It now costs more than $2,300 per month to rent the average Toronto apartment
While Toronto’s housing marketplace is displaying some early symptoms of cooling off — if not when it will come to costs, then at minimum when it comes to action — the identical cannot be mentioned for the region’s rental marketplace, which is basically only anticipated to get even worse, authorities say.
In accordance to the latest Toronto GTA Rent Report from Bullpen Exploration & Consulting and TorontoRentals.com, month-to-month rents in and about the metropolis continue on to increase at a speedy pace, hitting a new large of a whopping $2,325 downtown, on normal — 16 per cent larger than April 2021.
Regular rents across the GTA in April, from Bullpen Exploration & Consulting and TorontoRentals.com‘s latest Toronto GTA Rent Report.
The expense of dwelling in a apartment apartment is spiking the toughest, with these models in the GTA costing 26 per cent far more this past April than they did the exact same time very last yr, at an normal of $2,509.
Specified rental flats and solitary-loved ones households also saw 12 months-about-year price expansion from past April — a time that the companies say “the common every month rental price adjusted training course” immediately after pandemic lull —though not as considerably as condos.
And, total, there is nonetheless month-over-month improves occurring as properly, with the ordinary month-to-month rent for the overall GTA now sitting at $2,204.

Hire price ranges and charges-for each-square-foot are all on the rise just after pandemic lows. Chart from Bullpen Exploration & Consulting and TorontoRentals.com‘s April 2022 Toronto GTA Lease Report.
But, it has been much steeper in some locales than some others: Richmond Hill’s average lease is up a whopping 26 per cent each year (to $2,129), when Markham’s is really fractionally down (by 5.2 per cent, to $1,795).
Meanwhile, Toronto suitable, Etobicoke, Mississauga, York, East York, Vaughan and Scarborough rents are also all on the up, albeit not as substantially.
The selling price hikes have been much additional important in some areas of the location than other individuals, and are only predicted to get worse. Chart from Bullpen Investigate & Consulting and TorontoRentals.com‘s April 2022 Toronto GTA Lease Report.
When Toronto had the maximum price ranges for all condominium dimensions, it was much more easterly cities that experienced the lowest: $1,364 for a one particular-bedroom in Whitby (vs. $2,065 in Toronto), and $1,862 for a two-bedroom or $2,291 for a 3-bed room in Oshawa (vs. $2,849 or $3,347 in Toronto).
It would seem there is elevated fascination specifically in two-bed room models, which have consistently observed major value jumps just about every month this calendar year as opposed to very last.
Two-bed room models in unique have witnessed huge and consistent jumps in typical price tag so significantly this calendar year. Chart from Bullpen Investigate & Consulting and TorontoRentals.com‘s April 2022 Toronto GTA Rent Report.
Also exciting is the truth that the median unit dimension for apartments built so significantly this yr and mentioned on TorontoRentals.com is smaller than the dimension of models designed in any other calendar year at just 596 square toes (in contrast to 979 square toes in 1998) — so they are not only having additional expensive, but lesser, far too.
“Following many consecutive months of monthly raises past 12 months, average hire flattened out in the GTA, but decreased curiosity rates could have tipped the scales, pushing would-be purchasers back again into the rental market place, or merely prevented them from leaving it,” the industry experts take note in their report.
“If the ownership marketplace carries on to soften, expect rents to decide up, especially downtown and in transit-welcoming neighbourhoods.”