This year’s Regional Benchmarking Report by the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission presents a mixture of good and bad news.
“The big picture is that Hampton Roads is stable and growing, but slowly, and in some cases we are falling behind similarly sized metro areas,” said Nikki Johnson, an economist with the commission.
Rent is one of those cases, which is growing in Hampton Roads twice as fast as the national average. The region’s rent growth is now the fourth highest among metros in the U.S., according to the 2026 report…