{"id":561,"date":"2026-07-04T01:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arvcalc.com\/blog\/rent-projection-calculator\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:28:31","slug":"rent-projection-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arvcalc.com\/blog\/rent-projection-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent Projection Calculator: Forecast Rental Income (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A landlord buys a duplex in Columbus for $280,000, runs the numbers on today’s $1,450\/mo rent, and calls it a deal. Five years later, rents in that zip code have climbed 22% \u2014 but she never modeled it, so she sold too early, leaving roughly $40,000 in future income on the table. Using a rent projection calculator<\/strong> before you close changes what you see in the numbers \u2014 and what you decide to do with a property.<\/p>\n

What is a rent projection calculator?<\/strong> A rent projection calculator<\/strong> takes your current monthly rent, an expected annual growth rate, your planned holding period, and a vacancy assumption, then outputs year-by-year rental income, cumulative rent collected over the full hold, and an inflation-adjusted view of what that income is actually worth. National rent growth has averaged 2\u20134% annually<\/strong> over the past decade, but city-level results vary dramatically \u2014 from markets that lost ground to markets that nearly doubled. Running your own projection, specific to your market and property, is the only way to stress-test a deal against real-world outcomes.<\/p>\n

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