For renters with pets, discovering a house is not straightforward — until you are trying in Texas.
Austin (80 %), Dallas (79 %) and San Antonio (78 %) led all main U.S. metros final 12 months within the share of pet-friendly rental listings on Zillow.
One notable exception was Houston, which ranked useless final with simply 38 % of listings marked as pet pleasant.
These findings come from a new Zillow analysis of 11 million listings nationwide, which confirmed that 57 % of leases allowed pets final 12 months.
However there was extensive variance from metropolis to metropolis, with the Lone Star trifecta close to 80 %, whereas locations like Windfall, R.I. (43 %), Hartford, Conn. (43 %) and San Jos, Calif. (44 %) had been all under half.
The pet-or-no-pet resolution has turn out to be much more necessary lately as almost 6 in 10 renters now have a pet, up from 46 % earlier than the pandemic, Zillow mentioned.
For landlords, permitting pets can repay, since pet-friendly leases have a tendency to attract extra views and are usually rented out eight days sooner, the evaluation discovered.
“In a market the place renters have extra choices, permitting pets could make the distinction find a tenant shortly,” Emily McDonald, Zillow rental tendencies professional, mentioned in a press release.
The rental market firm mentioned nearly half of those that have a pet have handed on a property as a result of it was not pet-friendly, however the benefit to landlords varies from metropolis to metropolis.
In New York Metropolis, pet-friendly models are usually rented 26 days sooner than locations that didn’t settle for pets, the largest hole of any main market. Tampa, Fla. (16 days), Columbus, Ohio (12 days) and Phoenix, Ariz. (11 days), all noticed pet-friendly listings rented out greater than 10 days faster.
High 10 cities with the best share of pet-friendly rental listings on Zillow final 12 months:
- Austin, Texas (80 %)
- Dallas, Texas (79 %)
- San Antonio, Texas (78 %)
- Denver (77 %)
- Nashville, Tenn. (77 %)
- Kansas Metropolis, Mo. (76 %)
- Oklahoma Metropolis (72 %)
- Charlotte, N.C. (72 %)
- Raleigh, N.C. (72 %)
- Jacksonville, Fla. (70 %) and Tampa, Fla. (70 %)