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Rent data

How rents are calculated

The rules behind reported rents, medians, ranges and filtered market pages.

Last updated 6 August 2026

Which reports count

Calculations use active tenant-submitted rent reports that match the place and filters being viewed. Pending, hidden and removed reports do not count. Rentnama does not fill an empty place with scraped listings, broker quotes or an estimated rent.

When there is one report

With one matching report, the page shows that value as a reported rent. It does not call it a median, a range or a typical deposit. The report count stays visible so the evidence cannot look larger than it is.

When there are two or more

With two or more matching reports, Rentnama uses the median—the middle value after rents are ordered. For an even number of reports, it uses the midpoint of the two middle values.

The median is less easily pulled by one unusually expensive home or a mistaken entry than the arithmetic mean. The visible range keeps genuine variation from disappearing behind that middle number.

Filters recalculate the answer

City, locality, home type and budget pages calculate from the active reports matching that exact selection. A narrow page is not just a label pasted over a city-wide number. Empty combinations show no figure, and thin combinations may be withheld from search indexing until they add useful evidence.