Явление, по моему, повсеместное в этом году. Сказывается стагнация на рынке недвижимости наверное. Всем нашим знакомым, и нам подняли рент на 10-14%. Пора покупать?
This kind of shift is under way in many cities across the country, including Atlanta, where rents actually fell from 2003 through the first half of last year, as well as Cincinnati, Dallas and Phoenix. The only region of the country that is resisting the trend is the Midwest, where industrial job losses and other factors continue to hold rents down.
According to government data, in both June and July average rents across the country were 3.5 percent higher than a year earlier, the steepest gains in almost four years. And it is feeding into a broader rise in inflation.
The rise in apartment rents is in many ways a consequence of what has happened to home prices. As mortgage rates have begun to creep up and as home prices have soared out of reach of many Americans, many renters who a couple of years ago might have bought a home are staying put. This is tightening the rental market to the point where apartment owners now have more leverage to demand higher monthly payments.
In New York City, where a steady stream of young arrivals, limited space and rent controls limit the supply of available apartments, rents never fell as they did in many other cities. Now they are advancing at a much faster clip.
In the metropolitan area covering New York, Long Island and Northern New Jersey, annual increases in rent surpassed 5 percent in the second half of last year for the first time since 1990, according to government statistics. And brokers and landlords in the city speak of even sharper rises lately.
“There’s been a big change in the last three months,” said Laurie Zucker, vice chairwoman of Manhattan Skyline Management, which manages about 4,000 apartments up and down Manhattan. “We can barely keep up with how fast we need to raise rents.”
For example, a one-bedroom apartment in the Murray Hill area of Manhattan that six months ago went for $2,400 to $2,500 a month can now fetch $3,200 to $3,300, Ms. Zucker said.
Rents, which account, directly and indirectly, for almost 30 percent of the overall Consumer Price Index, are one of the main forces pushing prices up at a faster pace than the Federal Reserve is comfortable with.
) , я живу в NYC больше 10 лет и не перестаю удивляться, что только рынок и не выдерживает. Уникальность места дает возможность просить и получать просимое. Меня лично до сих пор удивляет - до какой степени.
300К это на двоих. А вообще смотрите медиан инкам чтобы понять что к чему. 5K в месяц does not make any sense в то время как вот такую квартирку можно иметь всего за 2800 в месяц (включая все фии и таксы). Гм. не, точно пора брать....
