets: Studio / 1 BR / 2 BR / 3 BR / 4+ BR.
Minimum sample size: Cells with fewer than 20 listings are suppressed and shown as —.
Metrics: Median asking rent, 25th and 75th percentile, week-over-week and year-over-year change.
- Week-over-week: same neighborhood × bedroom cell from the prior Tuesday's snapshot.
- Year-over-year: same cell from 52 weeks prior.
Updated every Tuesday morning. Questions? [email protected]