Apartments for Rent in Toronto, ON

Toronto has more purpose-built rental apartments than any other Canadian city, and most of what is listed here is exactly that: units in managed buildings rather than individual condos. That matters if you are comparing against Kijiji or Facebook. A managed building has a superintendent, a leasing office, a standard Ontario lease, and rent that is set by the owner instead of an investor's mortgage payment. It usually also means a longer waiting list for the cheapest units.

The listings on GottaRent right now cover the whole city. Downtown east has Church Street, Berkeley Street, Wellesley Street East and the Sherbourne towers in St. James Town. Midtown has Oriole Road at Yonge and St. Clair. North of the 401 there is Beecroft Road and Carluke Crescent near Yonge and Sheppard, Bathurst and Steeles, and the largest single group of units at 15 Vena Way and 5 Zappacosta Drive near Finch and Weston Road. The west end has Weston Road and Jane Street, and the east has Crescent Place, Eccleston Drive and Eastwood Road out toward the Beaches. Roughly 40% of the units are one-bedrooms, a third are two-bedrooms, and there are about 20 bachelors and 15 three-bedrooms at any given time.

Prices track distance from the subway more than anything else. The same one-bedroom floor plan is about $300 a month cheaper at Finch and Weston than at Yonge and Sheppard, and $500 cheaper than at Church and Wellesley. If your budget is under $2,000, start with the listings under $2,000 and with the neighbouring districts, which are separate pages here: North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke all have the same kind of buildings at lower rents, and all three are inside the city limits with TTC service.