Columbus, Ohio's rental market has stayed strong with quick turnover, while other Midwest and Northeast cities like Hartford and Chicago are attracting renters fleeing expensive metros like New York and Boston. Affordability, tight inventory, and good schools are drawing people in.
You know, somehow we've been relatively isolated from this in Columbus, Ohio. I don't know why, but our days on market has been pretty good all year. We're moving properties, so I don't know if Columbus is somehow insulated a little bit from some of the broader economic headwinds, but that's been at least a little reprieve for us.
Yeah. Realtor.com had a great report on their top markets and the big winners were the Northeast and the Midwest. And that's specifically, they call them like refuge markets. So versus, you know, a New York or a Boston where things are really pricey, people are moving out to— I think like one of the top 3 markets was Hartford, Connecticut. I actually recently saw a little clip on Chicago because Chicago's doing really well right now. And so there's these, these winter markets where things are a little more affordable, inventory's tight, schools are good. And so people are moving out of the really expensive markets and just moving to these refuge markets.
