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 […]
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 […]