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http://www.azfamily.com/news/consumer/stories/KTVKLNews20071018_western-rents.181afe539.html

Western apartment rents still rising amid home-buying slump

08:37 AM Mountain Standard Time on Thursday, October 18, 2007

By The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- A quarterly survey shows that apartment rents throughout the western United States are still on the rise.

The average cost of renting an apartment in September increased from last year in all 20 major Western markets covered by Novato, California-based research firm RealFacts.

Los Angeles and Orange counties in California remain the West's most expensive metropolitan market to lease an apartment, with rents averaging $1,630.

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The average rent in metro Phoenix area is $815 a month -- up 3.2 percent from the same period last year.

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