Port Perry, Ontario
Port Perry has not been its own municipality since 1 January 1974, when Durham Region was created and it became part of the Township of Scugog; Canada's names authority carries it as an unincorporated place and Durham Region's open data lists it as a community of type "Village" whose municipality is Scugog. The township governs, assesses and bills it. The single largest landholding anyone publishes here is not in the village at all but under the water beside it: Parks Canada holds 3,639.43 hectares of the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site in the Township of Scugog, which is the bed of Lake Scugog — more than seven per cent of the township's area, and 3,639 hectares more than the federal government owns on dry land in it.
5 buildings · 4 with an owner established · 12 sources · 4 tier A · 1 tier B · prepared 2026-10-03
Port Perry is a community inside the Township of Scugog and has not been a municipality since 1974. Natural Resources Canada's geographical names database records it in Durham with the concise code UNP — an unincorporated place — and the generic code 202, "a named residential area adjacent to a city, town or village". Durham Region's own open data names Port Perry a community of type "Village" in the municipality "Scugog", and the regional boundary layer calls that municipality the "Township of Scugog", 519.27 km². Scugog files the Financial Information Return, MPAC assesses the parcels and Scugog and Durham Region levy the taxes; there is no Port Perry figure in any published Ontario municipal finance, and the township is too small to appear in the province's housing-supply reporting at all. Ownership follows the provincial rule: ServiceOntario states the land registry "contains the official records of property ownership and other legal interests such as mortgages, transfers and leases", "covers more than 7.4 million parcels of land in the province", is "only available online", and that on OnLand "You can do a self-search for a fee" — $37.10 per parcel register from 2 November 2026. There is no bulk ownership extract at any price, Teraview is restricted to licensed users, MPAC's values are behind three log-in-only products and still pegged to 1 January 2016, and Ontario publishes no price-paid file.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site — the Lake Scugog lands Township of Scugog — register coordinate 44.150518, -78.887387, in Lake Scugog north-east of Port Perry 3,639.43 ha |
Land | Government of Canada (Parks Canada Agency) Directory of Federal Real Property, property 09731, "Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site of Canada", custodian Parks Canada Agency, interest type Crown Owned, 3,639.433 ha and no buildings. It is 7.0 per cent of the Township of Scugog's 519.27 km² and is overwhelmingly the bed of Lake Scugog rather than land anyone stands on — the registered coordinate falls in open water about five kilometres north-east of the village. It is listed here because it is the only large holding in Scugog that any register names, and because reading it as a Port Perry holding would be wrong. |
Government | —A |
| Canadian Tire Port Perry 14325 Simcoe Street, Port Perry (Township of Scugog) 45,152 sq ft |
Retail | CT Real Estate Investment Trust CT REIT's 2025 Annual Information Form lists 14325 Simcoe Street, Port Perry in its Single-Tenant Properties table: year built 2004, last renovated 2010, Canadian Tire GLA 45,152 sq ft, no third-party GLA, lease expiring 2031. It is the only commercial property in Port Perry whose owner an opened document names. The REIT held 378 properties and 31,709,453 sq ft of GLA at 31 December 2025. No price or acquisition date is published for this property. |
REIT | —A |
| Lakeridge Health Port Perry Hospital 451 Paxton Street, Port Perry, ON L9L 1L9 (Township of Scugog) |
Institutional | Lakeridge Health Lakeridge Health's own location page gives the address as 451 Paxton Street, Port Perry, ON L9L 1L9, and lists in-patient medicine beds, surgical services, outpatient clinics, the New Life Centre and helipad access. Tier B on ownership: the page establishes that Lakeridge Health runs the hospital and where it is, but does not state title, and no parcel register was opened. It is the largest institutional building in the village and the only one of Lakeridge Health's five Durham hospital sites outside the Lake Ontario corridor. |
Institution | —B |
| Port Perry Post Office 192 Queen Street, Port Perry, ON L0B 1N0 (Township of Scugog) 609 m² |
Retail | Canada Post Corporation Directory of Federal Real Property, property 61502, interest type Crown Owned, one building, 609 m² of floor space. It is the only building the federal government owns anywhere in the Township of Scugog, and the register records effectively no land with it. Canada Post also runs a retail outlet at 158 Water Street under a lease. |
Government | —A |
| 158 Water Street and 60 Van Edward Drive 158 Water Street and 60 Van Edward Drive, Port Perry (Township of Scugog) 185 m² and 169 m² |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it Both carry interest type "Lease or Licence" in the Directory of Federal Real Property: "Retail Port Perry ON" at 158 Water St, Canada Post, 185 m² in one building, and the "60 Van Edward Drive Site", Public Services and Procurement Canada, 169 m². Together they are the whole federal rented estate in the township. The register proves Canada occupies both and owns neither, and names no landlord; each would cost $37.10 per PIN to establish from the parcel register. |
Private company | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Nothing financial here is Port Perry's. The Township of Scugog files one Financial Information Return for 519 square kilometres that include Blackstock, Caesarea, Greenbank, Seagrave, Manchester, Prince Albert and a dozen more hamlets as well as the village, and publishes no breakdown. Scugog is also below the threshold of the province's housing-supply reporting, so unlike every other place in this batch there is not even a municipal completions figure to borrow. The federal numbers were matched on the register's own Municipality field, "Scugog", which is unambiguous province-wide — but the Metro Area field is blank for every Scugog row, so each parcel was checked by coordinate as well, which is how the Trent-Severn holding turns out to be the lake.
