Higher Tariffs. Higher Material Costs. Lower Toronto Construction Costs. What’s Going On?
Statistics Canada attributes rising metal and steel prices directly to retaliatory tariffs. Toronto residential construction costs still fell 0.8% last quarter — one of only three metropolitan areas to decline. That gap is not good news, and it will not hold. Urban Land Group · September 6, 2026 The Town of Oakville is directing tariff-affected […]
GTA Development Charge ComparisonTitle: Where Is It Cheapest to Build Housing in the GTA?
Hamilton is cheapest for for-sale housing. Mississauga may be cheaper for purpose-built rental. Oakville has opted out entirely — and is letting an incoming council write its next by-law. Urban Land Group · September 2, 2026 Development charges used to be a number you looked up. For the next eighteen months they are a strategy […]
Ontario Just Put a Price on a Development Charge and It Lands on Land Value
Hamilton is being paid $572 million to eliminate residential development charges for three years. Vaughan gets $697.2 million to halve them. The saving is real — the question is who ends up with it. Urban Land Group · September 1, 2026 On August 27, 2026 the Governments of Canada and Ontario announced the first agreements […]