RentLens updates: October 2026
October was about reach: a price that nobody has to think twice about, reports that cover home values as well as rents, and an Explorer that shows how a market has moved as one continuous picture.
What’s new
Pro is now $9 a month. The full twelve-month forecast for every market, the month-by-month tables, favourites reports and explainability now cost $9 a month, or $90 a year. Business, which adds up to five seats and Excel export, is $39 a month or $390 a year. The 30-day free trial of Pro stays, and the plan grid on the About page now has the same monthly / annual switch as the upgrade dialog, so the yearly saving is visible before you sign up.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | Explorer, home values, the first two forecast months |
| Pro | $9 | $90 | Twelve-month forecasts, reports, explainability |
| Business | $39 | $390 | Pro for up to five seats, plus Excel export |
Reports for home values. The Reports tab now follows the Rent / Value switch in the header. Flip it to Value and every market you follow shows its current home value and the twelve-month value outlook, with the same change columns as the rent report.
Every forecast month, at a glance. The Reports tab was rebuilt around the full forecast path: current rent, then each of the next twelve months across the row. A “Show $ / %” switch turns the levels into changes, and you choose the basis: year over year, cumulative from today, or month on month. The market name and current rent stay pinned while the months scroll, and Business customers can export the whole report with one sheet per view.
A timeline that moves like one picture. Press play on the Explorer timeline and each market’s colour now drifts from one month to the next instead of jumping, at more than twice the previous pace. The colour scale itself is continuous, so a market moving from +1.9% to +2.1% shades a little warmer rather than changing colour outright, and a flat market reads as a calm grey tile.
Small things that add up. Your light or dark choice now sticks across every page. On phones the Explorer map fills the whole screen. The export buttons on each market page sit beside the chart and the table they export, and the forecast line on those pages matches the rest of the chart.
Market pulse
September data has landed for every market we track. The typical metro rent stands at $1,403 a month, up 3.8% on a year earlier across the 603 metros with a full year of history. Home values are rising more slowly: the typical metro value is $279,700, up 2.3% on the year.
Looking ahead, our forecasting engine expects rents to be higher twelve months from now in every one of the 613 metros it currently forecasts, by 4.3% on average. That is a broad-based rise rather than a hot-market story, and the month-by-month tables show it building gradually through the spring. The September rent and home value outlooks on this blog carry the metro detail and the scorecard for last month’s calls.
Explore the interactive forecast at rentlens.co. Pro unlocks the full twelve months for every market, free for the first 30 days.