Toronto Rent Prices Down 20% Since Last Year
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Last year at this time, real estate analysts were reporting an eight per cent year-over-year increase in average rent prices across the City of Toronto, causing tenants in rent-controlled pads to further tighten their grips on units that were perhaps too tiny, too cro
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Dec 16, 2020 4:30 AM
Last year at this time, real estate analysts were reporting an eight per cent year-over-year increase in average rent prices across the City of Toronto, causing tenants in rent-controlled pads to further tighten their grips on units that were perhaps too tiny, too crowded, and sometimes in dire need of repairs. The newly-published 2020 December National Rent Report from Rentals.ca and Bullpen Research & Consulting indicates that the global coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on Toronto's rental market (for landlords, at least) with another steep dip in average prices recorded last month. Toronto rents were down a staggering 20 per cent, year-over-year, in November of 2020 — quite the contrast against the aforementioned eight per cent increase we say in November of 2019. To put it even more starkly, you'd be saving an average of $520 per month if you rented a place in Toronto right now versus if you signed a lease last year at this time. 2020 has been the most unpredictable year of my nearly 20-year career as a housing analyst," said Bullpen Research & Consulting President Ben Myers when releasing the report. It is unlikely that even the most bearish market watcher would have predicted a 20 per cent annual decline in average rents in the former city of Toronto. We expect the market to continue trending downward for the next four to six months nationally but start a slow recovery in the second half of 2021. The rental market in Canada has done a 180-degree turn from extremely hot to extremely cold, with November 2019's average rent of $1,918 per month up 9.4 per cent annually, compared to this year's decline of 9.1 per cent. The national figures are heavily influenced by what is happening in the Greater Toronto Area, where rental rates for condominium apartments have plummeted year over year. Toronto remains the most-expensive of 35 major Canadian cities for one-bedroom rental units, with the November 2020 average coming in at $1,877. Two-bedroom units in Toronto are now going for an average of $2,468 per month. Tenants looking for properties in urban settings in Canada had more choices in 2020, and for the first time in many years, landlords had to compete for renters and ramp up their marketing efforts.
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