Boston Rent Index · Week of

The price of a Boston apartment, neighborhood by neighborhood.

What changed this week

Joel Mundele, CEO, Spot Easy

Median asking rent by neighborhood

N is the number of listings behind each figure. Any cell with fewer than 20 is suppressed — the sample isn't big enough to mean anything.

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Neighborhood Studio 1BR 2BR 3BR 4+BR N

By building type

Multi-family homes, brownstones, condos, apartments — they don't price the same in Boston. Here's what each building type is actually going for right now.

Building type Studio 1BR 2BR 3BR 4+BR
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How we calculate this

Each Friday morning we snapshot every active listing on Spot Easy and partner sources across Greater Boston — Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Newton, Everett, Quincy, Watertown, and Malden. We exclude drafts, listings removed by admins, and asking rents below $500 or above $20,000 (typical bad-data territory). We dedupe across sources by address + unit number, normalize bedroom counts into Studio/1/2/3/4+, and require at least 20 active listings in any cell before publishing it. The resulting median is the one shown.

This isn't a transaction price. It's the median asking rent for what's currently listed — same as Zillow's ZORI or Apartment List's index, but built specifically for Greater Boston using Spot Easy's verified-agent inventory. Want the raw data? Download the CSV.

Questions or want a custom data pull for a story? Email press@spoteasy.com.

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