Canada Is Building Retail at 0.6% of Its Inventory a Year. Toronto Is Building Even Less. The retail pipeline has fallen to 4.9 million square feet, 43% of it in Calgary. Vacancy is 2.3% in the GTA and almost nothing new is coming — while Ontario just posted the largest retail sales decline in the […]
Rents Have Fallen for Eleven Quarters. Somebody Just Leased 984,176 Square Feet. LG took nearly a million square feet at 40-foot clear in King City while GTA industrial asking rents fell for an eleventh consecutive quarter. Both are true, and the gap between them is where employment land gets repriced. Urban Land Group · September […]
Hamilton’s Urban Boundary Has Now Been Set Four Times in Five Years
The Ontario Land Tribunal has ordered at least 1,600 hectares added. The province closed this door in 2023 and reopened it in 2024 — and the forecast underneath the whole exercise moved by 50,000 people last year. Urban Land Group · August 24, 2026 On August 17, 2026 the Ontario Land Tribunal ordered the City […]
Toronto Industrial Is Stabilising, So Why Is Half the Country’s New Construction Starting Here?
CBRE’s Q2 2026 figures show availability flat and absorption positive for a fourth straight quarter. They also show asking rents down for an eleventh — and the GTA taking half of Canada’s construction starts. Urban Land Group · August 19, 2026 CBRE has published its Toronto Industrial Figures for Q2 2026. The headline reads like […]
The GTA Land Market Isn’t Stalled — It’s Sorting
By Sunny Gawri, Founder & Principal, Urban Land Group The headline number for the second quarter looks like a recovery. GTA residential land trading jumped to roughly $810 million in dollar volume, more than double the first quarter. If you stopped reading there, you’d think the market had turned. It has turned, but not in […]