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Rent premium for new tenants, October 2025: Canadian provinces ranked

Measure: Rent premium for new tenants, October 2025 (%, derived). All 10 provinces and territories with data in Rents for new tenants versus sitting tenants by province, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: October 2025.

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Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Rental Market Survey, October 2025. This information is reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of CMHC (CMHC licence for the use of data).
Data last updated
2026-11-11
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National value: 16.8 (Canada).

British Columbia: 18.2Alberta: 0.2Saskatchewan: 5.4Manitoba: 4.9Ontario: 19.1Quebec: 17.6New Brunswick: 14.3Yukon: not in this tableNunavut: not in this tableNewfoundland and Labrador: 20.6Nova Scotia: 16.3Northwest Territories: not in this tablePrince Edward Island: 18.5
  • Lowest: 0.2 to 5.4 %
  • Group 2: 5.4 to 16.3 %
  • Group 3: 16.3 to 18.2 %
  • Group 4: 18.2 to 19.1 %
  • Highest: 19.1 to 20.6 %
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Purpose-built apartments in centres of 10,000+; estimates CMHC rates as poor quality are blank.

1Newfoundland and Labrador20.6
2Ontario19.1
3Prince Edward Island18.5
4British Columbia18.2
5Quebec17.6
6Nova Scotia16.3
7New Brunswick14.3
8Saskatchewan5.4
9Manitoba4.9
10Alberta0.2

Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey 2025, Canada data tables (rmr-canada-2025-en.xlsx), Table 6.0: Average rent for turnover and non-turnover units, privately initiated apartment structures of three units and over. Reference period: October 2025.

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Canadian provinces and territories ranked by rent premium for new tenants, October 2025 (%, derived) (October 2025). Data: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey 2025, Canada data tables, Table 6.0; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/ca-provinces-by-rent-premium-for-new-tenants-october-2025/

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