Rentometer Blog

Data-driven decisions start with data you can trust. That’s why real estate professionals have trusted Rentometer for over 15 years. Rentometer’s extensive rental pricing database provides instant residential rental rates, comparables, and market trend data for the entire U.S.

Rentometer is now offering a Team Plan so you can give your entire team turnkey access to our services under a single plan. Here’s all you need to know.

Street View allows you to get a better sense of the surrounding area of your potential investment property. Whether you’re in a state or searching across the country, it's a great feature to see property types and what kind of area you are investing in.

Custom Branding is a valuable feature included with Rentometer PRO that puts your business logo and contact information at the top of your PRO rent reports.

The Rent Comparables Summary section includes important details on the rent comparables used in your rental property analysis.

The Rentometer Property Report is a compilation of publicly available data presented in an easy to read format. Each rent comp listed in the Rentometer PRO Report includes a full Property Report.

Quickly and easily evaluate current market rents with Rentometer’s QuickView Reports.

Are you considering using an API for your rental property analyses? Mike Lapsley, President of Rentometer, discusses and provides a demonstration of Rentometer’s API feature.

When real estate professionals need to know the going market rent for a property - they use Rentometer. Here’s how it works.

Download the comps used in your PRO rent report for further analysis and reference offline.

Our new Min/Max Filters for Rental Price and Square Footage can help improve your analyses’ precision and accuracy by allowing you to set minimum, maximum, or range value filters in your searches, narrowing down comp results to the units MOST similar to your search criteria.

Rentometer’s recent data upgrade provides more neighborhoods with precise boundaries for accurate neighborhood rent statistics.

Mike Lapsley, President of Rentometer, discusses and provides a demonstration of Rentometer’s newest API feature.

Use the auto radius filter to capture the most rent data for your analysis Rentometer offers a number of search filters to make sure your rent comp analysis is as accurate as possible.

The map and sample listings show you the subject property you searched but also the other properties used in the data set. You can see on the map where the properties are located.

The stats table provides more information about the data sample. The rent distribution shows the rent based on those data samples. Depending on the sample you’ll see where other properties fall into which rent range based on this data set.

The average bedroom type graph shows you the year-over-year rents across all bedroom types so you can compare all types in one report. This shows you a quick snapshot of how rents have changed over the last year.

All Rentometer Pro Reports include summary statistics and percentiles to help you determine what the rent should be for your rental property. 

Rentometer provides a variety of statistics that can help you evaluate your rental market and, in turn, help you set the rent for your rental unit. By understanding the rental rates and percentiles, you can also quickly evaluate a possible rental purchase or how much you can and should spend on renovating your property and still cash flow.

We're always working to improve our rent analysis tools, and towards that end, we're excited to announce the release of our "baths" filter.