NYC Rent Report: October 2026
Key findings
October at a glance
Each finding states its own sample, so it can be quoted on its own.
The median asking rent for a one-bedroom apartment listed in New York City in October 2026 was $3,895 a month, across 5,408 new one-bedroom listings.
That is 1.4% lower than September 2026, when new one-bedroom listings asked a median $3,950.
Manhattan had the highest median one-bedroom asking rent at $4,900 (2,642 listings), and the Bronx the lowest at $2,476 (178 listings).
Lease takeovers, where a tenant hands over their existing lease, asked a median 2.8% more than other new listings with the same bedroom count in the same neighborhood (199 takeovers compared).
Of the new listings that stated their fee terms, 95.6% said they were no-fee to the renter (8,403 of 8,788).
Apartments StreetEasy reported as rented in October 2026 had been on the market a median of 18 days since Buzzedin first saw them (6,300 rentals).
Citywide
Asking rents by apartment size
Median, 25th and 75th percentile asking rent of new listings in October 2026, with the change from September 2026 where both months have enough listings.
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| Bedrooms | Median | 25th pct | 75th pct | Listings | vs September |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $3,500 | $2,795 | $4,133 | 2,524 | +2.9% |
| 1 bedroom | $3,895 | $2,900 | $5,100 | 5,408 | -1.4% |
| 2 bedrooms | $4,500 | $3,397 | $6,450 | 4,332 | 0.0% |
| 3 bedrooms | $4,997 | $3,750 | $7,741 | 1,576 | 0.0% |
| 4 bedrooms | $5,997 | $4,700 | $9,995 | 330 | +5.2% |
Boroughs
Asking rents by borough
The same figures for each borough. A borough appears only for bedroom counts with enough listings.
Median 1-bedroom asking rent by borough
- Manhattan$4,900n 2,642
- Brooklyn$3,350n 1,663
- Queens$2,885n 917
- Bronx$2,476n 178
Manhattan
6,360 new listings, 44.9% of the city.
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| Bedrooms | Median | 25th pct | 75th pct | Listings | vs September |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $3,800 | $3,185 | $4,399 | 1,511 | +1.3% |
| 1 bedroom | $4,900 | $3,795 | $5,900 | 2,642 | -2.4% |
| 2 bedrooms | $6,397 | $4,795 | $8,495 | 1,592 | +10.4% |
| 3 bedrooms | $7,995 | $6,200 | $11,683 | 503 | +3.8% |
| 4 bedrooms | $10,500 | $6,146 | $13,624 | 112 | +5.1% |
Brooklyn
5,040 new listings, 35.6% of the city.
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| Bedrooms | Median | 25th pct | 75th pct | Listings | vs September |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $3,171 | $2,575 | $3,750 | 613 | +5.7% |
| 1 bedroom | $3,350 | $2,750 | $4,235 | 1,663 | +1.5% |
| 2 bedrooms | $4,000 | $3,250 | $5,392 | 1,850 | -3.6% |
| 3 bedrooms | $4,583 | $3,700 | $6,495 | 741 | +1.8% |
| 4 bedrooms | $5,750 | $4,795 | $6,995 | 173 | +15.2% |
Queens
2,327 new listings, 16.4% of the city.
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| Bedrooms | Median | 25th pct | 75th pct | Listings | vs September |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $2,640 | $2,065 | $3,584 | 347 | -5.6% |
| 1 bedroom | $2,885 | $2,450 | $3,850 | 917 | +1.2% |
| 2 bedrooms | $3,500 | $2,999 | $4,600 | 759 | -4.1% |
| 3 bedrooms | $3,800 | $3,400 | $4,500 | 267 | 0.0% |
| 4 bedrooms | $4,500 | $4,100 | $5,500 | 37 | n/a |
Bronx
420 new listings, 3.0% of the city.
