Having ticked up in late August, the weighted average asking rent in Oakland has since held at around $2,400 a month, with the average asking rent for a one-bedroom in the city having effectively held at $2,000 a month since the third quarter of last year.

As such, while asking rents in Oakland are 3 percent higher, on average, than at the same time last year and 5 percent higher than in May, when rents in the city bottomed, they’re still 10 percent lower than prior to the pandemic and 19 percent below their 2016-era peaks of closer to $3,000 per month.

And while inventory levels have dropped around 15 percent since peaking in the first quarter of the year, and are even on a year-over-year basis, there are still twice as many apartments listed for rent in Oakland than there were at the end of 2019. We’ll keep you posted and plugged-in.

3 thoughts on “Rebound in Oakland Rents Has Stalled”
  1. And while inventory levels have dropped around 15 percent since peaking in the first quarter of the year, and are even on a year-over-year basis, there are still twice as many apartments listed for rent in Oakland than there were at the end of 2019.

    Does this differentiate b/w inventory due to new construction and vacancy of pre-existing units?

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