Rental housing is an important component of the overall housing sector.   The CMHC Rental Market Survey is important for CFAA members as it provides up to date, accurate, and comprehensive information on rental markets across Canada.  

CFAA encourages owners and property managers to provide essential data to CMHC survey enumerators when they contact you.  All survey data gathered is strictly confidential and CMHC does not disclose building specific information to third parties.  CFAA has been successful in working with CMHC to ensure key data of interest is collected, including availability rates, vacancy rates and average rents. 

 Benefits 

How does the Rental Market Survey benefit you?  Comprehensive rental market data can help your business operations run more efficiently and cost-effectively. The survey provides key intelligence on the rental market, which supports decision-making. For example, you can monitor and compare trends in availability and vacancy rates in your local market or compare different markets across Canada. In addition, the survey results are available in various levels of detail, including size of building and number of bedrooms.  

CMHC’s Rental Market Survey reports will be available in December 2008. You can sign up for convenient FREE subscriptions to the survey reports, with PDF versions e-mailed directly to you on the day of release. Alternatively, you can download electronic reports on the day of release.  Visit CMHC’s Order Desk at:

https://www03.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/b2c/b2c/init.do?language=en and select Housing Market Information on the left menu to subscribe to or access any of our publications.

If you or your members need more information about the CMHC Rental Market Survey, please contact:

Pierre A. Lanciault, National Manager

Housing Market Surveys (CMHC)

Phone: 613-748-2356

E-mail: planciau@cmhc-schl.gc.ca