Rents dip in some areas.

Bay Area rent trends are religiously tracked by a host of analysts. Most say the market is generally softening, though others lately have noticed an uptick on a month-to-month basis.

So factor this into the discussion: A 2017 Mid-Year Rent Trends Report from Abodo, an apartment listings website, has rents tailing off slightly in San Francisco (down 1.2 percent) and San Jose (down 1.8 percent), while increasing a tad in Oakland (up 0.5 percent). For each market, Abodo has averaged the median rents for one-bedroom apartments across the first six months of 2017.

Don’t get too excited, though. According to Abodo, San Francisco remains the costliest market in the country, with one-bedroom flats typically renting for $3,240. San Jose is the nation’s third most expensive market (the median rent is $2,378 for a one-bedroom), while Oakland ranks seventh ($2,025).

Massachusetts has the highest mid-year median of the 50 states: $1,896 for a one-bedroom flat. California comes next ($1,630), followed by Hawaii ($1,572) and New York ($1,571).

And what about the nation as a whole?

“Over the first half of 2017,” the report states, “the national median rent fluctuated, but it ended up exactly where it began: $1,016 for a onebedroom. Prices fell from January to March, bottoming out at $1,003 before creeping back up in the spring. In all, the national median rent always stayed within 1.3% of its starting value.”

And in which markets have rents risen most rapidly?

New Orleans (where the median for a one-bedroom is $1,167) is up 6.3 percent, the most dramatic increase in the nation.

It’s followed by Glendale, Arizona ($764), up 4.7 percent; Houston, Texas ($1,053), up 3.8 percent; Seattle, Washington ($1,580), up 3.6 percent; and Reno, Nevada ($724), up 3.6 percent.