San Francisco, San Jose Single-Family Rents Climb Nearly 6% While National Rents Slide 1.6%

The Bay Area’s technology corridor has emerged as the strongest single-family rental market in the country during the first half of 2026, with San Francisco, San Jose and a string of Peninsula cities posting mid-single-digit rent growth even as nearly half of the 1,099 U.S. markets tracked by Rentometer recorded…