Rent prices across the country dropped an average of 0.5% in September. That’s the fifth month in a row that rent prices have dropped and while rates are still higher than pre-pandemic prices, it’s significantly down from the peak cost recorded in July 2022.

That’s excellent news for prospective renters.

If you live on the East Coast, you may have driven through roundabouts in your neighborhood countless times. Or maybe, if you’re in some parts farther west, you’ve never encountered one of these intersections. But roundabouts, while a relatively new traffic control measure, are catching on across the United States.

In the years since the Great Recession, when housing prices dramatically fell, Wall Street investors have been buying large numbers of single-family homes to use as rentals. As of 2022, big investment firms owned nearly 600,000 such properties nationwide.