{"id":32139,"date":"2017-12-26T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-apartment-rents-jump-6-8-percent-compared-to-2016\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T21:49:48","slug":"kent-apartment-rents-jump-6-8-percent-compared-to-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-apartment-rents-jump-6-8-percent-compared-to-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent apartment rents jump 6.8 percent compared to 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apartment rents in Kent jumped 6.8 percent in 2017 compared to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A median two-bedroom unit in Kent rents for $1,740 per month, up 6.8 percent from 2016, according to Apartment List, a San Francisco-based company. In comparison, the national median two-bedroom rent is $1,160, up 2.7 percent from last year. The median one-bedroom rate in Kent is $1,400, which means about half the rents are higher than that price and half are lower.<\/p>\n<p>With the U.S. renter population growing quickly &#8211; now about 37 percent of U.S. households &#8211; Apartment List aims to provide data-backed research to keep renters informed.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartmentlist.com\/rentonomics\/2017-rental-market-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\">apartmentlist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-bedroom unit median rate at $1,740 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":32140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32139"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}