Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
You can search Saskatchewan land titles by owner name for $15, and buy any sale record for $7 — but Saskatoon's own assessment tool is the most tightly licensed in this batch, restricted by its terms to assessed persons looking up their own property, so this record carries no Saskatoon assessed values at all.
4 buildings · 3 with an owner established · 18 sources · 4 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Saskatchewan's Land Registry, run by ISC as Saskatchewan Registry Services, is indexed by owner: ISC states a Quick Search may be run "by Owner Name" using "the surname of the individual(s) who you think is the current land owner or the name of the corporation that owns the land", with a free ISC Online Services account. A Standard Result List and Parcel Detail are free; a Title Detail is $15.00 on the schedule effective 15 April 2026. Sales are purchasable rather than published: SAMA sells ISC Property Transfer records at $7.00 each, selected by municipal unit with a date and price range. Saskatoon's assessment is done by the City's own Office of the City Assessor, and although its Property Assessment & Tax Tool is free and needs no login, its terms restrict use to an assessed person interpreting their own assessment and require a licence and a fee for anything else.
- saskatoon.ca — “Information on this website is intended to provide access by an assessed person to an assessment record or to a summary of an assessment as allowed under Section 183(2) of The Cities Act. ... Any person or entity that wishes to have access to or make use of any information on this Web site beyond the scope permitted by these Terms of Use must seek permission and a licence agreement from the Office of the City Assessor. ... A licence fee is payable for any use of information on this website beyond the scope permitted by these Terms of Use. ... any: access, use, copying, reproduction, modifying, downloading, uploading, transferring, redistribution, broadcasting, displaying, posting, printing, viewing, decompiling, reverse engineering, or other act beyond the limited scope of use described in paragraph 3 is prohibited.”
- saskregistries.ca — “ISC's own fee schedule treats wholesale extraction as a chargeable custom service rather than a permitted use: 'At the discretion of ISC, for any legacy ancillary service where there is no fee provided (for example, custom parcel picture on demand for townsites, bulk data query development) — $125.00; or $125.00 per hour, whichever is greater.'”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midtown Downtown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it Saskatoon's downtown enclosed mall. Retail Insider reported on 29 September 2025 that 'Midtown is operated by Cushman & Wakefield, a leading global real estate services firm' — an operator, not an owner — with 4.3 million visitors over the preceding twelve months, productivity of $826.23 per square foot in June 2025 (up 12.5% on 2024), sales up 11.07% on September 2024 and total sales projected at $217 million for the year. The centre left Primaris Retail REIT in a 2013 portfolio sale; Primaris's current leasing list names no Saskatchewan property, and no filing we opened names the present owner. |
Not established | —A |
| The Centre Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 499,000 sq ft |
Retail | Morguard Real Estate Investment Trust 100% Morguard REIT's own portfolio summary as at 30 June 2026 lists 'The Centre, Saskatoon, SK, MRT, 100, 499,000, 499,000' — 100% ownership of 499,000 sq ft. It is Morguard REIT's largest single retail asset in the Prairies and one of only two it holds between Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the other being Shoppers Mall in Brandon at 361,000 sq ft. |
REIT | —A |
| River City Centre 810 Circle Drive East 160,456 sq ft |
Retail | Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust Crombie's current property map lists River City Centre at 810 Circle Drive E among its holdings, together with two further Saskatoon assets: the 33rd Street West FreshCo at 302 33rd Street West and the University Heights Safeway at 1860 McOrmond Drive. Crombie's own acquisition release describes the centre as 'three multi-tenant buildings and three freestanding pads totalling 160,456 square feet, on a 13.4 acre site'. The release as served carries no year, so the purchase price it states is not reproduced here. |
REIT | —A |
| Preston Crossing 1706 Preston Avenue North |
Retail | Harvard Developments Corporation Harvard Developments, the Regina-headquartered real estate arm of the Hill family's Hill Companies and in its fourth generation of family ownership, lists Preston Crossing at 1706 Preston Ave N, Saskatoon among its properties on its own corporate site. Harvard states 158 properties and more than 9 million sq ft owned and managed across Western Canada, with 650+ tenants. |
Family / private | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
This is the one city in the batch where the record carries no assessed values, and the reason is a licence rather than a technical block. Saskatoon's Property Assessment & Tax Tool is free and open to anyone, but its terms confine use to an assessed person interpreting their own assessment and make any other access chargeable and subject to a licence agreement from the Office of the City Assessor. The figures below therefore come from the City's monthly permit reports, which carry no such restriction.
