If you are looking for a rental in San Antonio this fall, or deciding what to ask for one you own, the useful numbers are not the national headlines. They are the homes listed for rent here, right now. We pull every rental on the San Antonio MLS each week, and at the end of September there were 4,883 of them across the city and the towns around it.
Here is what they say.
The headline numbers
- Median rent: $1,700 a month
- Median rent per square foot: $1.12
- Median time listed so far: 45 days
That last number needs a word of explanation. It is how long the rentals on the market today have been sitting, not how long it takes a typical rental to lease. A home that leased in a week is no longer in the count. Still, 45 days tells you something: a good share of what is listed has been waiting more than a month, and landlords with homes that have sat that long are usually open to a conversation.
What each size costs
Most of what is listed is a house, not an apartment. Of the 4,883 rentals, 3,337 are single-family homes, with duplexes (430), apartments (395), townhomes (263) and condos (229) making up most of the rest. Large apartment complexes mostly do not list on the MLS, so this is really a picture of the house-and-duplex rental market.
By bedrooms, the median asking rent is:
- 1 bedroom: $898 (386 listed, typically about 700 sq ft)
- 2 bedrooms: $1,295 (819 listed, about 1,040 sq ft)
- 3 bedrooms: $1,695 (2,367 listed, about 1,500 sq ft)
- 4 bedrooms: $2,100 (1,093 listed, about 2,180 sq ft)
- 5 or more: $2,550 (202 listed)
Three bedrooms is the heart of the market. Nearly half of everything listed is a three-bedroom home, which is good news for renters: it is the size with the most choice, and the most room to compare.
Where the rentals are, and what they cost
San Antonio itself accounts for 3,647 of the listings, at a median of $1,650. Around it, rents vary more than most people expect:
- New Braunfels: 324 listed, median $1,750
- Converse: 244 listed, median $1,697
- Schertz: 85 listed, median $1,995
- Cibolo: 84 listed, median $2,148
- Boerne: 70 listed, median $2,924
- Canyon Lake: 58 listed, median $1,765
- Universal City: 46 listed, median $1,650
- Helotes: 29 listed, median $2,600
Boerne and Helotes sit at the top, which fits what they are: Hill Country towns with larger homes and lots. Converse and Universal City are close to the city median and close to Randolph, which keeps a steady stream of military renters coming through. Schertz and Cibolo cost more than their neighbors partly because so much of their housing is newer construction.
If you are renting
The supply is in your favor this fall. With nearly five thousand homes listed and many of them waiting more than a month, you have room to compare and, on homes that have sat, room to ask. A few things that help:
- Look at days listed. A home that has been on the market for 60 days is a different negotiation from one listed yesterday.
- Compare by town, not just by price. A three-bedroom in Converse at the median runs about $100 a month less than one in San Antonio proper, and several hundred less than one in Schertz or Cibolo.
- Have your paperwork ready. The homes that are priced right still go quickly. Proof of income and your rental history, ready on the day, is how you get the good one.
You can see every rental listed now, with photos and maps, at rentals across San Antonio.
If you own a rental
The same numbers cut the other way. A median of 45 days on the market is long enough to cost real money: a $1,700 home sitting an extra month is $1,700 you do not get back. The homes that lease fastest are almost always the ones priced at the market on day one, rather than above it and reduced later, and the ones that are clean, repaired and photographed properly before they go live.
If you are not sure where your home sits, our rent estimate compares it with the rentals listed near it, by size and bedrooms, in a few seconds. And if you would rather not manage it yourself, that is what we do.
*Figures are from rentals listed on the San Antonio MLS at the end of September 2026. They are asking rents, not signed leases.*