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.
In the Township of Scugog the published land is water. On dry ground, nothing about concentration can be established at all.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Government of Canada (Parks Canada Agency) Directory of Federal Real Property, Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site. Stated with the caveat because a municipality-name match on this register has mis-credited an Ontario city before: here the name "Scugog" is unique province-wide, but the coordinate check is what shows the holding is the lake rather than the village. |
Government | 3,639.43 ha — 7.0% of the township, and almost all of it the bed of Lake ScugogA |
| Every private holder of Scugog farmland The Financial Information Return publishes the township's total farmland assessment and no holder, no parcel and no concentration measure. Ontario has no open roll, no price-paid file and no bulk ownership extract, so who owns the farmland around Port Perry cannot be established at any tier. |
Private company | not established — $583,812,772 of assessed farmlandA |
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.
Port Perry's new housing is a small number of subdivisions put up by Greater Toronto builders who incorporate a company for the site, plus a handful of local custom builders. Two of the GTA companies dominate: Delpark Homes (Port Perry) Inc., registered on Keele Street in Concord, and Oxnard Port Perry Inc., registered on Leslie Street in Richmond Hill. Four licensees actually registered in Port Perry account for 19 possessions between them, which is the real scale of local housebuilding here. Because Scugog is outside the province's housing-supply reporting, this register is the only count of new homes in Port Perry that exists in public. The standing caveat applies: the directory gives the licensee's REGISTERED address, not where the homes were built, and figures are cumulative province-wide possessions.
| Name | Type | Total possessions (cumulative, Ontario) |
|---|---|---|
| Delpark Homes (Port Perry) Inc. 124 freehold and no condominium, account B60154, umbrella Delpark Homes, licensed 1 June 2021, registered at 8888 Keele Street, Concord. The largest Port Perry licensee in the province's directory and the only one over a hundred. |
Private company | 124A |
| Oxnard Port Perry Inc. 53 freehold, account B48169, umbrella Oxnard Homes, licensed 23 April 2020, registered at 9140 Leslie Street, Richmond Hill. |
Private company | 53A |
| Steve Snider Construction Inc. 18 freehold, account B38034, licensed 13 September 2007, registered at 163 Northport Road, Port Perry. The largest builder actually registered in the village. |
Private company | 18A |
| 7098731 Canada Inc. 1 freehold, account B61436, licensed 4 January 2023, registered at 139 Reach Industrial Park Road, Port Perry. |
Private company | 1A |
| Norcliffe Homes Limited, Klatt Homes Ltd. and Foundry Homes Inc. Three further Port Perry-registered licensees for which the register returns no possession count: Norcliffe Homes Limited (B8028, licensed 15 March 1985), Klatt Homes Ltd. (B48616, 19 January 2021, 379 Major Street) and Foundry Homes Inc. (B64616, 16 January 2026, 170 Casimir Street). Six licensees in all give Port Perry as their city. |
Private company | no possessions recordedA |
| Township of Scugog — all builders Scugog does not appear in Ontario's housing supply progress file and Schedule 02 of its Financial Information Return carries no new-units line, so there is no official completions count for the township at any level. This is the one place in this batch where even the municipal-wide fallback does not exist. |
Government | not publishedA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Port Perry has one commercial property whose owner is published and no others. The village's Queen Street retail, its plazas on Water Street and Simcoe Street and the Reach Industrial Park are all privately held by owners no opened source names. The biggest entertainment business with a Port Perry postal address, the Great Blue Heron Casino & Hotel, is not in the village: Great Canadian Entertainment's own page gives its address as 21777 Island Road, Port Perry and describes it as "Located in the scenic backdrop of Scugog Island", several kilometres out on the island, and the page states only that Great Canadian operates it, not who owns the land. It is therefore left out of the marquee rather than counted as a Port Perry building.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| CT Real Estate Investment Trust CT REIT 2025 Annual Information Form, Single-Tenant Properties table, year built 2004, last renovated 2010, lease expiring 2031. The only named commercial owner in Port Perry. |
REIT | 45,152 sq ft at 14325 Simcoe StreetA |
| Lakeridge Health Lakeridge Health's own location page. Tier B because it establishes operation and address rather than title. |
Institution | one hospital site at 451 Paxton StreetB |
| Government of Canada Directory of Federal Real Property: the Port Perry post office at 192 Queen Street is Crown Owned; the Canada Post retail outlet at 158 Water Street and a Public Services and Procurement Canada site at 60 Van Edward Drive are leases. |
