Edmonton, Alberta
Edmonton publishes the assessed value of all 439,696 of its property accounts over an open API and the owner of none of them: a certificate of title costs $10.00 from Alberta's SPIN2, which retires in December 2026, and the arena the city owns is the only landmark here whose owner a document states.
8 buildings · 3 with an owner established · 18 sources · 3 tier B · 5 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Alberta runs a Torrens register under the Land Titles Act, and a certificate of title does name the registered owner — but it is sold one title at a time. SPIN2, the Land Titles and Surveys Spatial Information System, publishes its own product catalogue to anyone: a Current Certificate of Title is $10.00 as an Adobe Acrobat file, and "The cost of an online 'view' is the same as the cost of downloading a copy". The same catalogue is explicit that bulk is not a route to ownership: SPIN2 will sell volume Front of Title files at $150.00 plus two cents a title under contract, but those products "are not certified nor do they contain owner name (due to new privacy policy)", and access to the owner-name field on a title preview "only applies to Registry Agents, Internal LTO and Government Staff, SPIN 2 System Administrators and Municipalities - No Others". A second route opened on 29 May 2025 — the Alberta Registry for Land Online (ARLO), which sells titles by Plan/Block/Lot, title number, LINC or ATS description — and the province states that after the December 2026 transition "SPIN2 will be retired, and ARLO will become the system of record". What Edmonton does publish, and few cities anywhere do, is the value side in full: the Property Assessment Data dataset gives every account's assessed value, tax class, neighbourhood and ward, and a companion Property Information dataset adds legal description, zoning, lot size, gross floor area and year built — with no owner field in either. Alberta captures the price too, at registration: the Land Titles Registration Levy is charged at $5 per $5,000 of the value of land on every transfer, and "Value / Consideration" is one of the fields on a SPIN2 title preview. None of it is published as a dataset.
- data.edmonton.ca — “The Property Assessment Data dataset's licence field reads only "See Terms of Use" (licenseId SEE_TERMS_OF_USE, attribution "City of Edmonton"), and its own description restricts purpose: "The information is collected for property assessment interpretation purposes only." No permission to redistribute the rows is stated, so none is relied on.”
- alta.registries.gov.ab.ca — “"The user agrees to the terms and conditions set out in the Copyright and Disclaimer statement." SPIN2's product catalogue further states that "The original purchaser of any Land Titles products will be subject to the conditions of a purchasing agreement whether provided as an online acknowledgement or in written form."”
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Edmonton Mall 8882 170 Street NW 5,300,000 sq ft |
Retail | West Edmonton Mall Property Inc. WEM's own privacy policy names the corporate entity outright — "the West Edmonton Mall Property Inc. (\"WEM\") Privacy Policy" — and gives its address as Suite 3000, 8882 170 Street, the same civic address the City's assessment roll carries. WEM's About page states "5.3 million square feet, with more than 800 stores and services, more than 100 dining venues". It is the single highest-assessed account in Edmonton at $1,285,146,000, on a 433,592 m2 DC2 parcel with a stated year built of 1983 — 0.54% of the entire city's assessed value on one account. |
Private company | —B |
| Rogers Place 10220 104 Avenue NW |
Institutional | City of Edmonton The City states it plainly: "The City of Edmonton owns Rogers Place and the land that it sits on." The arena opened in autumn 2016 and is the home of the Edmonton Oilers. It is the second-highest-assessed account in the city at $619,289,000 on a 3,754 m2 parcel. In 2025 the City, the Oilers Entertainment Group and the Government of Alberta agreed a $408.2 million package covering a public event park, infrastructure for a 2,500-unit community at the Village at ICE District, and demolition of the Coliseum. |
Government | —B |
| 10117 Jasper Avenue (Edmonton Unlimited) 10117 Jasper Avenue NW 134,598 sq ft |
