Residential rents are expected to average $40 a square foot a year.

The rise in residential rents was the principal reason in this instance.

Since 1970 the city has considered itself in "a housing emergency" and has had residential rent control.

Residential rents would start around $450 for a studio and commercial space would be about $15 a square foot.

In the next twelve months, luxury residential rents are projected to drop between six and 10 per cent.

Since the referendum, residential rents have risen substantially, as has investor interest in Cambridge.

That's the detrimental side of residential rent control.

"Office rents have moved quickly to close the huge gap that existed with residential rents."

Supermarket and restaurant food, residential rent and health care have all become more expensive in each of the last three months, according to government statistics.

Mr. Lander's solution is to make sure that residential rents remain affordable.

Over all, residential rents rose 1 percent, but renters' total costs, including utilities, increased by 2.5 percent.

It has hastened the gentrification of the neighborhood, she said, where residential rents have increased steeply over the last decade.

Residential rents climbed 1.1 percent.

A recent residential rent increase, sanctioned by the federal agency that controls the property, paid for much-needed roof and sidewalk replacement.

The May rise includes a 1.3 percent increase in homeowner costs and a 1 percent increase in residential rents.

"As you survey the land, you don't find many places that have the residential rent controls that New York has," he said.

But these cost-of-living listings are heavily influenced by residential rents and have little to do with the cost of a meal in a noodle shop.

Declines in the costs of clothing, fruits, vegetables and natural gas offset increases for meat, gasoline, electricity and residential rents.

It attributed the understatement to a recently discovered error in software used to calculate the index's residential rent component and a gauge for home ownership.

Food purchased in markets, drugs, medical care, residential rent and educational costs are not taxed under the Goods and Services Tax.

Residential rents in RAK are about a quarter of those in Dubai.

Residential rents climbed three-tenths of 1 percent, while the sub-index of fuels and other utilities turned back up, rising five-tenths.

Some Exemptions Basic groceries, residential rents, health and education expenses and some other necessities are exempt.

In the New York region, residential rents rose eight-tenths of 1 percent in July, the largest increase in more than five years.

Her legal arguments involve issues such as "applicable base dates" for rent determinations and the appropriateness of using commercial rents in determining residential rents.