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Metro Atlanta rents continue to decline, per report

The behavior of Atlanta’s rental market follows a regional trend.

ATLANTA — Rents are still falling in metro Atlanta.

Atlanta joins fellow Southern metros Austin and Memphis in seeing some of the greatest drops in asking rent prices year-over-year, according to a March rental report from Realtor.com.

Across the 50 largest metro areas analyzed for the report, Atlanta saw the fourth-largest decrease in pricing for studio, one- and two-bedroom units. Asking rents dropped nearly 4% in the metro area over the past 12 months.

The median rental price for studio to two-bedroom units in metro Atlanta was $1,626, less than the national median asking rent of $1,722.

March marked the eighth consecutive month of year-over-year rental decreases nationwide.

Read the full story in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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