Short interest in Essex Property Trust Inc (NYSE:ESS) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 924.94K to 883.81K. This put 1.88% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Essex Property Trust gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Essex Property Trust's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 432.24K shares traded per day, it would take 2.04 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.