Transparency

How FairRent is funded and how reports are used

Renters come first. This page explains how FairRent can earn money without selling you out.

Our promise to renters

  • Renters come first.
  • 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.

Paid reports

These products contain combined figures and analysis. Buyers do not receive individual rent submissions or access to the raw submission database.

FairRent may earn a profit from this work.

Eligible buyers and eligible purposes

An eligible institution must also have an eligible purpose. Being a government, union or university does not make every proposed use acceptable.

Protecting renters

Before delivering a paid report, we will check whether the information may be used for that purpose and whether the figures could expose a renter.

A figure is withheld when fewer than 3 different rents sit behind it, and counts are shown as bands.

A minimum group size is one safeguard and it does not guarantee privacy on its own. So counts are published as bands rather than exact numbers. A figure is withheld when fewer than 3 different rents sit behind it, or when one rent makes up more than 60 per cent of them. It is also withheld when 50 per cent or more of the rents behind it are one amount sent on one day. When a total and the figures beside it would together let a reader work out an exact count, the total is published in a wider band instead.

A submission made before our notice named paid reports is not used in a paid report.

Each submission records which version of our notice it was made under. An export is refused outright when a submission does not record a version at all.

Buyers must agree to our restrictions on use and onward sharing.

A paid report that includes CMHC or Statistics Canada figures will carry the notices their licences require.

The buyer accepts the conditions of those licences as well as ours. The terms of use set them out.

Terms of use

Public information

Anyone can read our public pages, including a landlord. Landlords get no paid reports, private access or pricing tools from us.

Customers and projects

As of October 2026, no paid report has been sold, no customer or project is listed on our transparency page, and no organisation is named as a partner. We update this line when it changes.

Before a paid report or private access is provided, the institution, the purpose, what it receives and the restrictions will be listed here.

Who runs FairRent

FairRent Canada is a small independent project. You can reach us at samuel@fairrent.ca.

FairRent Canada is a small independent project. We have not yet published the name of the legal operator. When we do, it will appear here.

We have not yet published the name of the person accountable for personal information. When we do, it will appear here.

You can reach us at samuel@fairrent.ca. Privacy questions go to the same address, and a person reads them.

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Funding and data use | FairRent Canada