After biggest rent hike in decades, Quebec changing method to calculate it [Video]

As tenants across Quebec prepare to get hit with a substantial rent increase, the provincial government is making changes to the way those rent hikes will be calculated.

The changes to the calculation method were outlined Wednesday in Quebec’s Official Gazette (page 2368).

They come just a few months after Quebec’s rental tribunal, known in French as the Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL), recommended an average rent increase for 2025 of 5.9 per cent for tenants living in homes were heat is not included.

That’s Quebec’s largest year-to-year jump in at least three decades, according to TAL figures dating back to 1988.

That recommendation is still in effect for this year and the new calculation method will be used as of 2026. Had the new method been used for this year, the TAL’s average recommended rent increase would’ve been 4.5 per cent, according to a spokesperson for Quebec’s housing minister.

Each year, the TAL releases a set of calculations …