Hunting For A Queens Apartment? Good Luck With That, Study Says

QUEENS, NY — Queens is where city renters’ dreams of easy apartment hunts go to die.

Or at least that’s what a new StreetEasy study released Thursday indicated.

The World’s Borough has the city’s most severe shortages of available apartments, thus making it the most competitive rental market, the study found.

Only one Queens neighborhood made the study’s top 10 neighborhoods with the fastest-rising rental inventory.

"Ranked eighth, Long Island City was the only Queens neighborhood to make StreetEasy's list of where rental inventory is rising fastest," the study states.

Average Queens apartment listings attracted more nearly 77 percent more inquiries in August than the same month in 2019 — an increase that outpaced other boroughs, the study found.

Queens rental on the market dropped 10 percent from August 2019 while total inquiries jumped 80 percent, according to the study.

Rent across Queens in August stood at $2,900 in August, or 11 percent higher year-over-year, StreetEasy found.

"Inventory shortages continued to fuel competition for rentals on the market, thereby driving up asking rents across the city," the study states.

Read the full StreetEasy study here.