Canada

Canada has no national land register and no national price-paid file: title is provincial, an owner's name costs a per-parcel fee, and the biggest landlords are pension funds that file no securities disclosure.

7 buildings · 5 with an owner established · 21 sources · 1 tier B · 6 tier A · prepared 2026-09-27

Can you find out who owns it?

Title in Canada is provincial, so there is no national register to search and no Canada-wide owner file. Each province runs its own land title office and charges per search — CA$36.50 for an Ontario property search through Teranet eXpress, CA$11.06 for a British Columbia title search — so an owner can be established one parcel at a time, for a fee, and never in bulk. Consideration is recorded inside the registry rather than published, so there is no Canadian equivalent of HM Land Registry Price Paid; prices reach the public only as indices, chiefly the Teranet–National Bank House Price Index (built from the registries themselves) and CREA's MLS® HPI. Statistics Canada does receive provincial registry extracts for its Canadian Housing Statistics Program, but publishes only aggregates — and those tables are now marked inactive, ending with the 2022 reference year.

Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time

Cost of one title searchCA$36.50 per property search (Ontario, Teranet eXpress: $9.55 statutory + $23.85 ELRSA + $3.10 tax); CA$11.06 per title search (British Columbia, LTSA, as at 1 April 2026)

Bulk ownership dataNone published

Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales

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
Toronto-Dominion Centre 66 Wellington St W, Toronto, Ontario	Office	Cadillac Fairview Cadillac Fairview's own Toronto leasing index lists TD Bank Tower and the TD North, West and South Towers among the buildings it leases. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan states CF is 'our wholly owned subsidiary' managing over 35 million sq ft at 68 properties. No stake is stated for this complex.	Pension fund	—B Cadillac Fairview
CIBC SQUARE 81 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario	Office	La Caisse (formerly Ivanhoé Cambridge) La Caisse's real-estate page lists 'CIBC Square — OFFICES — Toronto, Canada' among its selected real-estate investments. The page states no percentage, and CIBC SQUARE is a joint venture, so no stake is asserted here.	Pension fund	—A La Caisse (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec)
Fairmont Le Château Frontenac 1 Rue des Carrières, Québec City, Quebec	Hotel	La Caisse (formerly Ivanhoé Cambridge) Listed on La Caisse's real-estate page as 'Fairmont le Château Frontenac — HOTEL — Québec, Canada' among selected investments. No stake or price is stated.	Pension fund	—A La Caisse (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec)
CN Tower 301 Front St W, Toronto, Ontario	Mixed use	Canada Lands Company The CN Tower's own privacy policy states 'The CN Tower, a division of Canada Lands Company, collects personal information ... under the authority of the Financial Administration Act', and the site footer marks the Tower's designs as marks of Canada Lands Company Limited. Canada Lands is a federal Crown corporation.	Government	—A Canada Lands Company (CN Tower)
Rogers Centre 1 Blue Jays Way, Toronto, Ontario	Mixed use	Rogers Communications Inc. Rogers' Exhibit 99.1 to a Form 6-K filed with the SEC on 6 July 2026 states 'the Rogers sports portfolio includes ownership of the Toronto Blue Jays, Rogers Centre and Sportsnet'. The filing states no price for the stadium.	Public company	—A Rogers Communications Inc., filed with the US SEC
First Canadian Place 100 King St W, Toronto, Ontario	Office	Not established a paid title search would answer it Canada's tallest office tower and the clearest illustration of the problem. No public filing names its owner: SEC full-text search returns only filings that use 100 King St W as a mailing address, Brookfield's rebranded BGRE site lists no Toronto assets at all, and the Ontario register would answer for CA$36.50 per search.	Not established	—A US Securities and Exchange Commission
Scotia Plaza 40 King St W, Toronto, Ontario	Office	Not established a paid title search would answer it No opened source states the owner. kingsettcapital.com/properties/scotia-plaza returns 404 and no Canadian filing carries a property schedule for it; the answer is a paid Ontario title search.	Not established	—A Teranet Inc. (Ontario electronic land registration)

The core land

The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.

