Framingham renters got a bit of a break last month, with the median apartment listing price falling to $2,388 in October — a 10% drop from the $2,658 median recorded in October 2025. The decline didn't stop there: prices also slid 5% from September's $2,505 median, according to newly released rental data.
The figures come from Zumper data cited by MetroWest Daily News, which reported that out of 236 rental listings in Framingham, none were subsidized. The outlet notes that Zumper's methodology reflects the median rent for all listings that were active at any given point during the month, rather than a snapshot of a single day.
One- and Two-Bedroom Units Barely Budged Month to Month
Breaking it down by unit size, one-bedroom apartments in Framingham listed at a median of $2,270 in October, nearly identical to September's $2,260. But compared to October 2025, when one-bedrooms carried a $2,430 median, that's a 7% drop, per the same report.
Two-bedroom units told a similar story. October's median of $2,740 was basically flat against September's $2,760, and the report notes rents dipped only slightly from October 2025's $2,880 median. The month-to-month stability suggests the bigger year-over-year decline may be more about where rents started than any sudden October shift.
How Framingham Stacks Up Against the State and the Nation
Framingham's typical listing remains well below the statewide picture. The town's apartments listed 24% below the Massachusetts median in October, with one-bedrooms running 16% below the state figure and two-bedrooms 15% below it, the report states.
Against the national median, though, Framingham looks pricier. The town's typical apartment listed 26% above the national median, with one-bedrooms 46% above and two-bedrooms 52% above national figures, according to the same MetroWest Daily News analysis. The data is part of a Zumper rental index that the article says aggregates over one million active listings posted by brokers and landlords to Zumper's Landlord Platform and third-party listings from MLS providers.
Other Trackers Show a More Mixed Picture
Not every rental index tells the exact same story, and the differences underscore how these tools use different measures and methods. Zumper separately reports Framingham rent at $2,500 a month as of November, down 2.9% year over year, with the market following a downward trend since peaking at $2,825 a month back in April 2025.
RentCafe put Framingham's average apartment rent at $2,342 as of the end of October, a 0.96% decrease from the $2,365 average a year earlier. Meanwhile, Apartment List found Framingham's median rent actually rose 0.6% over the course of October, even as it remained down 1.5% over the past 12 months — and noted that both the statewide (0.8%) and national (0.1%) annual growth rates outpaced Framingham's.
Apartment List also placed Framingham's median rent 14.0% below the broader Boston metro-wide median of $2,233. Taken together, the various trackers agree that Framingham rents have softened compared to a year ago, even if they don't agree on the exact numbers or pace of the shift.