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| Bedrooms | Median | 25th pct | 75th pct | Listings | vs September |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $2,251 | $1,889 | $2,475 | 49 | n/a |
| 1 bedroom | $2,476 | $2,150 | $2,921 | 178 | +0.5% |
| 2 bedrooms | $2,991 | $2,762 | $3,609 | 126 | -2.9% |
| 3 bedrooms | $3,500 | $3,273 | $4,425 | 60 | n/a |
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Asking rents by neighborhood
Every neighborhood with at least 20 new listings of one size in October 2026. Neighborhood names link to their rent pages.
One-bedroom apartments
Median asking rent among the 31 neighborhoods with at least 50 new one-bedroom listings.
Most expensive
- 1Chelsea $5,927
- 2Lincoln Square $5,800
- 3Gramercy Park $5,495
- 4West Village $5,495
- 5Financial District $5,386
Least expensive
- 1Forest Hills $2,600
- 2Mott Haven $2,865
- 3Flatbush $2,895
- 4Central Harlem $2,950
- 5Stuyvesant Heights $2,965
Two-bedroom apartments
Median asking rent among the 23 neighborhoods with at least 50 new two-bedroom listings.
Most expensive
- 1Lincoln Square $8,995
- 2Chelsea $8,513
- 3Lenox Hill $7,925
- 4Murray Hill $7,900
- 5Financial District $7,830
Least expensive
- 1Flatbush $3,199
- 2Mott Haven $3,213
- 3East Harlem $3,300
- 4Ditmars-Steinway $3,400
- 5Stuyvesant Heights $3,498
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| Neighborhood | Borough | Studio | 1BR | 2BR | 3BR | 4BR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Park City | Manhattan | $4,113n 32 | $5,340n 49 | $7,303n 28 | ||
| Carnegie Hill | Manhattan | $4,575n 30 | ||||
| Central Harlem | Manhattan | $2,398n 30 | $2,950n 55 | $3,573n 42 | ||
| Chelsea | Manhattan | $4,595n 75 | $5,927n 127 | $8,513n 56 | ||
| East Harlem | Manhattan | $2,828n 22 | $3,100n 69 | $3,300n 77 | $4,575n 28 | |
| East Village | Manhattan | $3,400n 60 | $4,200n 99 | $5,600n 81 | $7,695n 30 | |
| Financial District | Manhattan | $4,162n 133 | $5,386n 120 | $7,830n 56 | ||
| Fort George | Manhattan | $2,388n 22 | ||||
| Fulton/Seaport | Manhattan | $4,995n 21 | $5,666n 24 | |||
| Gramercy Park | Manhattan | $3,700n 33 | $5,495n 51 | $5,500n 21 | ||
| Greenwich Village | Manhattan | $3,950n 25 | $6,000n 41 | $6,385n 25 | ||
| Hamilton Heights | Manhattan | $2,687n 30 | $3,300n 27 | |||
| Hell's Kitchen | Manhattan | $3,924n 122 | $4,963n 229 | $6,995n 115 | $7,498n 32 | |
| Hudson Yards | Manhattan | $3,907n 47 | $5,140n 52 | |||
| Inwood | Manhattan | $2,438n 28 | ||||
| Kips Bay | Manhattan | $3,980n 74 | $5,150n 116 | $6,427n 62 | ||
| Lenox Hill | Manhattan | $3,200n 74 | $4,300n 123 | $7,925n 75 | $16,000n 27 | |
| Lincoln Square | Manhattan | $4,195n 42 | $5,800n 133 | $8,995n 59 | ||
| Lower East Side | Manhattan | $3,850n 25 | $4,099n 72 | $5,999n 58 | ||
| Midtown | Manhattan | $4,095n 43 | $5,000n 85 | $8,000n 31 | ||
| Midtown East (includes sub-neighborhoods) | Manhattan | $3,700n 216 | $5,100n 330 | $7,048n 174 | $8,336n 46 | |
| Midtown South | Manhattan | $4,250n 28 | $5,275n 39 | |||
| Midtown West (includes sub-neighborhoods) | Manhattan | $3,922n 173 | $4,995n 294 | $7,208n 138 | $7,500n 38 | |
