Financing a Scarborough rental property

Scarborough (TRREB districts E04–E11) average selling price, TRREB Market Watch put the Scarborough average at <strong>$778,289</strong> for August 2026. For an investment property mortgage that makes the 20% down about <strong>$155,658</strong> (the 20% this product usually needs). The same board counted 326 Scarborough sales in August 2026. Your own property and balance replace these numbers on the file.

On each market's own cited figure, the 20% down is $155,658 in Scarborough against Etobicoke $209,959 (average $1,049,793); North York $202,265 (average $1,011,327); East York $231,879 (average $1,159,397). The comparison is the same arithmetic on a different price, which is why moving the search one municipality over changes the file before it changes the rate — lenders price the same product the same way across Ontario.

About <strong>$24,082</strong> at the average, of which $12,041 is the municipal tax. It is paid in cash on closing (or, in Quebec, billed by the municipality afterwards) and cannot be added to the mortgage. An eligible first-time buyer recovers about $8,475 of it through the Ontario relief that applies here. Our <a href="/land-transfer-tax-calculator">land transfer tax calculator</a> runs your own price.

Scarborough's average price is approximately $778,289, so the typical investment property file we see here sits in the $661,546–$895,032 band. Your specific neighbourhood and property type can move that materially.

On Scarborough's $778,289 average price, a representative investment property file at minimum down works out to about $155,658 down and roughly $3,209/mo (principal + interest at 4.69% over a 30-year amortization), plus about $24,082 in Ontario + Toronto land transfer tax. Your exact numbers depend on the property and your file — we run them precisely before you commit.

A local broker knows Toronto's property types and which of our 100+ lenders price investment property files best in Scarborough — from Agincourt and Malvern condos to detached stock — and there's no fee to you on A-lender files. The regional lenders on that panel are listed under the neighbourhood table above.

It depends entirely on what you are buying it for, and the test is one number rather than an opinion. At the $778,289 average price a single-unit rental here carries $3,858 a month in principal, interest and property tax with $155,658 down — so the question is simply whether a comparable property in Scarborough leases above that, and above $4,244 if you want a debt-service lender interested. Rents that clear the first figure but not the second describe an appreciation-and-paydown investment rather than a cash-flow one, which is a legitimate thing to buy as long as you know that is what you bought. We will not quote you a market rent we cannot source; bring three confirmed leases and we will run the file against them.

Yes, and how much it helps depends on a lender convention almost nobody shows you. There are three: 50% of the rent netted against the property's carrying cost, 80% of the rent added to your gross income, or 100% netted against carrying cost. On this property at the $3,858 break-even rent, tested at the 6.69% qualifying rate, the household income required ranges from $28,000 to $110,000 across those three methods on identical facts. Matching your file to the right method moves more than any rate discount on offer.

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