{"id":218332,"date":"2026-03-24T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:01:07","slug":"austin-rent-prices-drop-over-7-since-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218332\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin rent prices drop over 7% since last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Good news for renters in Austin! Rent prices are dropping across the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Data released by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Realtor.com<\/a> revealed monthly costs dropped more than 7% year over year.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2026, the average cost for an apartment of any size sat at about $1,360. That\u2019s $100 less than last year and nearly $300 lower than it was in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>An uptick in new apartments and a decrease in people moving to the city are said to be the reason behind falling prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Good news for renters in Austin! Rent prices are dropping across the capital city. Data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13732,132,134,133,5604,3222,223,13214,27],"class_list":["post-218332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-housing","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-housing","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}