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Why did Saskatoon rents just hit an all-time high?

We do not have a verified current rent figure to confirm that claim, unlike the home benchmark price, which the Saskatchewan REALTORS Association updates monthly, but the mechanism behind rising Saskatoon rents is straightforward: population growth outpacing new purpose-built rental supply pushes vacancy down and asking rents up.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's annual Rental Market Survey is the actual source for vacancy and rent trend data in Saskatoon, and it is worth checking directly rather than accepting a headline number, since survey timing and neighbourhood mix can make one year's figure look more dramatic than the underlying trend.

What is true regardless of the exact figure is that a tighter rental market changes the math for anyone deciding whether to keep a property as a rental or sell it, especially with the benchmark home price at $444,700 and months of supply at 1.63.

If rising rent costs are part of why you are thinking about selling instead of renting out a property, that decision starts with a real number on the house itself. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

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