AJ Murray Legal Services Professional CorporationOttawa, ON · February 1, 2026Ottawa’s Rent Reduction Confusion: What Landlords Need to Know
Recently, many Ottawa tenants opened their mail to an unexpected message: according to the City of Ottawa, their rent was supposed to go down. Specifically, some tenants living in apartment buildings with seven or more units that were built before 2001 were told that their landlords would be paying lower property taxes as of January 1 and that this reduction should be passed on to them in the form of lower rent. For landlords, this created an immediate problem. Many had not adjusted rents,...
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