On January 21, 2025, the Tribunal administratif du logement announced the percentages applicable to the calculation of rent adjustments for the year 2025.

These percentages are determined in accordance with the Regulation respecting the criteria for setting rent and take into account the actual expenses incurred for the building or dwelling concerned.

The components of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Quebec as a whole were used to determine the applicable percentages. Here are the main percentages for 2025:

Gas: -5.8%

Fuel oil and other energy sources: -2.9%

Maintenance fee: 6.9%

Building service fees: 4.5%

Fees for services related to the tenants' own person (private seniors' residence): 5.9%

Management fee: 8.2%

Net income: 6.9%

Capital expenditures: 4.7%

These percentages are used to determine the amounts allocated to each of the components of the calculation based on actual expenditures incurred for the building or dwelling concerned.    

It is important to note that these percentages are not average estimates of increases, but indicators for the calculation of adjustments.

Right of Refusal

In Quebec, landlords and tenants are free to agree on a rent increase that everyone considers satisfactory.

The tenant also has the right to refuse the rent increase submitted by the landlord. If the two parties cannot agree on an increase in the rent (or any other change to the lease), the landlord must, within one month of the tenant's refusal response, apply to the Tribunal to make an application to change the lease.  

The Minister of Housing presented a draft regulation aimed at revising the rent fixing grid, a central tool that had not been modified in 40 years. 

This revision, proposed for 2026, adjusts the calculation of net income to take into account the Consumer Price Index (CPI) with a 3-year moving average. 

This approach will allow for greater predictability — a significant step forward in an uncertain economic environment.  

The draft regulation in its current version revises the depreciation periods for major works to set it at 5% per year, i.e. a payback period of a maximum of 20 years, making it possible to no longer be dependent on the random periods of previous years. 

 Tribunal administratif du logement