Office | Melcor Developments Ltd. Melcor's 2025 Annual Information Form lists 10117 Jasper Avenue in its Northern Alberta investment-property table as an office building of 134,598 sq ft GLA, 51% leased in 2025 against 58% in 2024, acquired 2005; Melcor's own leasing site places it in Edmonton at that address. Melcor is one of the last listed landlords that still publishes a named, per-building Edmonton portfolio: 2,120,261 sq ft of Northern Alberta commercial GLA at 83% leased, including the Melton Building (114,718 sq ft), Westgate Centre (75,093 sq ft), Trail Centre (79,578 sq ft), Capilano Centre, Birks Building, Sterling Centre and 100 Street Place. |
Public company | —B |
| Canada Place 9700 Jasper Avenue NW |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it The federal government's own register answers the question the other way round. The Directory of Federal Real Property records Public Services and Procurement Canada's interest in the "Canada Place Site" at 9700 Jasper Avenue (Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, Plan 862 2482) as "Lease or Licence" over 77,387 m2 of floor area — Canada occupies its largest Edmonton office building but does not own it. The City's roll assesses the parcel at $160,770,000 on 14,890 m2 of land with 215,363 m2 of gross building area, built 1987. Who the landlord is sits on a certificate of title at $10.00. |
Not established | —A |
| EPCOR Tower 10423 101 Street NW |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it Identified from the federal register, which names PSPC's leased "Epcor Tower Site" at 10423 101 Street and 9,911 m2 of leased floor area. Edmonton's roll assesses the parcel at $244,107,500 on 9,490 m2 of land with 67,822 m2 of gross area, built 2011 — the fourteenth-highest-assessed account in the city. No opened document states the owner. |
Not established | —A |
| Southgate Centre 5015 111 Street NW |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it Assessed at $360,124,000 on a 159,723 m2 DC2 parcel with 90,436 m2 of gross area, built 1987 — Edmonton's sixth-highest account. The centre's own website serves a "Loading..." shell with no ownership statement anywhere in the delivered HTML; its page metadata carries an author tag of "Primaris", and Primaris Management Inc.'s own leasing table, which does list Medicine Hat Mall and Park Place in Lethbridge, does not list Southgate. The question is therefore unresolved on opened sources. |
Not established | —A |
| Kingsway Mall 1 Kingsway Garden Mall NW |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it Assessed at $225,652,000 on 168,355 m2 with 119,965 m2 of gross area, built 1978. The mall's own site serves its logo, hoarding images and store records from cms.oxfordproperties.com — Oxford Properties' own content system, which also carries a "Kingsway Management Office" record — but Oxford's per-property pages return 404 bodies and its portfolio page renders nothing to a fetch, so no document we opened states who owns it. |
Not established | —A |
| University of Alberta north campus (11305 83 Avenue NW) 11305 83 Avenue NW |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The third-highest-assessed account in Edmonton at $577,118,000 — 88,418 m2 of land carrying 175,596 m2 of gross floor area, year built 1978, in the roll's "UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA" neighbourhood. Four of Edmonton's ten highest-assessed accounts sit in that neighbourhood and total $1,629,351,000 between them. The roll states value, area and use; it names no owner, and no filing names one either. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Edmonton's assessment roll is open parcel by parcel, so the concentration of value is measurable exactly — and it is strikingly flat. The hundred largest accounts in a city of 439,696 hold under 6% of its assessed value, and the downtown holds 3.3%. Note the roll year: Edmonton's open dataset is the 2025 roll, effective 1 January to 31 December 2025, where Calgary's is already 2026.
Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Edmonton is too large for a short list of holders to mean much, and the register that would prove one is paid. What can be established from open registers is the public side and the one listed private landlord that still itemises. The federal footprint inside the city is 250.6 ha across 69 parcels, three-fifths of it Crown-owned and most of that military or correctional; the province and the university show up as four of the ten highest-assessed accounts on the city's own roll but are not named as owners anywhere in it; and Melcor, headquartered in Edmonton with 102 years of Alberta operation, is the only listed company that publishes its Edmonton holdings building by building.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| National Defence The largest single federal land interest inside Edmonton in the Directory of Federal Real Property: an 86.14 ha "Military Facility Site" held under lease or licence, the 62.55 ha Crown-owned Riverbend Receiver Site, and 10.61 ha of Crown-owned land recorded as CFB Edmonton. Floor area attached to the Crown-owned parcels is 17,200 m2. |
