Beacon Hill’s apartment rental market has entered 2022 looking much healthier than it did a year ago. Due in large part to remote work and remote learning trends, the availability rate of Beacon Hill apartments hovered between 10-13% for nearly 6 months in 2021. Once pandemic restrictions eased, campuses and offices reopened. This resulted in Beacon Hill’s real-time availability rate (RTAR) to free fall to 0.98% by mid-November. Now, the rental supply in Beacon Hill is as tight as it has ever been.
Beacon Hill Apartment Availability
The most recent rental data in Beacon Hill shows that the RTAR is currently 4.56%. Compared to its pre-pandemic level in early April of 2019, apartment availability is -19.72% lower in 2022. The current RTAR ranks as the lowest on record for Beacon Hill during the second week of April. That is astonishing considering that last April the availability rate in Beacon Hill hit an unprecedented 12.81% before peaking at 13.67% by late May of 2021.
Beacon Hill Vacancy Rate Nearing Record Lows
The current real-time vacancy rate (RTVR) in Beacon Hill sits at a paltry 0.35%. The previous all-time low was set in November 2019, when that figure hit 0.22%. Considering we still have the busy summer leasing season ahead of us, it’s not unimaginable that we might see 100% occupancy in Beacon Hill before September.
These record low supply figures we’re seeing to start 2022 will undoubtedly push rent prices upwards this year.
Beacon Hill Average Rent Prices
The current average rent price in Beacon Hill is $3,020. That figure is down $249 from its all time high of $3,279 set in January 2020. As Beacon Hill struggled with the rental supply glut throughout the pandemic, rent prices stagnated between $2,900 and $3,000. That trend seems to have subsided as the average rent price in Beacon Hill surpassed $3,000 for the first time since January 2021 earlier this month.
Despite the drop in rent prices, Beacon Hill remains to be one of…