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Quick scenario · Sudbury
On a $496,588 Sudbury home
Down payment
20% — min for investment property mortgages
$99,318
Mortgage amount
At 4.69% · 30-yr amort
$397,270
ON LTT
Provincial closing cost
$6,407
Est. monthly payment
Principal + interest only
$2,047/mo
Investment property rate — uninsured. Default insurance is not available on a property you do not live in, so 4.69% carries a premium over an owner-occupied rate. Property tax at Ontario’s 1% average residential rate — municipal rates vary, so confirm yours adds $414/mo, so this property has to rent for $2,461/mo to break even before insurance, maintenance or vacancy.
Illustrative only. Actual rate, qualifying amount, and premium depend on your file. A licensed advisor will give you the exact number for your file.
Investment property mortgages in Sudbury — the local picture

Sudbury's average price was $496,588 in August 2026. A Sudbury rental at the $496,588 average price needs $99,318 down and carries $2,047/mo in principal and interest plus $414/mo in property tax at Ontario's 1% average residential rate — so it has to rent for $2,461 a month before insurance, maintenance or a single vacant week to break even. That figure, not a rent we found on a listing site, is the number to test a New Sudbury or South End property against: bring the actual rent on the actual unit, and the gap between it and $2,461 is the file. Clearing it by 10% — about $2,707 a month — is where a debt-service-coverage lender starts to look at the property rather than at you.

Sudbury board-area average residential price, Sudbury Real Estate Board (via CREA), August 2026. Source.

Written by the Mortgage Squad Advisors Editorial Team · Reviewed by Surrayya Afzal, Principal Broker, FSRA #M14001433 · Brokerage FSRA #13737 · Figures current to August 2026

All mortgages in Sudbury| Investment property mortgages guide| Rental cashflow calculator
Max LTV (1-4)
80%
Uninsured rental
MLI Select 5+
95%
With point-stack
Rental offset
100%
At specialty lenders
Amortization
30 yr
Uninsured / 50 yr MLI

Investment property mortgages: Sudbury against the markets around it

The same arithmetic (the 20% this product usually needs) on each market’s own published figure. Rates do not change across the boundary; the price does, and with it the file.

MarketPrice20% downvs Sudbury
Sudbury$496,588 average$99,318—
Thunder Bay$405,819 median$81,164−$18,154
North Bay$462,561 average$92,512−$6,806

Each figure is that market’s own board release, as cited on its page. Illustrative arithmetic, not a quote.

The rent this Sudbury property has to produce

The break-even row covers principal, interest and Sudbury property tax only.

Monthly rentGap vs carrying costGross yieldGRMDSCR
$2,461Break-even on principal, interest and property tax$0/mo5.95%16.8×1.00
$2,707Rent needed to clear a 1.10 debt service coverage ratio+$246/mo6.54%15.3×1.10
$3,076Rent needed to clear a 1.25 debt service coverage ratio+$615/mo7.43%13.5×1.25

Carrying cost is $2,047/mo principal and interest at 4.69% over 30 years on a $397,270 mortgage, plus $414/mo property tax. Rent rows are the property’s own requirement, not a market rent. Tax at Ontario’s 1% provincial average — an estimate; confirm your municipality’s rate.

Qualifying income under each rental offset method

At $2,461/mo of rent, tested at the 6.69% qualifying rate rather than the 4.69% contract rate.

MethodHow the rent is readRent countedHousehold income needed
50% offsetThe most conservative reading, and the one that leaves your personal income carrying the file.Half the rent is netted against the property's own carrying cost$1,231/mo$58,000
80% add to incomeThe common default across big-bank and monoline lenders.80% of the rent is added to your gross income$1,969/mo$72,000
100% offsetOffered by a minority of A-lenders and credit unions, and the method that decides whether a portfolio can keep growing.The full rent is netted against the property's carrying cost$2,461/mo$20,000

GDS capped at 39% including property tax and heat. Illustrative.

