TORONTO, July 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Toronto Real Estate Board President Michael Collins announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS^® reported 9,749 condominium apartment rental transactions through TREB’s MLS^® System in the second quarter of 2019. This result was up by 14.9 per cent compared to Q2 2018.

The number of condominium apartments that were listed at some point during the second quarter of 2019 was also up on a year-over-year basis by 28.8 percent, nearly doubling the annual growth rate for rental transactions, suggesting that the rental market became better supplied over the past year.

“The GTA population continues to trend upward, as the region attracts people from around the world, both on a permanent and temporary basis, to take advantage of a diversity of employment opportunities.  Many of these new comers and existing GTA households choose to rent.  With this in mind, it makes sense that we continue to see strong year-over-year increases in the number of condominium apartments rented,” said Mr. Collins.

The average Q2 2019 one-bedroom condominium apartment rent for the GTA as a whole was $2,192, up 6.7 percent compared to Q2 2018. Over the same period, the average two-bedroom condominium apartment rent increased by 4.3 per cent to $2,873.

“While the rental market remains tight, renters do appear to be benefitting from more supply in the marketplace.  The pace of year-over-year average rent growth has slowed over the past year.  That being said, average condo rents continued to increase well-above the rate of inflation in the second quarter.  This suggests that new rental supply, in terms of both purpose-built rental units and investor-owned condominium apartments, is still required in the GTA to keep up with population growth and new household formation,” said Jason Mercer, TREB’s Chief Market Analyst.

Rental Market Summary: Second Quarter 2019
Apartments
	All Bedroom Types				Bachelor					One-Bedroom					Two-Bedroom					Three-Bedroom
	Listed		Leased		Leased		Avg. Rent			Leased		Avg. Rent			Leased		Avg. Rent			Leased		Avg. Rent
Q2 2019	15,337		9,749		412		$1,824			5,656		$2,192			3,412		$2,873			269		$3,586
Q2 2018	11,907		8,483		331		$1,716			4,875		$2,055			3,094		$2,755			183		$3,469
Yr./Yr. % Chg.	28.8%		14.9%		24.5%		6.3%			16.0%		6.7%			10.3%		4.3%			47.0%		3.4%
Townhouses
	All Bedroom Types				Bachelor					One-Bedroom					Two-Bedroom					Three-Bedroom
	Listed		Leased		Leased		Avg. Rent			Leased		Avg. Rent			Leased		Avg. Rent			Leased		Avg. Rent
Q2 2019	1,074		685		2		$1,845			66		$1,951			312		$2,451			305		$2,778
Q2 2018	983		664		3		$1,650			45		$1,907			287		$2,186			329		$2,455
Yr./Yr. % Chg.	9.3%		3.2%		-33.3%		11.8%			46.7%		2.3%			8.7%		12.1%			-7.3%		13.1%

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