Rental choices grow, as do prices

As the real estate market cooled, developers shifted their attention to rental projects.

But as housing costs in Annapolis still remain near all-time highs, rental rates are following suit.

Still, renters are setting move-in dates in a city quickly becoming one of the priciest and most amenity-rich rental markets in the country.

They won't be available until 2009, but tenants of the luxury high-rise apartments coming to the massive Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole complex will be able to stretch out at a yoga center, take a swim in the rooftop pool or stroll across a bridge to Whole Foods and Target - for about $2,000 a...