141,480 Approved Homes Aren’t Being Built. Stop Pricing Ontario Land on the Approval.
CMHC’s July figures show the approved-but-unstarted backlog rising while actual urban starts fell 19% year over year. Toronto’s starts are at their lowest level since 2009 — below Calgary, Montréal and Vancouver for the first time. Urban Land Group · September 4, 2026 CMHC reported that the national annualized rate of housing starts fell 5% […]
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 […]
Four Ontario Deals in One Week, All About the Same Acre of Industrial Land
Oakville converted employment land to housing. Toronto paid a manufacturer to stay on it. Burlington turned a unit of it into a housing factory. Vaughan traded some at institutional pricing. Same asset class, four different answers. Urban Land Group · August 31, 2026 Four Ontario stories landed in the trade press in the same week. […]
Toronto Stopped Building Condos
Toronto’s condo market stopped building in 2026. The interesting part is what happens in 2029. Sunny Gawri · 27 August 2026 For the first three months of 2026, not a single new condominium project launched anywhere in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Not one. Urbanation, which has tracked this market since the 1980s, says […]
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 […]
Ontario’s Data Centre Playbook: What Landowners and Developers Need to Know
The province has set out how it will decide which data centres get built — and municipalities are moving faster than Queen’s Park. Urban Land Group · August 17, 2026 On August 13, 2026, Ontario released the draft framework for its Data Centre Playbook, the province’s first consistent test for where data centres are built […]