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Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple
We're talking about renting out condo units.
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Yes but the existence of condo rentals are not within a vacuum. If I have 100 units available for $5 each, and you take 40 of them off the market for rental units, there are 60 units left making them rarer. If there were 100 buyers before, they'd all have paid $5, now they will fight for them, raising the value to maybe $10 or $15. This means new units built now sell for $15 and for an investor to make money on their rental they need to raise the rent price to reflect that. It's a push and tug between private rental units and private ownership. It's simple supply and demand.
The quick sale of KiWi, Jarvis and Platinum shows there is high demand in Hamilton, but low supply, and the same can be said for rental units, which have continued to increase in price as a result of low vacancy rates.
The tl;dr being that increases in housing prices cause higher rents, and purchasing of rental units causes higher housing prices, which in turn cause higher rents, and the cycle continues.