Toronto, Ontario
Ontario keeps the owner of every parcel on an official register and then charges $37.10 a parcel to look, publishes no assessment roll and no sale prices, and leaves Toronto's open data with the shape of 498,479 parcels and not one owner's name.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 17 sources · 6 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-09-27
Ontario's land registry is the official record of ownership and covers, ServiceOntario says, "more than 7.4 million parcels of land in the province" — but it is not open. The same page states that land registry services "are only available online" and that "You can do a self-search for a fee"; the fee bulletin prices a copy of a parcel register, the document naming the registered owner, at $37.10 per PIN from 2 November 2026 ($9.70 statutory + $24.25 electronic land registration services + $3.15 HST). There is no bulk extract at any price: Teraview, the professional front end, is licensed-users-only, and OnLand, the public one, is pay-per-search. Assessed values sit with MPAC behind three login-only products and are still pegged to 1 January 2016 values, and Ontario publishes no price-paid dataset, so a sale price is reachable only on the individual registered transfer at the same per-parcel fee.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Canadian Place 100 King St W, Toronto |
Office | Brookfield Property Partners L.P. 25% at 31 December 2025 BPY's FY2025 Form 20-F lists "First Canadian Place (1) ... Toronto 25% 25%" among joint operations whose share of assets it consolidates. Footnote (1): 50% of the land is under a ground lease, and at expiry the other landowner may acquire a 50% beneficial interest for a nominal amount. |
Private equity | —A |
| Brookfield Place Toronto 181 Bay St, Toronto |
Mixed use | Brookfield Property Partners L.P. 82% of the office component; 41% of retail and parking, at 31 December 2025 The same FY2025 20-F joint-operations table splits the complex: "Brookfield Place - Retail & Parking ... Toronto 41%" and "Brookfield Place - Office ... Toronto 82%", both unchanged from 2024. |
Private equity | —A |
| Bay Adelaide Centre (East and West) 333 Bay St, Toronto |
Office | Brookfield Property Partners L.P. 25% at 31 December 2025 Listed in the FY2025 20-F joint-operations table as "Bay Adelaide East & West ... Toronto 25% 25%". The filing states no price and no floor area for it. |
Private equity | —A |
| Exchange Tower 130 King St W, Toronto |
Office | Brookfield Property Partners L.P. 50% at 31 December 2025 "Exchange Tower ... Toronto 50% 50%" in the FY2025 20-F. BPY also reports 38% of 2 Queen Street East on the same table. |
Private equity | —A |
| Toronto-Dominion Centre (TD Bank Tower, TD North, West and South Towers) 66 Wellington St W, Toronto |
Office | Cadillac Fairview Cadillac Fairview's own Toronto office availability list carries TD Bank Tower and the TD North, West and South Towers as its buildings. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan states CF is "our wholly owned subsidiary" (second source, s8). CF's page is a leasing list, not a title. |
Pension fund | —B |
| CF Toronto Eaton Centre 220 Yonge St, Toronto |
Retail | Cadillac Fairview Published on Cadillac Fairview's own property site as "CF Toronto Eaton Centre"; CF appears as owner-operator and Ontario Teachers' states CF is its wholly owned subsidiary (s8). The page carries no GLA figure and no price. |
Pension fund | —B |
| CN Tower 290 Bremner Blvd, Toronto |
Mixed use | Canada Lands Company Limited cntower.ca states: "As the CN Tower's owner and manager, Canada Lands Company oversees the attraction's operations" and that Canada Lands "is a self-financing federal Crown corporation". No value or transfer price is published. |
Government | —A |
| Scotia Plaza 40 King St W, Toronto |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it No free public document opened that names the registered owner of Toronto's second-tallest office tower. Ontario's answer costs $37.10 for the parcel register (s2); MPAC's value lookup is CAPTCHA-gated and there is no open roll. This blank is the Ontario finding, not a gap in the search. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Toronto has no publishable "highest assessed parcel", because Ontario publishes no assessment roll at all — the province's values sit with MPAC behind three login-only products and are still pegged to a 2016 valuation date. What the open record does give is the outline of every parcel with nothing inside it, and a full owner name only where the owner is the City itself.
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.
Ontario has no Builder-100-style ranking, but it does have something better and almost nobody cites it: the Home Construction Regulatory Authority's Ontario Builder Directory, the regulator's own database of roughly 5,000 licensed builders and vendors, publishes each group's "Total Possessions" — defined on the page as "the total number of freehold and condominium properties occupied by a homeowner", split into Tarion-enrolled freehold properties and condominium units. The figures below are cumulative and province-wide, not annual Toronto starts, and because Ontario builders incorporate a company per project the only usable level is the umbrella account. Read as a league table it says something specific about Toronto: the largest housebuilders here are privately held family-controlled firms, not listed companies and not private-equity platforms, and the condo/freehold split marks out who builds towers (Tridel, Menkes, Daniels, all condo) from who builds subdivisions (Mattamy, Minto). New-home demand context: BILD GTA reports single-family new-home sales tripled in August 2026.