Government | 79.45 ha Crown-owned over 5 parcels, plus 89.33 ha under lease or licenceA |
| Correctional Service of Canada Edmonton Institution, 21611 Meridian Street, 49.67 ha and 24,725 m2; Edmonton Institution for Women, 11151 178th Street, 7.12 ha and 13,776 m2. Both recorded as Crown Owned with no restriction on interest. |
Government | 57.99 ha over 3 Crown-owned parcels, 47,447 m2 of floor areaA |
| Melcor Developments Ltd. Melcor's 2025 AIF breaks its 9,003-acre raw land bank down by municipality: inside Edmonton 374 residential acres, plus Leduc 697.3, Parkland 939.36, Spruce Grove 375.72 and St. Albert 290.7 in the same region. In 2026 to the date of the Q2 MD&A it bought 20.00 acres of raw land in Edmonton for $6.10 million and sold 6.01 acres for $0.81 million. It also owns three Edmonton golf courses outright or in part — The Links at Spruce Grove (100%), Lewis Estates (60%) and Jagare Ridge (50%). |
Public company | 374 acres of residential raw land inside Edmonton; 2,678 acres across Northern AlbertaA |
| West Edmonton Mall Property Inc. One account, 433,592.15 m2 of land, assessed at $1,285,146,000 on the 2025 roll. No other single private holding in Edmonton's open record is close: the next-largest privately assessed account is Southgate Centre at $360,124,000 on 159,722.57 m2. |
Private company | 43.36 ha in one parcel — the city's highest-assessed accountB |
| Canada Post Including the 5.66 ha Edmonton Mail Processing Plant at 12135 149th Street (20,227 m2) and the Crown-owned Letter Carrier Depot City Centre at 10535 96th Street NW (2,098 m2). A reminder that the biggest federally owned buildings in a Canadian city are often logistics, not offices. |
Government | 10.11 ha Crown-owned over 4 parcels, 41,346 m2 of floor areaA |
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Edmonton is the opposite of Calgary on the one thing that matters for a builder league table: the City's General Building Permits dataset carries construction value, floor area, units added and job description but no applicant or contractor field at all, so no named builder can be counted from the public record. What is open is the shape of the market. The Alberta Regional Dashboard records 21,337 housing starts in the City of Edmonton in 2025, up from 18,384 in 2024 and 13,184 in 2023, and 14,075 building permits worth $4,915,318 thousand, of which 12,129 residential permits worth $3,215,537 thousand. The builders below are therefore the land-supply side, which does file.
| Name | Type | Stated land and lot activity |
|---|---|---|
| Melcor Developments Ltd. Melcor's Q2 2026 MD&A: "Our Edmonton region recorded the highest level of single-family lot sales during 2026, with 128 lots sold in the quarter and 212 lots sold year-to-date, up from 41 and 99 lots sold in 2025 respectively", and all four phase registrations in the first half of 2026 were in the Edmonton region. Its 2025 AIF puts raw land inventory at 9,003 acres in total, of which 2,678 acres in Northern Alberta and 374 residential acres inside Edmonton itself. |
Public company | 212 single-family lots sold, Edmonton region, H1 2026A |
| Rohit Group of Companies Rohit's own About page describes a vertically integrated Edmonton real-estate group with brands Rohit Communities, Rohit Homes, Rohit Rental Living, Rohit Commercial and Rohit Infrastructure, and an ambition to "Expand across North America". It publishes no homes-built or starts figure, so none is given here. |
Family / private | Five operating brands; no unit figure publishedA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The two institutions that own most of Edmonton's landmark retail have stopped publishing per-property pages: Oxford's property URLs 404 and Ivanhoé Cambridge's portfolio was folded into the La Caisse brand in June 2025 with its property pages removed. What is left, and is unusually good, is a listed landlord that still publishes a named building-by-building table — and a federal register that names its landlord for each leased office.
