Need More Room? Moving From Dallas to a Larger Apartment Will Cost You

Maybe that apartment kitchen table isn’t cutting it for the home office. Maybe the cat strolls over the keyboard during a key part of a Zoom call.

You need room to make work-from-home work.

In a recent study, RENTCafé churned the numbers, using a proprietary formula to calculate the cost of upsizing an apartment to an extra bedroom, regardless of the apartment size that a renter is renting from. RENTCafé’s study found that 35 percent of renters want to upsize their apartments whether for home-office space or just more room for the family.

According to RENTCafé, apartment-dwellers in Dallas would have to pay an extra $296, or $3,552 a year, for another bedroom. That’s still less than the national average of $330 per month.

Moving would be another option. Going from Dallas to another city in the Dallas/Fort Worth market is an additional cost proposition, but it could be worth it if it means a reprieve from commuting.

RENTCafé’s found two options where it’s cheaper to upgrade apartment size. Moving to Lancaster for an extra bedroom means you’d pay $99 less on monthly rent, saving $1,188 a year. Mesquite also would be a savings. Moving to a larger apartment in Mesquite would be $44 cheaper than the current monthly Dallas rent.

Moving to Fort Worth would cost an additional $157 each month. As you’d expect, moving to Frisco from Dallas is going to be costly, an additional $588 more each month and $7,056 more yearly.

Moving to Frisco isn’t Manhattan costly. To move to a larger New York City apartment, it’ll cost you 43 percent more each month.

RENTCafé’s report contains data collected from a survey of 20,149 respondents between May 21-31 on rentcafe.com. RENTCafé presumed the survey respondents to be predominantly apartment-seekers. As part of its study, RENTCafé also developed a calculator to see how much it costs to upgrade to another city.

Cost to upgrade by a bedroom if you move from Dallas: