Francis, SQRFT Team
Canadian rental market analyst covering Alberta and every other province. I track CMHC, Rentals.ca, Zumper, and Statistics Canada monthly and write the city guides, rent reports, and long-form answers you find across SQRFT.
About this byline
Francis is a transparent editorial byline for the SQRFT team. It represents the collective work of our Canadian rental market analysts, tenancy law reviewers, and editors. We use a consistent byline because it makes our content easier to find, easier to cite, and easier to hold accountable.
The convention is the same one many publications use, for example The New York Times attributing editorials to "The New York Times Editorial Board" or The Economist publishing articles without individual bylines. The work is human, edited by humans, and reviewed by people on the SQRFT team before it is published.
If you spot an error in one of our pages, please tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it, then note the correction on the page.
What Francis covers
Monthly rent reports
CMHC, Rentals.ca, Zumper, Statistics Canada CPI shelter component
City and neighborhood guides
Alberta, BC, Ontario, Quebec, and every other province as SQRFT expands
Tenancy law explainers
Provincial RTAs, RTDRS, LTB, RTB, TAL processes and precedents
Rental investing and cost math
Cap rates, cash flow, property management economics, self-manage vs PM decisions
How we source our data
- Rental prices: CMHC Rental Market Survey data tables, Rentals.ca monthly National Rent Report, Zumper city-level rent research.
- Vacancy: CMHC purpose-built vacancy surveys, published each October.
- Cost of living: Statistics Canada CPI shelter component, city-level breakdowns where available.
- Tenancy law: provincial RTA statutes, published tribunal decisions (RTDRS, LTB, RTB, TAL, Manitoba RTB, NS RTP).
- Local context: municipal open data, school board catalogs, university enrollment reports, tourism board calendars, Environment Canada climate normals.
If we cannot find a reliable public source for a claim, we do not publish the claim. Silence beats a made-up number.
Contact
Editorial questions, corrections, source suggestions, and story ideas welcome.
[email protected]