There is no national assessment roll, so Canada has no single 'most valuable parcel' figure: assessment is provincial and, in Ontario, frozen. What the public record does give nationally is how much of the housing stock sits in corporate rather than personal hands, and a registry-derived price index without prices.

Ontario assessed values still rest on a 2016 valuation date2016

MPAC states 'Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario government has postponed the 2020 Assessment Update' and its published disclosure remains the 2016 Assessment Update (mpac.ca, read 2026-09-27). Ontario's assessment roll — the largest in Canada — is therefore a decade out of date.

Ontario residential properties owned by businesses and governments7.6% (382,810 of 5,064,025)

Statistics Canada table 46-10-0053, Canadian Housing Statistics Program, 2022 reference year — the table is now marked inactive. Toronto CMA 4.3%; British Columbia 9.8%.

Ontario average residential assessment value, all property typesCA$460,000

Statistics Canada table 46-10-0053, 2022 reference year (inactive).

Teranet–National Bank Composite 11 house price index-4.2% from its November 2025 peak

housepriceindex.ca, release of 17 September 2026: the composite fell 0.2% July to August 2026, 'the eighth decline in nine months', to its lowest level since April 2023. Index base 100 = June 2005. Built from the land registries, but published only as an index.

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.

Canada has no homebuilder league table. Nothing equivalent to the US Pro Builder Top 200 or Australia's HIA Housing 100 is published, Ontario's only per-builder public registry (the HCRA Ontario Builder Directory) is a JavaScript app that returns no rows to a script, and most large Canadian builders publish no unit counts at all — Qualico, Daniels, Polygon and Brookfield Residential's Canadian arm state none on their own about pages. The figures below are therefore assembled from each builder's own published material and are not comparable with one another. The reliable national number is the market total, not the firm total: CMHC counted 241,171 housing starts in Canada in 2025 and 149,542 in the first eight months of 2026 (StatCan table 34-10-0143, released 17 September 2026).

Name	Type	Homes, as each builder states it
Mattamy Homes Mattamy's own Company Fact Sheet PDF: 'the largest privately owned homebuilder in North America and ... Canada's largest new home construction and development firm', closings 7,825 in F2022 (year to 31 May 2022), revenue CA$4.6bn, 2,287 employees. The fact sheet is dated — F2022 is the latest figure on it.	Family / private	7,825 closings (FY2022); 8,000+ families a yearA Mattamy Homes
Tridel Group of Companies tridel.com/about-tridel: 'Over 90 years of home building experience. Over 90,000 homes built', and 'one of the largest privately held residential real estate groups in Canada'. A cumulative total since 1934, not an annual rate.	Family / private	90,000+ homes built (cumulative)A Tridel Group of Companies
Brookfield Residential brookfieldresidential.com states '50+ Communities in 40+ Cities' across the United States and Canada; its Canadian markets are listed as the Greater Toronto Area, Calgary and Edmonton. No unit count is published on the site.	Private equity	50+ communities in 40+ cities (Canada and US)A Brookfield Residential Properties ULC
Mattamy Homes (parent structure) mattamyhomes.com/about/about-mattamy: Mattamy Asset Management is the parent of Mattamy Homes, 'the largest family-owned homebuilder in North America'; the page marks the closing of its 100,000th home since inception in 1978.	Family / private	100,000th home closed since 1978A Mattamy Homes

Commercial landlords

The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.

The largest commercial landlords in Canada are pension-fund subsidiaries, not listed REITs, and they file no securities disclosure — so their portfolios are known only from what the parent plan chooses to publish in its own reports. The listed REITs are smaller and better documented. Figures below are each owner's own stated numbers and are measured on different bases (leasable area, asset count, gross asset value), so they do not rank cleanly against each other.