| Murray Hill | Manhattan | $3,650n 71 | $5,295n 89 | $7,900n 60 | ||
| NoMad | Manhattan | $6,203n 47 | $9,720n 20 | |||
| Soho | Manhattan | $4,500n 27 | ||||
| South Harlem | Manhattan | $3,198n 32 | $4,310n 43 | |||
| Stuyvesant Town/PCV | Manhattan | $5,461n 45 | ||||
| Sutton Place | Manhattan | $4,500n 41 | ||||
| Tribeca | Manhattan | $7,250n 29 | $9,500n 35 | $12,955n 27 | ||
| Turtle Bay | Manhattan | $3,500n 43 | $4,625n 54 | $6,500n 25 | ||
| Upper East Side (includes sub-neighborhoods) | Manhattan | $3,150n 190 | $4,500n 348 | $6,598n 208 | $9,748n 72 | |
| Upper West Side (includes sub-neighborhoods) | Manhattan | $3,391n 174 | $4,998n 334 | $7,581n 190 | $7,800n 63 | |
| Washington Heights | Manhattan | $2,675n 25 | ||||
| West Chelsea | Manhattan | $4,587n 27 | $6,495n 33 | |||
| West Village | Manhattan | $4,200n 69 | $5,495n 83 | $6,700n 32 | ||
| Yorkville | Manhattan | $3,090n 81 | $4,095n 134 | $4,950n 67 | $8,655n 24 | |
| Bay Ridge | Brooklyn | $2,350n 22 | ||||
| Bedford-Stuyvesant (includes sub-neighborhoods) | Brooklyn | $2,600n 57 | $3,075n 185 | $3,545n 233 | $4,495n 148 | $6,000n 41 |
| Boerum Hill | Brooklyn | $5,625n 26 | ||||
| Brooklyn Heights | Brooklyn | $4,916n 26 | $6,385n 26 | |||
| Bushwick | Brooklyn | $2,750n 33 | $3,100n 121 | $3,600n 240 | $4,300n 137 | $5,350n 45 |
| Clinton Hill | Brooklyn | $3,948n 28 | $4,995n 30 | $5,625n 20 | ||
| Crown Heights (includes sub-neighborhoods) | Brooklyn | $3,180n 38 | $3,483n 148 | $4,000n 172 | $4,497n 60 | $5,271n 23 |
| Cypress Hills | Brooklyn | $3,265n 26 | ||||
| Ditmas Park | Brooklyn | $2,500n 25 | ||||
| Downtown Brooklyn | Brooklyn | $3,731n 34 | $4,657n 95 | $6,208n 46 | ||
| East Flatbush | Brooklyn | $2,700n 20 | $2,795n 45 | |||
| East New York | Brooklyn | $2,786n 27 | $3,197n 20 | |||
| East Williamsburg | Brooklyn | $4,595n 31 | ||||
| Flatbush | Brooklyn | $2,548n 66 | $2,895n 137 | $3,199n 129 | $3,500n 37 | |
| Fort Greene | Brooklyn | $3,582n 36 | $4,453n 66 | $6,386n 46 | ||
| Fort Hamilton | Brooklyn | $2,300n 26 | ||||
| Gowanus | Brooklyn | $3,403n 23 | $4,089n 57 | $5,967n 54 | ||
| Greenpoint | Brooklyn | $3,850n 45 | $4,500n 87 | $5,050n 84 | $7,600n 32 | |
| Greenwood | Brooklyn | $3,025n 30 | ||||
| Kensington | Brooklyn | $2,250n 29 | $2,950n 21 | |||
| Midwood | Brooklyn | $2,475n 33 | $3,000n 28 | |||
| Ocean Hill | Brooklyn | $3,100n 26 | $4,000n 30 | |||
| Park Slope | Brooklyn | $3,809n 68 | $5,365n 74 | $8,600n 20 | ||
| Prospect Heights | Brooklyn | $4,363n 24 | ||||
| Prospect Lefferts Gardens | Brooklyn | $2,950n 25 | $3,800n 31 | |||
| Stuyvesant Heights | Brooklyn | $2,575n 27 | $2,965n 78 | $3,498n 108 | $4,495n 48 | |
| Sunset Park | Brooklyn | $2,950n 21 | ||||
| Weeksville | Brooklyn | $2,675n 24 | $3,350n 32 | |||
| Williamsburg | Brooklyn | $4,069n 79 | $4,777n 156 | $5,500n 207 | $7,195n 75 | |
| Windsor Terrace | Brooklyn | $4,623n 22 | ||||
| Astoria | Queens | $2,530n 44 | $3,125n 213 | $3,850n 215 | $4,000n 58 | |
| Ditmars-Steinway | Queens | $2,550n 28 | $3,400n 61 | |||
| Elmhurst | Queens | $2,450n 21 | ||||
| Flushing | Queens | $2,400n 28 | ||||