Yield, cap rate, GRM and DSCR on Sudbury numbers

Four metrics decide whether an investor takes a property seriously, and all four are arithmetic you can check. Gross rental yield is annual rent over purchase price: at the $2,461 break-even rent that is 5.95% against Sudbury's $496,588 average price. Cap rate is net operating income over price; using the property tax above and nothing else, it comes to 4.95%, and the true figure is lower still once insurance, maintenance and management are in. The gross rent multiplier — price over annual rent — is 16.8 times, where under 15 is generally read as a cash-flow market and anything past 20 as an appreciation market. And the debt service coverage ratio, rent over principal, interest and property tax, is 1.00. Canadian alt-A lenders that underwrite on DSCR typically want 1.10 to 1.25, and CMHC's own multi-unit minimum is 1.10. Read against the break-even rent that ratio is 1.00 by construction — break-even IS a coverage ratio of 1.00 — which is the point: a property renting at exactly its carrying cost fails a DSCR lender's test, and the rent has to reach $2,707 before one starts looking, or $3,076 at the strict end of the band. None of that says Sudbury is a bad market. It says a single-unit rental at these prices and this rate is bought for appreciation, mortgage paydown and the tax treatment rather than for monthly cash flow, and any page telling you otherwise is selling you something.

How an investment property mortgage works — the rules, the penalties and the paperwork that are the same in every city — is covered in full on our investment property mortgages guide. This page keeps to what is different in Sudbury.

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Investment property mortgages across Sudbury

From New Sudbury to Garson, the dominant property form in each pocket changes how an investment property file is underwritten.

New Sudbury, Garson

1960s–80s detached subdivision · Post-war detached on larger lots

Older stock is where legal secondary suites are most often found, and rental income only enters your qualifying calculation once the suite is legal and permitted — an unregistered unit is worth nothing to the lender.

South End

Newer detached subdivision

Assignment and interim-occupancy rules on a builder purchase decide whether an investor can close at all, and default insurance is unavailable on a property you do not occupy, so 20% down is the floor here.

Minnow Lake, Lively

Detached near the water, mixed vintages · Small-town detached, some private servicing

Detached stock supports the strongest rental-offset treatment, and lenders differ on how much of the rent they will count — the spread between them is usually worth more than the rate spread.

Regional Ontario lenders we shop — alongside the Big-6 banks and national monolines:

Meridian DUCA Alterna Savings FirstOntario
FAQ

Investment property mortgages in Sudbury — common questions.

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What does an investment property mortgage work out to on Sudbury's August 2026 average price?
Sudbury board-area average residential price, Sudbury Real Estate Board (via CREA) put the Sudbury average at $496,588 for August 2026. For an investment property mortgage that makes the 20% down about $99,318 (the 20% this product usually needs). The same board counted 238 Sudbury sales in August 2026. Your own property and balance replace these numbers on the file.
How does Sudbury compare with Thunder Bay and North Bay for an investment property mortgage?
On each market's own cited figure, the 20% down is $99,318 in Sudbury against Thunder Bay $81,164 (median $405,819); North Bay $92,512 (average $462,561). 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.
What transfer tax applies to a $496,588 purchase in Sudbury?
About $6,407 at the average. 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 $4,000 of it through the Ontario relief that applies here. Our land transfer tax calculator runs your own price.
What's the average investment property file size in Sudbury?
Sudbury's average price is approximately $496,588, so the typical investment property file we see here sits in the $422,100–$571,076 band. Your specific neighbourhood and property type can move that materially.
What does an investment property mortgage cost on a typical Sudbury home?
On Sudbury's $496,588 average price, a representative investment property file at minimum down works out to about $99,318 down and roughly $2,047/mo (principal + interest at 4.69% over a 30-year amortization), plus about $6,407 in Ontario land transfer tax. Your exact numbers depend on the property and your file — we run them precisely before you commit.
Why use a Sudbury mortgage broker for an investment property mortgage?
A local broker knows Northern ON's property types and which of our 100+ lenders price investment property files best in Sudbury — from New Sudbury and South End 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.
Is Sudbury a good market for a rental property?
It depends entirely on what you are buying it for, and the test is one number rather than an opinion. At the $496,588 average price a single-unit rental here carries $2,461 a month in principal, interest and property tax with $99,318 down — so the question is simply whether a comparable property in Sudbury leases above that, and above $2,707 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.
Can I use rental income to qualify for another property in Sudbury?
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 $2,461 break-even rent, tested at the 6.69% qualifying rate, the household income required ranges from $20,000 to $72,000 across those three methods on identical facts. Matching your file to the right method moves more than any rate discount on offer.
Who regulates an investment property mortgage in Ontario?
Mortgage Squad Advisors is a licensed Ontario mortgage brokerage — FSRA (Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario) Brokerage Licence #13737. All advisors are licensed and FINTRAC-trained, and every recommendation follows FSRA's conduct and disclosure rules.

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