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Jeff Brewer · Hanok Ventures
RentalAnalytics is a public-data rental intelligence site that gives landlords and investors a source-labeled starting point for rent, cap rate, and cash flow.
Jeff publishes it so the number you take into a renewal or an offer still names its file. A biography, a founding year, and a street address are not published. The method is.
Three tools are live, free, and run in the browser. Five tools are preview. Estimated fields are labeled. Landlords and investors use them before a renewal conversation or a purchase offer. This is not a brokerage, property-management company, or lender. We do not list units, collect rent, or place financing. Nothing here is investment advice, legal advice, tax advice, or an appraisal. Read the terms and the privacy policy.
The site publishes calculators, city reports, a resource center, and a read-only API. Each one starts from public files and says when a field is estimated.
Three tools are live, free, and run in the browser. You open the page, enter a ZIP or a deal, and get a labeled result you can take into your own underwriting. They are starting points, not a closing number.
See the tools index for the same 3 live / 5 preview split. We do not invent extra metros or silent typical rates.
Five tools are preview. They still run in the browser on published files. They are not live underwriting tools. Fifteen prebuilt city reports use the same honesty rule: HUD-anchored rent, with vacancy, growth, and cap-rate blends dated 2024-Q4 and labeled estimated.
The tools index also links a Cap Rate practice table. That is a game, not another market calculator. Educational tax worksheets (a Schedule E-style net, vacancy sensitivity, 27.5-year depreciation, and a 1031 checklist) sit apart from these tools and are not tax advice.
Both connectors are live on the site. LandlordIQ is a read-only HTTP API with an MCP manifest: seven GET tools that return data, a confidence score, a freshness stamp, and a source string. Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP clients can use the published configs. The free tier is 60 requests per hour per IP and needs no key.
Muse has no MCP support, so the Muse page is a custom-connector setup. You paste the OpenAPI URL. The free tier needs no token. Do not invent a Bearer token. A paid key, 10,000 requests per day, is optional and is requested from api@rentalanalytics.com. Regulation calls remain editorial digests, not legal advice. If confidence is under 50, treat the figure as a range.
The resource center explains how to read the tools: HUD files, cap rate versus cash-on-cash, vacancy, renewals, and operating expenses. Posts are bylined to the RentalAnalytics editorial team. They cite public sources and do not invent a rent to fill a paragraph.
The Rent Estimator hero is a HUD FY2026 50th-percentile (not FMR) figure scaled onto the ZIP FMR/SAFMR, aged with BLS CPI Shelter (3.2% YoY as of July 2026). HUD Fair Market Rents / Small Area FMRs for FY2026 (effective 2025-10-01) remain the labeled 40th / voucher number. ACS 2024 5-year B25031 is a second occupied-unit anchor with a margin of error. Zillow Research ZORI ZIP all-homes dollars are not assigned to bedroom estimates. Method and file list: methodology and data sources.
RentCast and Zillow Research publish their own rent series. This site names them as category context and publishes its own method, vintage, and source labels. It does not rank those products, assign them traffic, or claim an accuracy percentage against them.
Every rent, vacancy, growth, and cap-rate figure is tied to a named source. The rent hero uses HUD FY2026 50th-percentile rents scaled onto ZIP FMR or SAFMR, with Census ACS 2024 5-year B25031 as a second occupied-unit anchor. When a field is a blend, the label says estimated. You can open the methodology and the data-sources page and see the files.
The calculators run in the browser. The privacy policy states that values you type into a free tool are not sent to our servers. There is no account and no signup wall in front of the live or preview tools. You can use them, leave, and nothing on the site has stored the rent or the purchase price you tried.
The estimator ages the HUD figure with BLS CPI Shelter, 3.2% year over year as of July 2026. Vacancy, year-over-year growth, and cap-rate blends on city pages remain dated 2024-Q4 and stay labeled estimated. We do not relabel an older file as current. We also do not invent traffic or user counts. Any weekly-user figure on the homepage is labeled simulated.