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.
Saskatchewan polices farmland ownership and publishes the enforcement, which makes it the one jurisdiction in this batch where large rural holdings can be named from a public record rather than bought from a register. The Farm Land Security Board reviews about 40,000 farmland transactions a year after title has already changed, and every exemption order it signs is posted — 242 of them at the time of writing, named by company. One of them, FarmCap Farmland LP, holds land in the Rural Municipality of Colonsay No. 342, immediately east of Saskatoon.
| Name | Type | Stated holding |
|---|---|---|
| FarmCap Farmland LP The Board's Farm Ownership Exemption Denial Order of 2 October 2025 refused FarmCap LP's application to let its principals establish a trust, finding that 'Large scale farm land investment funds create an unfair competitive disadvantage for Saskatchewan farmers'. The order records holdings in the Rural Municipalities of Happyland No. 231, Wood Creek No. 281, Morris No. 312 and Colonsay No. 342, plus an agreement to buy two further quarters totalling 319.87 acres completing in 2027, and notes FarmCap leases the land to local farmers. |
Private equity | approximately 1,440 acres acquired since 2021; seven quarters totalling 1,117.93 acres heldA |
| Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Saskatchewan barred pension plans from owning farm land in 2015 but let CPPIB keep what it then held, about 167,000 acres. The province's release of 14 October 2025 states CPPIB 'has divested itself of these holdings and now owns no farm land in the province', and that the amendment removes its exemption for the future. |
Pension fund | approximately 167,000 acres, now nilA |
| Nutrien (Canada) Holdings ULC Because its parent is listed on an exchange, Nutrien counts as a non-Canadian-owned entity under subsection 76(g) of the Act and needed the Board's permission to buy land it already leased from Imperial Oil Limited under its retail shops, crop input centres and fertilizer storage. Granted 14 May 2026 for 55.61 acres; a further 71 parcels in the same deal are inside cities, towns or villages and so outside the Act. |
Public company | 55.61 acresA |
| Non-resident persons and non-Canadian-owned entities (statutory limit) No non-resident person may hold farm land with an aggregate assessed value over $15,000 or an aggregate holding over 10 acres; no non-Canadian-owned entity may hold more than 10 acres. Pension plans, their administrators and trusts naming more than ten resident beneficiaries are barred outright, with regulated exceptions such as the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation at up to 104,000 acres. Land acquired before 1974 is exempt. Penalties run to $10,000 per contravention; since 2020 the Board has issued five orders to sell farmland bought by four foreign individuals and two orders to a corporation to reduce lease holdings. |
Institution | 10 acresA |
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.
Saskatoon publishes no builder names. Its Monthly Building Permit Report is a classification table — single family, two family, row housing, apartments — with counts, units and value, and nothing about who holds the permit. Its open data portal publishes nineteen datasets, none of them permits or assessment. Regina, 260 km away, publishes the contractor on every permit weekly under an open licence; Saskatoon does not. So the shape of the market is measurable and the firms in it are not nameable from an open source: 3,156 residential units permitted in the first eight months of 2026, of which 1,519 were apartment units on just 72 permits and 639 were single-family houses on 639 permits.
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Saskatoon's larger retail is held by out-of-province REITs and one Regina family firm; its industrial is held mostly by Artis, the Winnipeg trust that became a subsidiary of RFA Financial in February 2026. None of them publishes a Saskatoon valuation, and the City's assessment tool may not be used to supply one.
