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 […]
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. […]