Condo apartment rentals in Toronto more than doubled at the end of last year
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While new rules for Airbnbs were introduced in Toronto and swaths of people moved elsewhere amid lockdown and work-from-home orders, vacancy rates reached record highs and average rent prices plummeted over the course of 2020, rendering the notoriously pricey city a better place for tenants than it has been in some time.
Renting an apartment in Toronto became cheaper than in Vancouver for the first time in years, and even more affordable than in other parts of the GTA, with some landlords going as far as offering special incentives to make the deals all the more sweet.
Toronto condo renters, buyers landed negotiating power as Q4 prices dropped: TRREB
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by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Jan 27, 2021 at 10:10 am ADT
TORONTO The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says condominium apartment sales and rentals in the region surged in the fourth quarter, while average selling and rental prices fell.
The board says there were 6,469 condominium apartment sales in the final three months of 2020, up 20.7 per cent from 5,358 sales in the same quarter a year earlier.
The number of new condo listings increased 92 per cent to 12,298, from 6,407 new listings in the fourth quarter of 2019. The number of active listings more than doubled to 4,294.
The average selling price for condos fell 1.1 per cent to reach $610,044 in the quarter, down from $616,771 a year earlier. Average selling prices in the city of Toronto decreased 2.4 per cent to $644,516.