Hotigloos.com, an apartment listing website, just launched a free embeddable widget (ala Rentbits) allowing you to display the current median rent for different apartment home types in different U.S. metropolitan areas, directly on your website. Another chart illustrates average price trends over the previous six months, tracking changes in the market according to line type.
Although this only includes data from the Hotigloos database, any information about rental rates is valuable to a first time renter, in choosing when is the best time to sign a lease, or negotiate rent, though average rent in NYC has skyrocketed up this year. Zillow has long since (and contraversially) displayed sales history, and rental history is much harder to keep accurate...