Dallas-Fort Worth’s March inflation rate of 5.8% moved in the right direction and is well below its peak of 9.4% set in July, but local prices are still...
Regardless, food inflation in the protein category and fruits and vegetables, which increased 1.7% from a year ago and declined 1.2% from January, “are much more normal and what we would like to see,” Percival said.Overall food and beverage prices in D-FW increased by 8.5% in March.
But rents continue to climb, up 11.1% year over year. It’s going to take a while for rents to show a decline because leases are entered into monthly and some tenants are seeing higher prices for the first time this spring. March’s 5.8% increase in the cost of living in D-FW was the fourth consecutive two-month period where prices increased at a lower rate, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Southwest region office.
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