{"id":278162,"date":"2026-09-03T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278162\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:29:41","slug":"average-philadelphia-apartment-size-is-shrinking-according-to-new-report-from-rentcafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278162\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Philadelphia apartment size is shrinking, according to new report from RentCafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788442181_871_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 3, 2026 11:25AM<\/p>\n<p>A new report from apartment blog RentCafe ranked Philadelphia 12th out of 100 U.S. cities for the smallest new apartments.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; The average apartment size in Philadelphia appears to be shrinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/market-snapshots\/national-average-apartment-size\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new report from apartment blog &#8220;RentCafe&#8221;<\/a> ranked Philadelphia 12th out of 100 U.S. cities for the smallest new apartments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It also found that units built in the city within the last decade spanned an average of 747 square feet, which is 163 fewer square feet than the national average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RentCafe says that while new three-bedroom apartments actually grew by 93 square feet, studios, one- and two-bedroom units shrank by about 100 square feet compared to the last decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Platform analysts pointed to high demand for single-person housing as a cause.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 3, 2026 11:25AM A new report from apartment blog RentCafe ranked Philadelphia 12th out of 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116450,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-278162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-116450","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}