Rent reports for work that supports renters
Governments, public agencies, unions and universities can ask about paid reports and research using grouped rent statistics.
The Ottawa rent report
A paid report on the rents that renters in the City of Ottawa reported to FairRent. Its page says what it contains, who may buy it, its price and whether it can be delivered today. A free sample of it will be published on its own page. None is published yet.
We say first whether a report can be produced at all, then its scope, sources, limits and price.
A report may help compare reported rents across areas or identify gaps in rental information. What we can provide depends on coverage, permissions and privacy.
We can discuss the scope of a one-time report or of recurring research. We will say first whether a report can be produced at all, and explain the scope, sources, limitations and price before any work begins.
What we sell and what we do not
Every project must follow our tenant protections:
- Checking your rent and reading our public neighbourhood pages will stay free.
- We never sell individual rent submissions.
- We may charge governments, public agencies, unions and universities for reports and analysis based on grouped rent statistics.
- We do not sell reports, data or private access to landlords, property managers or anyone acting for them.
- We do not allow our paid reports or data to be used for pricing rental homes, planning rent increases, screening tenants, identifying renters or targeting evictions.
- Paying FairRent cannot change a score or a finding.
What can be commissioned today
No rent report can be commissioned today. Our export tool refuses every export, and this is why: the licence for rent submissions from renters rests on the terms of use and has not yet been settled for paid use; no signed disclosure review covers this release. What we can do now is read your research question, say which groups in our data could answer it, and tell you what has to be settled before a report can be produced.
The questions this data can answer
- How reported rents for one type of home compare across the neighbourhoods of one city, as ranges.
- Which neighbourhoods and types of home have enough recent reports to say anything, and which do not.
- How reported rents compare with the CMHC and Statistics Canada city baselines, as ranges.
The groups covered today
The counts below are groups (one area and one type of home) that clear our publication rules, not renters or rent submissions. A paid report would cover fewer groups than shown.
A group is one area and one type of home in one city. A group is counted when its reports clear our publication rules, starting with the floor of 5 comparable reports from the last 2 years. The numbers below are counts of groups, not of renters or reports, which is why they are exact.
This table counts every public submission. A paid report could use only submissions made since September 2026, when our notice first named paid reports, so it would cover fewer groups than this table shows. A zero means no group in that city and type cleared the rules when the page was built, or that our database could not be read at that moment.
| City | Studio | 1 bedroom | 2 bedrooms | 3 bedrooms | 4 or more bedrooms | All types |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa | 3 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 46 |
| Toronto | 0 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 29 |
| Vancouver | 0 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 22 |
What a report would contain: 6 items
- Grouped figures by neighbourhood and type of home
- An evidence label and a banded count for each figure, never an exact count and never a figure drawn from fewer than 5 renter reports
- The method version each figure was produced under and the date the market sources were last reviewed
- A written section on what the figures cannot support
- The CMHC and Statistics Canada source notices on every figure
- The buyer conditions set out in the terms of use
What a report would not contain: 8 items
- An exact count. Counts are given as bands only: fewer than 5, 5 to 9, 10 to 19, 20 to 49, 50 or more.
- A series over time. These are current figures, not a trend.
- A count of households. Renters report their own rent. We check submissions for quality, but an accepted submission does not prove that a lease was verified or that it comes from a separate household.
- A building or an address. Neither is published.
- A rent to the dollar. Every range is rounded to $50.
- Submissions older than 2 years. Only the submissions inside that window go into a figure.
- A group matched on anything but the area and the number of bedrooms. A condo, a basement unit and a purpose-built apartment of the same size sit in the same group.
- Proof of accuracy. More comparable submissions can improve how much of an area is covered. Accuracy also depends on who reports their rent, how recent the submissions are and whether they come from different households. It also depends on whether the estimate has been checked against independent data. We have not yet done that check.
See a sample
The sample below is built from the same public figures as our neighbourhood pages. It is not a paid rent report.
- See the coverage sample, which shows which groups have data. It is built from the public neighbourhood figures, not from the Ottawa report.
How a report would be produced: 6 steps
- Write to samuel@fairrent.ca with your research question, the area and period, the intended use and your institution.
- We say which groups in our data could answer it, and whether a report can be produced at all.
- A written agreement under the terms of use passes on the CMHC and Statistics Canada conditions and our restrictions.
- A disclosure review is signed for that release.
- The figures are cut through our export tool, which refuses anything below our publication rules.
- The institution, the purpose, the information provided and the restrictions are listed on the transparency page.
Tell us your research question, the area and period you want to study, and how you plan to use the results.