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September 15, 2021

The pandemic had an impact on rent prices in major cities and neighborhoods across the U.S. To quantify the impact, we’re focusing attention on some of the major cities and neighborhoods in the U.S. We will be presenting our findings in a series of year-over-year neighborhood snapshots.

The subject of today’s snapshot is for Nashville, Tennessee. Based on our analysis, Nashville’s year-over-year average rents increased across all bedroom types.

Our standard neighborhood analysis uses a 12-month “LookBack” to establish an average baseline rent. The results from the 12-month LookBack analysis are presented in the tables below for Nashville 1-2 bedroom rents from September 1, 2020 – September 1, 2021:

 


As the table shows, 1BR units increased by 5% from last year or $83 more, and 2BR units increased by 4% or $115 more. As demonstrated by the table, year-over-year performance for all bedroom types increased.

 

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