| Forest Hills | Queens | $2,290n 27 | $2,600n 51 | $3,400n 38 | ||
| Hunters Point | Queens | $3,875n 55 | $4,459n 119 | $6,495n 79 | ||
| Jackson Heights | Queens | $2,550n 27 | ||||
| Jamaica | Queens | $2,585n 40 | $2,999n 35 | |||
| Kew Gardens | Queens | $2,500n 30 | ||||
| Long Island City | Queens | $3,584n 72 | $4,150n 119 | $5,935n 58 | ||
| Rego Park | Queens | $2,575n 36 | ||||
| Ridgewood | Queens | $2,972n 24 | $3,428n 41 | $4,350n 29 | ||
| Sunnyside | Queens | $2,695n 41 | ||||
| Woodside | Queens | $2,599n 31 | $3,390n 24 | |||
| Mott Haven | Bronx | $2,419n 21 | $2,865n 63 | $3,213n 54 |
Takeovers
Lease takeovers
Apartments whose current tenant is handing over their existing lease.
245 of the new listings in October 2026 (1.7%) were lease takeovers: the current tenant offering their existing lease to whoever takes the apartment over. Compared with other new listings with the same bedroom count in the same neighborhood, takeovers asked a median 2.8% more (199 takeovers had enough comparable listings to compare).
How takeovers work, and what to check before taking one over: the NYC lease takeover guide.
| Bedrooms | Median | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | $3,698 | 50 |
| 1 bedroom | $4,150 | 111 |
| 2 bedrooms | $5,999 | 64 |
Rent stabilization
Buildings with rent-stabilized units
Listings matched to the New York State DHCR list of buildings with rent-stabilized units.
5,927 new listings (41.8%) were in buildings on the state’s list of buildings with rent-stabilized units. Within the same neighborhood and bedroom count, they asked a median 3.0% less than other listings (4,801 listings in these buildings, 6,300 others).
The list is about buildings, not apartments: a listing in one of these buildings is not necessarily a rent-stabilized apartment, and individual apartments can differ. Browse listings in buildings with rent-stabilized units.
Fees
Broker fees after the FARE Act
Fee terms as the listings stated them.
Of the 8,788 new listings that stated their fee terms, 8,403 (95.6%) said they were no-fee to the renter and 385 named a broker fee. Another 5,382 listings did not state fee terms either way and are not in that share.
New York City’s FARE Act, in effect since June 11, 2025, makes whoever hires the broker pay the broker’s fee. What the FARE Act changed for renters.
Amenities
What amenities add to the asking rent
Each comparison holds neighborhood and apartment size fixed, so an amenity common in pricier areas does not read as a premium.
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| Amenity | Difference | With | Without | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doorman | +15.5% | 5,972 | 1,441 | 63.3% |
| Elevator | +14.9% | 8,007 | 1,366 | 82.5% |
| In-unit laundry | +11.1% | 4,558 | 5,391 | 89.0% |
| Private outdoor space | +8.8% | 5,786 | 3,519 | 82.8% |
Time to rent
How long apartments took to rent
Apartments StreetEasy reported as rented in October 2026, counted from the day Buzzedin first saw the listing.
Half of the apartments StreetEasy reported as rented in October 2026 had been on the market between 9 and 38 days since Buzzedin first saw them.
