Seattle's rent, specifically, has risen an average of 8% year-over-year for the past 4 years now. (According to Zillow's rental data - https://www.zillow.com/downtown-seattle-seattle-wa/home-valu...).

And I strongly suspect these numbers are below real-world ones (they use Zillow-listing advertised price, which like most advertisements, are usually slightly lower than the actual price a real person would have to pay)

I’ve been told that supply “caught” up in 2017 when I moved into downtown Bellevue, so the market has been weak on apartments (indeed everyone was offering incentives). Anyways, as anecdotal, we aren’t paying more than 7% more for our third leasing period in 2019 as we were in our first leasing period in 2017.