Name	Type	As the owner states it
Cadillac Fairview (Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan's real-estate page: 'Cadillac Fairview (CF), our wholly owned subsidiary ... CF manages over 35 million square feet of leasable space at 68 properties across the country.' The same page gives the plan's real-estate arm $28B in net assets and ~$30B of investments.	Pension fund	35M+ sq ft at 68 propertiesA Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
La Caisse real estate (formerly Ivanhoé Cambridge, CDPQ) lacaisse.com real-estate page, as at 31 December 2025: net assets $42.9B, 'Gross assets valued at $74B', 8% of La Caisse's total portfolio, 70+ global strategic partners. Global, not Canada-only.	Pension fund	CA$74B gross assets; CA$42.9B netA La Caisse (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec)
Choice Properties REIT choicereit.ca states '699 high-quality properties' across retail, industrial and mixed-use and describes itself as 'one of Canada's largest landowners'. The site publishes no GLA figure on that page; /investors/latest-reports/ is a 404.	REIT	699 propertiesA Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust
BGRE (Brookfield Global Real Estate, formerly Brookfield Properties) bgre.com: the platform 'now spans 330 million square feet across five continents'. Global figure. Its portfolio carousel names Manhattan West, One Leadenhall, ICD Brookfield Place Dubai and Potsdamer Platz — and no Canadian asset at all, despite the company's origin as a Montreal ice rink in 1950.	Private equity	330M sq ft across five continentsA BGRE (Brookfield Global Real Estate)
Oxford Properties (OMERS) Oxford states it is 'backed by OMERS' and serves 665,000 public sector members, but its headline statistics (assets globally, square-foot portfolio, AUM) render as JavaScript counters stuck at '0' to a script, so no figure is asserted here.	Pension fund	—C Oxford Properties Group (OMERS)

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 owner of First Canadian Place and of Scotia Plaza — both would have been named from a paid Ontario title search or a hand-read pension annual report.
Oxford Properties' portfolio size (square feet and AUM) — the numbers exist on its homepage but are rendered by JavaScript.
RioCan REIT's net leasable area and property count — riocan.com is behind a Cloudflare challenge.
Realtor.ca's terms-of-use clause forbidding scraping: the clause is well known but the page returns 403 to scripts, so nothing is quoted here.
Alberta and Quebec title-search fees — only Ontario and British Columbia fee pages were opened.
Canada Lands Company's own statement of what it owns — both clc.ca (TLS failure) and clc-sic.ca (Cloudflare) refused; the CN Tower attribution comes from the Tower's own site instead.
Whether any Canadian province publishes bulk ownership on any terms — British Columbia's Land Owner Transparency Registry has a statutory public-search provision and a fee line on the LTSA schedule, but its search terms were not opened.

Sources

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts, under construction and completions in centres 10,000 and over (table 34-10-0143) — CMHC, distributed by Statistics Canada Web Data Service · openA
Pricing — Teranet eXpress statutory, ELRSA and Teranet fees — Teranet Inc. (Ontario electronic land registration) · openA
Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026 — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
Real Estate — Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan · openA
Real Estate — portfolio and selected investments — La Caisse (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) · openA
Find the Perfect Office in Toronto — building index and availabilities — Cadillac Fairview · openA
CN Tower privacy policy — Canada Lands Company (CN Tower) · openA
Form 6-K Exhibit 99.1 — Rogers to acquire remaining interest in MLSE (names the Rogers sports portfolio) — Rogers Communications Inc., filed with the US SEC · openA
Company Fact Sheet — Mattamy Homes · openA
About Mattamy — Mattamy Homes · openA
About Tridel — Tridel Group of Companies · openA
Brookfield Residential — new homes for sale in North America — Brookfield Residential Properties ULC · openA
Understanding your assessment — the assessment cycle — Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (Ontario) · openA
Ownership type and property use by residential property type and period of construction (table 46-10-0053, inactive) — Statistics Canada, Canadian Housing Statistics Program · openA
BGRE — our portfolio and our story — BGRE (Brookfield Global Real Estate) · openA
Choice Properties — Canada's leading REIT — Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
Teranet–National Bank House Price Index — Teranet Inc. and National Bank of Canada · openA
Housing data and statistics sources and datasets — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · openA
EDGAR full-text search API — query for 'First Canadian Place' — US Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
Ontario Builder Directory — Home Construction Regulatory Authority (Ontario) · blockedC
Oxford Properties — what we do — Oxford Properties Group (OMERS) · openC