| Name | Type | Saskatoon presence |
|---|---|---|
| Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (RFA Financial Inc.) Artis's Q3-2025 MD&A portfolio table gives Saskatoon Industrial as 2 properties and 269 thousand sq ft (2.8% of the whole portfolio by GLA, 100.0% occupied) and Saskatoon Retail as 2 properties and 140 thousand sq ft (1.5% of GLA, 97.9% occupied). The MD&A names none of the four. Artis became a wholly-owned subsidiary of RFA Financial Inc. on 1 February 2026 and was delisted from the TSX. |
REIT | 4 properties, 409,000 sq ft GLAA |
| Morguard Real Estate Investment Trust The Centre is Morguard REIT's single largest Prairie retail asset, within a portfolio of 8,039,000 sq ft at the REIT's share as at 30 June 2026. |
REIT | 499,000 sq ft, 100% ownedA |
| Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust River City Centre at 810 Circle Drive E (160,456 sq ft on a 13.4-acre site), the 33rd Street West FreshCo at 302 33rd Street West, and the University Heights Safeway at 1860 McOrmond Drive — the Empire/Sobeys-anchored grocery model. |
REIT | 3 Saskatoon propertiesA |
| Harvard Developments Corporation (The Hill Companies) The only Saskatoon property on Harvard's own list, within 158 properties and 9M+ sq ft owned and managed across Western Canada. |
Family / private | Preston CrossingA |
| Cushman & Wakefield Named by Retail Insider in September 2025 as the operator of Midtown, Saskatoon's downtown mall, with 4.3 million annual visitors and $826.23 per square foot of productivity in June 2025. An operator, not an owner — the owner could not be established. |
Private company | Midtown — $217 million projected annual salesA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Every assessed value in Saskatoon. The City's Property Assessment & Tax Tool holds them and is free to use, but its terms limit use to an assessed person interpreting their own assessment and require a licence agreement and a fee for anything else, so none is reproduced here.
- The owner of Midtown, Saskatoon's downtown mall. It left Primaris Retail REIT in a 2013 portfolio sale reported at $2.8 billion to H&R REIT and a KingSett Capital-led group; Primaris's current leasing list names no Saskatchewan property, and Retail Insider's 2025 piece names only the operator.
- What Crombie REIT paid for River City Centre and when. The acquisition release on Crombie's own site states $27.2 million and a 7.1% capitalisation rate but is served with the date 'June 12' and no year, and its 'About Crombie' paragraph describes a 114-property, 11.3-million-sq-ft portfolio that is long out of date — so the price is left out rather than dated by inference.
- The owners of Saskatoon's four Artis/RFA properties. The MD&A gives counts and floor area by market and names no asset.
- Who builds houses in Saskatoon. The City publishes no permit holder names and its open data portal carries no permit dataset.
- The street address of The Centre. Morguard REIT's portfolio summary names the property and the city but no address, and both Morguard leasing URLs for it return the site's own not-found body.
- The street address of Midtown. No page we opened states it, and the City's assessment tool may not be used to supply it.
Sources
- Property Assessment & Tax Tool, including Terms of Use for the Office of the City Assessor — City of Saskatoon · openA
- Land Titles Fees, effective April 15, 2026 — Saskatchewan Registry Services (ISC) · openA
- Quick Search — search a land title by Owner Name — Saskatchewan Registry Services (ISC) · registrationA
- Land Search API — Saskatchewan Registry Services (ISC) · registrationA
- Assessments Online (SAMAView) — Saskatchewan Assessment Management Agency · registrationA
- Property Sales Information — Saskatchewan Assessment Management Agency · openA
- Bylaw No. 2024-01 (Consolidation) Access to Information Bylaw and Schedule A Fees — Saskatchewan Assessment Management Agency · openA
- Monthly Building Permit Report, as of 31 August 2026 — City of Saskatoon · openA
- Midtown Saskatoon sees record sales, 4.3M visitors & new retailers in 2025 — Retail Insider · openA
- Morguard REIT Portfolio, as at June 30, 2026 — Morguard Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- Our Properties (property map) and Crombie REIT acquires River City Centre in Saskatoon — Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- Harvard Developments — The Hill Companies · openA
- Q3-2025 Management's Discussion and Analysis — Artis Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- FarmCap Farmland LP — Farm Ownership Exemption Denial Order, Board meeting date October 2, 2025, File No. FO54064 — Farm Land Security Board, Government of Saskatchewan · openA
- The Saskatchewan Farm Security Regulation Amendments Strengthen Ability to Enforce Act — Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Agriculture · openA
- Nutrien (Canada) Holdings ULC — Farm Ownership Exemption Order, Board meeting date May 14, 2026, File No. 10-CR-442 — Farm Land Security Board, Government of Saskatchewan · openA
- 2024 Report Volume 2, Chapter 11 — Farm Land Security Board: Regulating Foreign Ownership of Saskatchewan Farmland — Provincial Auditor of Saskatchewan · openA
- Farm Ownership Decisions — 242 published Farm Land Security Board exemption orders — Publications Saskatchewan · openA