What moving actually costs you

In BC your rent increase is capped while you stay. The day you leave, the next tenant's rent is negotiated from scratch. That reset is the reason a move costs more than movers and a damage deposit. Set the levers to your own situation.

what a sitting tenant pays today
CMHC 2 bedroom average, Vancouver, October 2025
how much more a unit rents for on turnover. CMHC recorded 17.5% to 27.9% since 2021
BC allowable increase for 2026
your scenario. Recorded fixed sample range 2.2% to 8.6%
movers, deposit, time off work
sets the cumulative total below and how far the chart runs forward
Staying saves you $456 a month, about $5,468 a year.
Your rent sits 24% below what this unit would re-rent for.

Two ways to price your next rent, and they disagree

The turnover premium says what your unit would re-rent for. The market slider says what an equivalent unit lists for citywide. Both are estimates of the same thing, so the calculator shows you both and uses the midpoint.

$2,348
Decontrol reset: your rent plus the turnover premium
$2,363
Market slider: equivalent unit, citywide
$2,356
Used below: the midpoint of the two

The two estimates are $15 apart, so the answer below is reasonably tight.

Rent if you stay against rent if you move, with the recorded citywide average Recorded CMHC two bedroom averages from 2020 to 2025, then three scenario paths set by the sliders.
Citywide average, recorded Citywide, your scenario Growth band, 2.2% to 8.6% If you stay If you move now
Solid line with dots, up to 2025: recorded by CMHC. Everything right of the "now" divider is dashed because it is a scenario you set with the sliders, not a forecast. The citywide path continues from the last recorded value, so moving the market slider does not bend it. Your own unit is the hollow marker at "now" instead.
$7,468
Cost of moving in year one: the rent difference plus the one time cost
$30,629
Cumulative cost of moving over 5 years
$511
What the new place has to be worth per month to break even over 5 years

This is not hypothetical. Here is what CMHC recorded.

The gap between what a two bedroom rents for on turnover and what a sitting tenant pays, Vancouver CMA. Vacancy for the same year is underneath each bar.

The gap widened through the tight years to 27.9% in 2024, then eased to 23.6% as vacancy rose to 3.7%, the highest since 1988. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey, Table 6.2, editions 2022 to 2025, and the 2025 Rental Market Report.