December 2, 2025

After years of aggressive rent hikes, a new report from Calculated Risk shows something renters have been waiting for: asking rents have barely changed compared to last year. According to the latest national data, the median asking rent is showing near-zero year-over-year growth, marking one of the calmest rental markets since before the pandemic. After […]

For years, headlines proclaimed the “death of big cities.” From New York to Los Angeles, pandemic-era fears, work-from-home trends, and shifting lifestyle preferences drove many Americans toward suburbs and smaller metros. But new data from the U.S. Census Bureau tells a very different story: America’s largest cities are growing again and at a surprisingly fast