With rising apartment rents far outpacing the rise in the prices of goods and services, investing in multi-family properties can serve as a hedge against inflation, industry experts say.

Apartment rents nationwide are an average 19 percent higher than they would be if they had grown only at the rate of inflation from 1999 to today, according to research by Grubb & Ellis Co., a real estate advisory firm.

In Denver, rents are 37.8 percent higher than inflation.

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