China Index Academy: In September, the housing rental market gradually entered the off-season, with rental demand cooling in key cities.

Zhito Finance APP has learned that on October 14, the China Index Academy released the September 2026 ranking of China's housing rental enterprise scale. In September 2026, the housing rental market gradually entered the off-season, rental demand in key cities cooled, and the average residential rent in 50 cities turned to a slight month-on-month decline. According to the China Index Academy's 50-city residential rental price index, the average residential rent in 50 cities nationwide was 33.97 yuan/square meter/month, down 0.17% month-on-month, compared with a month-on-month increase of 0.03% in August; it fell 2.23% year-on-year, with the decline narrowing by 0.22 percentage points from August.