Yea, but the smaller ones rented by an owner aren’t in the big website listings so they don’t get lumped up in the averages they get published.

Meanwhile big companies will list 50 units a month across their buildings on a dozen websites via an automated system.

People insist there’s some central registry of rents, but there isn’t. All these averages are based on collected data. Nobody has it all. They’re all biased to their collection methods.

Quite a few smaller landlords refuse to pay to list an apartment and will stick to word of mouth, Facebook, a sign in the window etc.