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Recent Examples of rentalsMonthly rentals now make up 19% of total national rental demand.—Sara B. Hansen, Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2026 According to the city, in this fiscal year on top of summer camps the property has hosted 19 rentals/retreats, mostly on weekends, with two weeklong rentals and one two-week rental.—Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rentals
rents
Noun
In fact, most of the musicians who live in Hertz’s buildings are veterans of the city’s music scene who, over the decades, have had to move farther and farther away from Manhattan and the swaths of Brooklyn and Queens where rents are climbing even more rapidly.
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Daniel Yadin,
Curbed,
11 Feb. 2026
All of this underlines why fixing the problem of affordable housing in New York City is not so simple as freezing rents.