{"id":7,"date":"2026-09-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/bullrei-com\/2026\/09\/04\/phoenix-rent-is-below-the-national-average-but-still-climbing\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:00:00","slug":"phoenix-rent-is-below-the-national-average-but-still-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/04\/phoenix-rent-is-below-the-national-average-but-still-climbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix rent is below the national average \u2014 but still climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Phoenix rents increased 0.3% from last year, averaging $1,727, below the national average of $1,962. A typical Phoenix household needs an annual income of $69,094 to afford rent. Nationally, rent rose 2.3%, the fastest in over a year, with households needing $78,488 annually for rent, compared to nearly $99,800 for a mortgage, showing a $21,000 affordability gap.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/08\/19\/phoenix-rent-is-below-national-average-still-climbing\/?outputType=amp\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix rents increased 0.3% from last year, averaging $1,727, below the national average of $1,962. A typical Phoenix household needs an annual income of $69,094 to afford rent. Nationally, rent rose 2.3%, the fastest in over a year, with households needing $78,488 annually for rent, compared to nearly $99,800 for a mortgage, showing a $21,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}