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Rent Prices Fall, in Sign Inflation Is Receding

Rent Prices Fall, in Sign Inflation Is Receding

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Aug 29, 2025
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The government is scheduled Friday morning August 29 to release its personal consumption expenditures price index data for the month of July. But in a sign of how private data providers are faster and sometimes more accurate than the government, there’s already private data available for the month of August—and it shows “The national median rent dipped by 0.2% in August…Rent prices nationally are down 0.9% compared to one year ago.”

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