Realtor’s viral TikTok reveals how ridiculous Toronto’s rental market really is

Though Toronto’s precise property market has positively been slowing drastically in newest weeks, the city stays most likely the most expensive areas to buy a home on the planet, and with rental towers eternally beneath improvement, now we have flip into notorious for our tiny, low- prime quality fashions at sky-high prices.

One Toronto realtor has highlighted this unfortunate improvement in a TikTok video that has understandably gone viral, as everybody is aware of the net merely likes to see a tour of overpriced metropolitan precise property.

Sean Mayers, who often posts about Toronto precise property data on his social media feeds, shared one new itemizing throughout the metropolis that he found to be significantly gorgeous.

“Trying to find a tiny and pricey shoebox in Toronto to call your particular person? You have bought come to the most effective place,” Mayers begins off his walk-through narration for the generic rental unit sooner than he hilariously reveals off the fashions choices, which depart a lot to be desired.

In his tongue-in-cheek description, the realtor boasts of a slim hallway “wonderful for exhibiting off your shoe assortment,” a kitchen counter that solely has room for dish cleansing cleaning soap and a microwave, and a rest room that is actually better than the minuscule mattress room — which solely matches a double mattress and has no closet.


“The hotel-style mini bar fridge is sweet for storing one meal at a time, and chances are you’ll love the easy bake oven, wonderful for cupcakes,” Mayers continues, poking fulfilling on the spot’s very hotel-sized services.

He moreover notes fascinating design attributes just like the dearth of an accurate wall in every the mattress room and bathroom, ostensibly a switch to make the world actually really feel greater and additional open-concept, and to produce some further light to the tiny closet of a sleeping quarters.

The kicker of the whole tour is the worth tag, in reality: $610,000 for the compact one-bedroom with no parking, locker or house for storing, one factor that really resonated with various Torontonians, apparently.

“Should be illegal to assemble these…” one particular person commented.

“Looks like residing in jail nevertheless you paid for it,” one different added.

Moreover, the very professional question, “Why do people nonetheless reside in Toronto?”

Another recognized that that you will need to make an outstanding $120,000 a yr to afford the unit, making it, like all precise property throughout the metropolis, out of the attain of most residents; and nonetheless one different added that of their metropolis, such a rental could be priced at about that rather a lot, or a lot much less: $100k-$120k, at most.

As humorous as a result of the video is — amassing better than 315,000 views, 29,000 likes and a whole lot of suggestions on TikTok and counting — most people from Toronto have undoubtedly seen worse gives on even smaller fashions.