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Measuring Rents

How quickly are rents increasing? And how will this impact measures of inflation?

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CalculatedRisk by Bill McBride
Oct 03, 2021
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Earlier I wrote: The Rapid Increase in Rents, What is happening? Why? And what will happen.

Today, I’m going to take a step back and discuss measuring rents. Historically I’ve used Owners' equivalent rent of residences (OER) as a measure of rent (part of the monthly CPI report from the BLS). For example, when I present the house price-to-rent ratio, I…

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