Name: Boston Rental Market Data — Spot Easy
Creator: Spot Easy
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Boston rent doesn't make sense until you see the actual numbers. Every Friday we publish asking prices from licensed agents' active listings — Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, and the surrounding cities. Not national estimates.

01 Featured Report

Live · Every Friday

Boston Rent Index

Allston, Jamaica Plain, South End — the price gap between them is bigger than most people expect. Every Friday we publish a neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown with sample sizes, so you can see exactly how much data is behind each number.

Published every Friday morning

02 All Reports

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Boston Rent Index

What does a 1-bedroom go for in Allston this week? A studio in Fenway? Median asking rents for every major Boston neighborhood, every Friday.

Live · Weekly
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Hot Neighborhoods Report

Which neighborhoods are getting the most renter attention right now, and which are cooling off. We track lead volume week over week, with a working professional / student split.

Coming Soon
03

Sept 1 Countdown

Most Boston leases start September 1. Nowhere else in the country works this way. We track how many Sept 1 units are listed right now and what they're asking.

Starts June
04

Building Type Report

Apartment, condo, multi-family, brownstone — what you pay in Boston depends a lot on what you're renting. We break down median asking rent by building type and bedroom count across Greater Boston.

Coming Soon
05

Studio Squeeze & Roommate Premium

Solo studio or split a 2-bedroom? We calculate monthly cost per person for both across every major Boston neighborhood.

Coming Soon
06

Top Boston Brokerages

Which agencies have the most listings on the market right now. Useful if you want more options or a faster response.

Coming Soon

03 Data Desk

For Journalists & Researchers

Need data for a story?

We publish weekly rental market data sourced directly from our production database — active listings from verified, licensed agents across Greater Boston. All methodology is public.

Covering Boston rent trends? Ask us — we can often pull specific data for your story.

Joel Mundele, CEO — joel@spoteasy.com

Spot Easy in the Press

Boston Globe

Boston's brutal rental market: the final insult has arrived — bidding wars

June 11, 2023
Boston.com

Boston's rental market and bidding wars

June 12, 2023

How we collect this data +

Source: All data is pulled from Spot Easy's live listings database — active rental listings posted by verified, licensed real estate agents. MLS (MlsPin) listings are included.

Geography: Greater Boston — Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Newton, Everett, Quincy, Watertown, and Malden.

Active listings only: is_on_market = true, not a draft, not admin-removed, rent between $500 and $20,000.

Deduplication: One listing per unique address + unit + bedroom count, keeping the most recently updated record.

Bedroom buckets: Studio / 1 BR / 2 BR / 3 BR / 4+ BR.

Minimum sample size: Cells with fewer than 20 listings are suppressed and shown as —.

Metrics: Median asking rent, 25th and 75th percentile, week-over-week and year-over-year change.

Week-over-week: same neighborhood × bedroom cell from the prior Friday's snapshot.
Year-over-year: same cell from 52 weeks prior.

Updated every Friday morning. Questions? joel@spoteasy.com

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