| Name | Type | Edmonton-area presence |
|---|---|---|
| Melcor Developments Ltd. Melcor's 2025 AIF names 30 Northern Alberta commercial properties with GLA and occupancy for each, most of them in Edmonton and its satellites: 10117 Jasper Avenue (134,598 sq ft), Melton Building (114,718), Trail Centre (79,578), Westgate Centre (75,093), Westcor Building (73,373, 14% leased), Sterling Centre (69,491), Princeton Place (61,279), Village at Blackmud RBC (56,524), 100 Street Place (44,245), Capilano Centre (45,487), Birks Building (36,913), Stanley Buildings (34,938), Select Building (23,432), plus Leduc Common (283,885) and Telford industrial (143,118). It also owns five Edmonton-area parking lots totalling 915 stalls and three development sites, and group-wide manages 4,155,611 sq ft of commercial GLA with 442 residential units at 81.1% occupancy as at 30 June 2026. |
Public company | 2,120,261 sq ft Northern Alberta commercial GLA, 83% leasedA |
| Melcor Real Estate Investment Trust The Directory of Federal Real Property records Defence Construction Canada's leased Edmonton office as property "Melcor REIT" at 302-13220 St. Albert Trail, 511 m2 — a rare case of a public register naming a Canadian REIT as the owning entity of a specific Edmonton address. |
REIT | Named as the landlord of 13220 St. Albert Trail in the federal property registerA |
| Government of Canada (all custodians) From the Directory of Federal Real Property, Edmonton municipality. National Defence holds the largest footprint (79.45 ha Crown-owned over five parcels plus 89.33 ha held under lease or licence, including the 62.55 ha Riverbend Receiver Site and 10.61 ha at CFB Edmonton); Correctional Service of Canada holds 57.99 ha over three Crown-owned parcels, including the 49.67 ha Edmonton Institution at 21611 Meridian Street and the 7.12 ha Edmonton Institution for Women; Canada Post holds 10.11 ha and 41,346 m2, including the 5.66 ha Edmonton Mail Processing Plant. Of PSPC's 28 Edmonton holdings, 27 are leases — the only Crown-owned one is the 3.84 ha RCMP K Division headquarters site at 11140 109 Street. |
Government | 69 parcels, 250.6 ha, 330,763 m2 of floor area — of which 19 parcels and 159.4 ha Crown-ownedA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The owners of Southgate Centre, Kingsway Mall, Edmonton City Centre, Stantec Tower, Edmonton Tower and Enbridge Centre. Oxford Properties' per-property URLs return 404 bodies and its portfolio page renders client-side; Ivanhoé Cambridge's property pages were removed when the portfolio moved to the La Caisse brand in June 2025. Each of these is a $130M-$360M account on Edmonton's own roll with no owner attached.
- ARLO's own fee schedule. The new Alberta Registry for Land Online is a single-page application that serves an identical shell on every path, so the prices it charges — which become the only prices once SPIN2 retires in December 2026 — could not be read from the site. The $10.00 figure here is SPIN2's published catalogue price.
- Whether the City of Edmonton's open assessment rows may be redistributed. The licence field says only "See Terms of Use" and the dataset description limits the information to "property assessment interpretation purposes only", so republish is set false.
- Any named-builder count for Edmonton. The City's General Building Permits dataset has no applicant or contractor field, unlike Calgary's Building Permit Builders Report, so the biggest homebuilders in Canada's fifth-largest city cannot be ranked from the public record at all.
- Edmonton's open roll is the 2025 roll; Calgary's is 2026. Comparisons between the two cities in this section are therefore a year apart.
- No sale-price dataset exists for Edmonton or anywhere in Alberta below a per-parcel title purchase, although the Land Titles Registration Levy means the province charges $5 per $5,000 of land value on every transfer and so holds the price for all of them.
Sources
- Property Assessment Data (Current Calendar Year) — City of Edmonton Open Data · openA
- Property Information (Current Calendar Year) — City of Edmonton Open Data · openA
- SPIN 2 Fee Schedule and Product Catalogue — Service Alberta, Government of Alberta · openA
- Tariff of Fees Regulation, Alberta Regulation 120/2000 (Land Titles Act), office consolidation current as of October 1, 2026 — Alberta King's Printer · openA
- Find land titles, documents or plans — Government of Alberta · openA
- Building Rogers Place and ICE District — City of Edmonton · openA
- Privacy Policy — West Edmonton Mall Property Inc. · openA
- About West Edmonton Mall — West Edmonton Mall · openA
- Melcor Developments Ltd. 2025 Annual Information Form — Melcor Developments Ltd. · openA
- Melcor Developments Ltd. Second Quarter 2026 Management's Discussion & Analysis — Melcor Developments Ltd. · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property, full dataset (dfrp-rbif.xml, 19,973 properties) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Property assessments by municipality (Total Equalized Assessment), 2026 — Alberta Municipal Affairs / Alberta Regional Dashboard · openA
- Housing Starts, Building Permits and Population by municipality — Alberta Regional Dashboard (CMHC and Statistics Canada source data) · openA
- Commercial Spaces For Lease or Sale — Melcor Developments Ltd. · openA
- Land Titles and Surveys Common Documents Fee Schedule, effective October 1, 2026 — Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction, Government of Alberta · openA
- Register a land title document or plan (Land Titles Registration Levy) — Government of Alberta · openA
- Modernizing Land Titles — December 2026 transition to ARLO — Government of Alberta · openA
- About Us — Rohit Group of Companies · openA