Lease Property Update
Consumers that weren’t buying homes were renting properties at volumes not seen since November 2017. January single-family home rentals shot up 16.5 percent while rentals of townhomes and condominiums jumped 16.4 percent. The average rent for single-family homes edged up 0.4 percent to $1,755 and the average rent for townhomes and condominiums dipped 0.8 percent to $1,504.