Government | 609 m² owned, 354 m² leasedA |
| Great Canadian Entertainment (operator, not established as owner) Great Canadian's own page for the Great Blue Heron Casino & Hotel gives the address 21777 Island Road, Port Perry L9L 1B6 and says it is "Located in the scenic backdrop of Scugog Island", with an event venue "designed to host up to 800 guests" spanning 12,637 square feet. It says nothing about who owns the land or the buildings, and this record does not treat an operator as an owner. It is also outside the village. |
Private company | a casino and hotel with a 12,637 sq ft banquet hallA |
| Queen Street, Water Street and the Reach Industrial Park No REIT filing, annual report or company page opened in this research names an owner for any of Port Perry's downtown retail, its plazas or its industrial park. Ontario publishes no assessment roll, no price-paid file and no bulk ownership extract; the only route is the parcel register at $37.10 per PIN. |
Private company | not establishedA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Any Port Perry-only assessment, levy, population or housing figure. The Township of Scugog files one Financial Information Return for 519 km² and more than a dozen communities.
- Any housing-completions count for Port Perry or Scugog at all. The township is below the threshold of Ontario's housing supply reporting and its Financial Information Return carries no new-units line.
- Who owns the land and buildings of the Great Blue Heron Casino & Hotel at 21777 Island Road. Great Canadian Entertainment's own page names it as one of its destinations and says nothing about title; the site is on Scugog Island rather than in the village, and no opened source establishes its tenure.
- The landlords of 158 Water Street and 60 Van Edward Drive, the two premises Canada rents in the township. The federal register proves Canada does not own them and names no counterparty.
- Registered title to the Port Perry Hospital site. Lakeridge Health's page establishes operation and address, not ownership, which is why that entry is tier B.
- Any assessed value for any Port Perry parcel. MPAC publishes no roll, its lookup is CAPTCHA-gated and the 2026 tax year still runs on 1 January 2016 values.
- Any per-sale price with an address in Ontario. Consideration appears only on the registered transfer instrument, per parcel, at the fee in s2.
- Anything from the Township of Scugog itself. scugog.ca returns 404 bodies with full site chrome on deep paths, so no facility list, asset inventory, council report or conflict-of-interest registry was opened; nothing about any council member's holdings was established and nothing is alleged.
Sources
- Land Registry — "the official records of property ownership and other legal interests", "more than 7.4 million parcels", services "only available online", "You can do a self-search for a fee" — ServiceOntario (Government of Ontario) · openA
- Bulletin No. 2026-04, Land Services Fee Changes effective November 2, 2026 — copy of parcel register including first page $9.70 + $24.25 + $3.15 = $37.10; adjacent parcel register per PIN $13.15; additional page $2.56; inactive parcel register $1.36 — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Land Registry Services Branch · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — full XML dataset (custodian, interest type, land area, floor area, building count, parcel coordinates) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- The Assessment Cycle — "Property assessments for the 2026 property tax year will continue to be based on fully phased-in January 1, 2016 current values." — Municipal Property Assessment Corporation · openA
- Canadian Geographical Names Database — "Port Perry", Durham, concise code UNP (unincorporated place), generic 202, decision date 1950-05-04 — Natural Resources Canada · openA
- Financial Information Return, multi-year bulk data — Township of Scugog 2025, Schedule 26 taxable assessment by class and Schedule 22 levies — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) · openA
- Ontario Builder Directory — licensee records and possession counts (api/builders, api/buildersummary) — Home Construction Regulatory Authority · openA
- Ontario's housing supply: January – December 2024 — the municipality list, which does not include Scugog — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) · openA
- 2025 Annual Information Form — Single-Tenant Properties table, "14325 Simcoe Street, Port Perry", 45,152 sq ft, lease expiry 2031; portfolio 31,709,453 sq ft across 378 properties — CT Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- Durham Region open data — BDRY_Municipal_Boundaries ("Township of Scugog", 519.27 km²) and COMMUNITY_Durham_Communities ("Port Perry", community type Village, municipality Scugog) — Regional Municipality of Durham · openA
- Port Perry Hospital — location page giving 451 Paxton Street, Port Perry, ON L9L 1L9 and the services on site — Lakeridge Health · openA
- Great Blue Heron Casino & Hotel — "Located in the scenic backdrop of Scugog Island", 21777 Island Road, Port Perry L9L 1B6 — Great Canadian Entertainment · openA