What a unit is advertised at and what the last tenant actually signed are two different numbers. We hold both, and only one of them is evidence.
Like-for-like comps on bed count and type. If nothing comparable exists nearby, it says so instead of inventing a number.
What an address should rent for, from signed leases nearby. Pure like-for-like comps. If nothing comparable exists it says so instead of inventing a number.
How long an active rental will take to lease, built only from signed leases — and the running accuracy score is published on the page.
If you might ever let this place out, the signed rent is the number that decides whether owning it is survivable. It is also the honest test of a price: a home that cannot cover itself at market rent is a bet on the market, not an investment.
Only ever compare within one bed count. Blending a studio and a three-bedroom into one 'average rent' produces a number that describes no apartment that exists.
Rent-versus-buy arithmetic usually pencils in rent growing about 3% a year. Over decades that is an honest default — but the last five years ran far hotter than that, and anyone who renewed a South Florida lease through them felt it. That is the quiet case for owning: a fixed mortgage freezes the biggest line of your housing cost on the day you close, while a renter renegotiates it every year in whatever market shows up. We will not put a number on the next five years — nobody honest can — but only one of the two paths leaves you exposed to it.
The investor door goes further than this page does.