The Régie du logement publishes its indices of rent increase

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Friday, 26 January, 2018 18:25

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Friday, 26 January, 2018 18:31

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The Régie du logement du Québec (RLQ) published Friday its indices of rent increase for the year 2018, what she had delayed to 2017.

The rate adjustment means is set this year to 0.5% for a dwelling which is not heated, 0.5 %, a home heated with electricity, to 0.7 %, a home heated by gas and 1.9% for a dwelling heated by oil.

These indices do not take into account other increases, such as those related to taxes or major repairs.

As it does annually, the RLQ has also published on its web site a calculation tool of the increased rents will allow tenants and owners to “negotiate a rent increase is fair and reasonable,” according to the RLQ.

Reassured

The Grouping of committees, housing and tenant associations of Quebec (RCLALQ) says he is reassured by the publication of the indices, this year.

“Last year, the housing authority had unilaterally decided to discontinue their publication, which had given a result of significant mobilisation of the RCLALQ to demand their return, something obtained three weeks later,” said the agency, by issuing a press release.

For its part, the Corporation of the real estate owners of Quebec (CORPIQ) considers that “the indicator of variation of rent that is required to use the Régie du logement to make its calculations” is “two times lower than the reality of the market”.

It even recommends in the owners ignore the worksheet proposed by the RLQ and use the one available on its own web site.

“For at least two decades, the Quebec government provides the housing authority of the statistics wrong”, a summary of the CORPIQ.