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Did the FARE Act cause Saskatoon rents to rise?

No, because the FARE Act belongs to a different rental market's policy fight with no counterpart in Saskatchewan: a landlord-paid broker fee charged to the tenant was never standard practice here, so there is no comparable rule change in Saskatoon for rents to react to.

What actually moves Saskatoon rents is the balance between population growth and purpose-built rental supply, tracked through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey, not a fee policy imported from somewhere else's rental market.

If rents are moving here, the more useful question is whether that changes your own math on holding a rental property versus selling it, especially with the benchmark home price at $444,700 and months of supply at 1.63 shaping what a sale would actually net you.

A policy debate happening in another city's rental market is not the lever that decides what your Saskatoon property is worth. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

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