Boston Rental Market Timing
Know when to Start Looking
Know when to Start Looking
Fortunately for you, the Boston Rental Market is a heart with a regular beat. The same set of folks come in and out every single year, to the beat of the same drums. This regularity makes it easy for you to know when to start looking for a new place to live.Below is a list of months in the year, organized in order of popular moving date, along with the dates the apartments first go on the market.
#1 September 1st
Busiest moving day of the year. All year long, starting in December, you can find listings for September first. If you are an undergraduate student looking for off-campus housing you will want to start looking in December/January to rent a three bedroom or larger apartment. If you wait to February or March, you will be rummaging through left overs, the turkey carcass may even be picked so clean by then that you'll have to break up your groups in pairs and go looking for smaller units.For undergraduate housing in the studio, ones and twos category, you can wait for February or
March to role in before looking. For graduate students and professionals, you should start looking in May and June for decent September 1st housing opportunities.
