The government may be shut down and the economy may be flatlining, but according to the numbers, finding an apartment in Dallas was a little bit easier this summer. It’s reassuring to know that rental opportunities are expanding as the likelihood of homeownership outside of the Middle of Nowhere, Texas, wanes.
A new study from RentCafe, ranking competitive rental markets, found that Dallas renters had an easier time during peak rental season, typically the summer, in 2025. They say it’s because apartments took longer to fill, there were fewer applicants, and more units became available.
Maybe more units are becoming available because everyone is surging to the ever-thriving burbs, or taking a page out of Fort Worth Chief Police Eddie Garcia’s playbook and backstabbing Big D for new digs in Cowtown. Perhaps they’re even fleeing south to keep Austin weird…