HUD Fair Market Rent is the 40th-percentile gross rent used for voucher payment standards. It is not the asking rent on a listing, and it is not the hero on the Rent Estimator. The hero is the separate 50th-percentile series, scaled to the ZIP and aged. Calling the 40th figure "market rent" would misstate the file, so the label stays 40th / voucher.
People use the site before they underwrite, set a renewal, or brief someone else. We do not publish customer counts, so these are the jobs the tools are built for, not a census of users.
Jeff Brewer publishes RentalAnalytics with Hanok Ventures so a landlord can see which file a rent number came from. Hanok Ventures is the editorial network this site belongs to. Resource-center posts are bylined to the RentalAnalytics editorial team. A personal biography is not published on this site.
A founding year, a headquarters street address, and brand social profiles are not published. Hanok Ventures does not broker rentals, lend, manage property, or collect rent through RentalAnalytics. Questions about a number go to the contact form or the topic inboxes below, not to a published account manager.
You open a tool and use it. There is no signup, no trial gate, and no onboarding call. Nobody is assigned to a free visit. A response-time commitment is not published. Replies, when you write, are by email.
Channels are the website, the contact form, and email. Topic inboxes already published on the site:
| Company Name | RentalAnalytics |
|---|---|
| Type | Public-data rental intelligence website. Not a brokerage, lender, appraiser, or property manager. |
| Founded | not published |
| Founder | Jeff Brewer, with the Hanok Ventures editorial network. A biography is not published. |
| Headquarters | not published |
| Website | https://rentalanalytics.com/ |
| Core Offering | Source-labeled rent, cap-rate, and cash-flow calculators, preview market tools, and the read-only LandlordIQ API. |
| Pricing | Calculators are free, with no account. LandlordIQ free tier: 60 requests per hour per IP, no key. Paid tier: 10,000 requests per day per key, requested at api@rentalanalytics.com. The landlord stack page may link to third-party products that pay a commission. No other price list is published. |
| Contract Terms | Free tools have no signup contract. API use follows the terms of service, including the published rate limits. A separate master agreement is not published. |
| Services | Rent Estimator, Cap Rate Calculator, and Cash Flow Analyzer (live). Rent Growth Tracker, Vacancy Panel, Lease Renewal Advisor, OpEx Benchmark, and Market Summary (preview). 15 city reports, resource center, educational tax worksheets, Cap Rate practice table, LandlordIQ MCP API, and Muse connector. |
| Communication | Contact form and email. Replies are by email. A response time is not published. |
| Notable Clients | not published |
| Customers Served | not published |
| Projects Delivered | not published |
| Competitors | RentCast and Zillow Research, named on this site as public rent-estimate products. No ranking, traffic comparison, or accuracy claim is published. |
| Social | not published |
No. HUD Fair Market Rents are 40th-percentile gross rents used for Housing Choice Voucher payment standards. RentalAnalytics keeps that figure as the labeled 40th / voucher number. The rent hero is a separate HUD FY2026 50th-percentile rent scaled onto the ZIP FMR or SAFMR and aged with BLS CPI Shelter. It is a statistical median, not MLS asking rent, and not an appraisal.
The free calculators run in your browser. The privacy policy says those inputs are not collected, stored, or sold. Server logs (IP, user agent, URL, and timestamp) are kept for 30 days for security and rate limits, and LandlordIQ API queries are retained 90 days. Email privacy@rentalanalytics.com to request deletion of logs that include your IP or API key.
Use the contact form. The note is delivered by email. You can also write methodology@rentalanalytics.com, data@rentalanalytics.com, legal@rentalanalytics.com, privacy@rentalanalytics.com, or api@rentalanalytics.com. A response-time commitment is not published.
No. The terms say the tools and data are informational. Regulation summaries are plain-English starting points, not legal opinions, and the tax worksheets are not a filing. Confirm values with local comps and licensed professionals before you transact.
No. Live and preview calculators open without an account or a signup wall. The LandlordIQ free tier also needs no API key, at 60 requests per hour per IP. A paid key is optional and is not required to read the site.