{"id":634,"date":"2026-01-27T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:00:00","slug":"washington-dc-rents-are-going-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Washington, DC Rents Are Going Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Rents in the Washington\u2013Arlington\u2013Alexandria metro rose 0.5% year-over-year in November 2025 but are gradually cooling after a post-pandemic surge. Affordability remains a challenge, with minimum-wage earners needing to work over 50 hours weekly to afford median rents. National rents fell 1% year-over-year, marking 28 months of decline, yet remain 17.2% above pre-pandemic levels. Renting is still cheaper than buying in the area, though the gap is narrowing.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/advice\/hyperlocal\/washington-dc-rents-are-going-up\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rents in the Washington\u2013Arlington\u2013Alexandria metro rose 0.5% year-over-year in November 2025 but are gradually cooling after a post-pandemic surge. Affordability remains a challenge, with minimum-wage earners needing to work over 50 hours weekly to afford median rents. National rents fell 1% year-over-year, marking 28 months of decline, yet remain 17.2% above pre-pandemic levels. Renting is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}