- Manhattan20 days2,946 rentals
- Brooklyn15 days2,380 rentals
- Queens20 days826 rentals
- Bronx30 days145 rentals
Inventory
Where new listings were posted
New listings Buzzedin first saw in October 2026, by borough.
- Manhattan6,36044.9%
- Brooklyn5,04035.6%
- Queens2,32716.4%
- Bronx4203.0%
- Staten Island230.2%
Manhattan accounted for 44.9% of the 14,170 new listings. Counts reflect the listings Buzzedin tracks, not every apartment for rent in the city, so they describe where listings were posted rather than total supply.
Methodology
How this report is made
Definitions, sources, exclusions and limits behind every number above.
- What is counted
- Asking rents of the rental listings Buzzedin first saw between October 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 (New York time): 14,170 listings. A listing counts in the month Buzzedin first saw it.
- Sources
- Public rental listings Buzzedin aggregates from StreetEasy, NYBits, Reddit, Leasebreak and Buzzedin lease takeovers (posted by tenants). Corcoran, OpenIgloo is left out of this edition because Buzzedin began tracking it after September 2026 began; its first day returned every listing it had, not new ones, so including it would distort both months.
- Exclusions
- Duplicate postings of the same apartment are counted once. Rooms in shared apartments and sublets are excluded. Only exact bedroom counts from studio to 4 bedrooms, asking rents from $1,000 to $50,000 a month, and the five boroughs are included.
- Asking rent, not signed rent
- Figures are the monthly rents listings asked, before any concession such as a free month. They are not the rents tenants signed for, and they describe new listings, not every lease in the city. A listing whose asking rent changed counts at its latest asking rent when the edition was generated.
- Medians and samples
- Every figure is a median with its sample size (n). Bedroom, borough and neighborhood figures appear only with at least 20 listings. The 25th and 75th percentiles show the middle half of asking rents.
- Neighborhoods
- Neighborhood names come from the listings and are folded into one name per neighborhood ("Bed Stuy" and "Bedford-Stuyvesant" are one). Umbrella areas such as the Upper East Side also count their sub-neighborhoods. Most and least expensive rankings need 50 listings and leave umbrella areas out, so no listing is ranked twice.
- Month-over-month change
- Compared with listings first seen in September 2026, by the same method and from the same sources. A change is shown only when both months have at least 100 listings. A citywide change can differ from every borough’s own change when the mix of new listings shifts between boroughs, since each borough asks a different rent. Neighborhood-level changes are not published: a single month of one neighborhood is too small for a change to be distinguishable from noise.
- Comparisons within a neighborhood
- Lease takeover, rent-stabilized building and amenity comparisons divide each listing’s rent by the median of listings with the same bedroom count in the same neighborhood, then compare the median of those ratios between the two groups. This keeps location and size from posing as a premium or a discount.
- Lease takeovers
- A lease takeover is a listing where the current tenant offers their existing lease to a new tenant, identified from how the source labels the listing (a lease assignment posted by the tenant) or, when the source does not say, from the listing text. Some takeover posts quote a net effective rent.
- Rent-stabilized buildings
- A listing counts when its address matched a building on the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) list of buildings with rent-stabilized units. The list is about buildings: a listing in such a building is not necessarily a rent-stabilized apartment, and the address match can miss buildings or match the wrong one.
- Fees
- Fee terms are read from the listing text. "No-fee" means the listing said the renter pays no broker fee; it is not a verified absence of fees. Listings that did not state fee terms are counted separately and left out of the share.
- Amenities
- Amenities are read from the listing text. An amenity is compared only when at least 50% of listings state it either way and each side has at least 100 listings; a listing that does not mention it sits out.
- Days on market
- For apartments StreetEasy reported as rented during the month and that Buzzedin had tracked, the days between the day Buzzedin first saw the listing and the rented date StreetEasy reported. StreetEasy rentals only.
- Stable numbers
- This edition was generated on November 1, 2026 and stored as a fixed snapshot (method version 1). Its numbers do not change after publication, even when later data corrects individual listings.
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