| Name | Type | Total possessions (cumulative, Ontario) |
|---|---|---|
| Mattamy Homes 27,040 freehold + 8,789 condominium, umbrella account 3337. The largest figure in the directory by a wide margin; privately held, no filing obligation. |
Private company | 35,829A |
| Minto 9,518 freehold + 4,744 condominium, umbrella account 10382, registered at 180 Kent Street, Ottawa — an Ontario-wide total, not Toronto-only. |
Private company | 14,262A |
| Tridel 12,101 condominium units and zero freehold, umbrella account 796 — the purest high-rise builder in the table. |
Private company | 12,101A |
| Menkes Developments 292 freehold + 9,698 condominium, umbrella account 3322. One chargeable conciliation recorded. |
Private company | 9,990A |
| Daniels 46 freehold + 7,881 condominium, umbrella account 8560. Pemberton Group (9,175) and Great Gulf Homes (9,163) sit just above it on the same measure. |
Private company | 7,927A |
| Brookfield Residential 1,919 freehold + 486 condominium, umbrella account 11670469 — the only entity near the top of this table owned by an alternative asset manager rather than a family. |
Private equity | 2,405A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Toronto's landlord class is unusual: the biggest owners of its core are pension funds and their wholly owned operating companies, which are not listed and file nothing. So the citable evidence is the pension's own disclosure (Ontario Teachers' on Cadillac Fairview) or, for Brookfield, a US securities filing that still discloses per-building stakes. Oxford Properties (OMERS) and QuadReal (BCI) both publish their portfolios only through client-side JavaScript that returned no figures, so neither carries a number here.
| Name | Type | Floor area / assets |
|---|---|---|
| Cadillac Fairview Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan: CF is "our wholly owned subsidiary" and "manages over 35 million square feet of leasable space at 68 properties across the country". The same page states $28B in real estate net assets and roughly $30B of investments. |
Pension fund | 35M+ sq ft, 68 propertiesA |
| Brookfield Property Partners L.P. FY2025 Form 20-F: "Our diversified Office portfolio consists of 67 million leasable square feet across 110 office assets" in markets including Toronto. The same filing names its Toronto stakes building by building. |
Private equity | 67M sq ft, 110 office assets (global)A |
| Allied Properties REIT Allied's own portfolio page states Toronto 5,200,000 sq ft / 82 properties, alongside Montréal 6,000,000 / 25, Vancouver 1,200,000 / 14, Calgary 1,200,000 / 29 and Kitchener 709,000 / 6. |
REIT | 5.2M sq ft, 82 properties in TorontoA |
| Choice Properties REIT Choice describes itself as "one of Canada's largest landowners" with "699 high-quality properties" across retail, industrial and mixed-use. No floor-area total is given on the page. |
REIT | 699 propertiesA |
| Dream Office REIT Dream's office page states "23 office buildings", "$2.2 billion office assets under management" and "4.4 million sf office gross leasable area". Its portfolio is concentrated in downtown Toronto. |
REIT | 4.4M sq ft, 23 office buildingsA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Scotia Plaza's registered owner (widely reported as a KingSett Capital-led partnership with AIMCo). KingSett's site publishes no property list — its whole page sitemap is 22 corporate pages, none of them a portfolio — and the register costs $37.10, so the record carries owner: null.
- Royal Bank Plaza's owner (Oxford Properties / OMERS). oxfordproperties.com/our-portfolio renders zeroed counters and "Fetching properties"; omers.com/real-estate returns no text at all.
- Realtor.ca's terms do forbid automated collection, but both its terms page and its robots.txt returned a block page, so no clause is quoted and realtor.ca appears only under automationBlocked.
- RioCan REIT's portfolio figures — riocan.com returns 403.
- Any 'highest assessed parcel' or core assessed total for Toronto: Ontario publishes no assessment roll, so the figure does not exist in open form at any tier.
- Per-sale prices with addresses anywhere in Ontario. Consideration appears on the registered transfer instrument only, per parcel, at the fees in s2.
- Toronto-only builder unit counts. The HCRA figures are cumulative and province-wide; the directory does not break them down by municipality.
- Floor counts and floor areas for the Toronto marquee towers. Nothing opened states them: BPY's 20-F gives stakes without areas, and MPAC's per-property detail is CAPTCHA-gated.
Sources
- Land Registry — overview — ServiceOntario · openA
- Bulletin No. 2026-04 — Land Services Fee Changes effective November 2, 2026 (Schedules I–III) — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, ServiceOntario, Land Registry Services Branch · openA
- The Assessment Cycle — Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) · openA
- MPAC home page — AboutMyProperty, propertyline and Municipal Connect log-ins — MPAC · openA
- Property Boundaries (parcel fabric) — CKAN package and DataStore — City of Toronto Open Data · openA
- Real Estate Asset Inventory — building and land asset layers — City of Toronto Open Data · openA
- Brookfield Property Partners L.P., Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 — joint operations and Office portfolio — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Real Estate — our investments — Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan · openA
- Find the Perfect Office — Toronto availability list — Cadillac Fairview · openA
- CF Toronto Eaton Centre — Cadillac Fairview · openA
- Meet Canada Lands Company — CN Tower / Canada Lands Company Limited · openA
- Market Watch — GTA REALTORS Release August Stats — Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) · openA
- Ontario Builder Directory — umbrella summaries (/api/umbrellaSummary) — Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA) · openA
- Our portfolio — Explore Our Cities — Allied Properties REIT · openA
- Canada's Leading REIT — 699 properties — Choice Properties REIT · openA
- Office — portfolio at a glance — Dream (Dream Office REIT) · openA
- BILD GTA news — August New Home Sales in the GTA — Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) · openA