Winnipeg, Manitoba
Manitoba sells its title register to anyone with a credit card at $33 a copy, and Winnipeg gives away what all 245,467 of its parcels are worth under an open licence — but the City's dataset has no owner column, and the province's free sales search covers all 204 other municipalities and not Winnipeg.
8 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 14 sources · 5 tier B · 3 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Manitoba's Land Titles Registry is a Torrens register operated under exclusive contract by Teranet Manitoba, with the Registrar-General of Manitoba exercising oversight. Teranet's own page is explicit that ownership is public: "Anyone can search official land and property ownership records in Manitoba using Title Check", which takes a credit card from guest users with no account. The price is $33.00 for an Electronic Certified Status of Title under the fee schedule effective 4 January 2026. Separately, the City of Winnipeg publishes every parcel's assessed value as open data under the Canada Open Government Licence, and the province's free Manitoba Assessment Online carries no owner name at all because, it says, "In accordance with The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), personal identifiers are not included as searchable items".
- teranetmanitoba.ca — “The Account Holder and each User shall not ... (i) use the Teranet Manitoba Services or the Content to create a database in electronic or other format or for the purposes of data aggregation or dissemination (otherwise than for the internal archival use of a User), whether through electronic “scraping” methods or otherwise; (j) use the Teranet Manitoba Services for batch requests for service”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CF Polo Park 1485 Portage Avenue |
Retail | Cadillac Fairview The highest-assessed parcel in Winnipeg: $619,523,000 on 2,471,450 sq ft of assessed land area, zoned C4 Commercial-Regional, on the 2027 roll. Cadillac Fairview serves the centre from its own shops domain as 'CF Polo Park'; Retail Insider reported in February 2026 that Cadillac Fairview and Shindico are partners in a long-term redevelopment envisioning roughly 3,700 rental units. |
Pension fund | —B |
| 242 Hargrave Street 242 Hargrave Street |
Residential | Not established a paid title search would answer it The second-highest-assessed parcel in the city at $247,434,000 and the highest-assessed residential one: 194 dwelling units in the South Portage neighbourhood, assessment class 'RESAM - APARTMENTS MULTIPLE USE', zoned M Multiple-Use. The City's roll states the value and the unit count but carries no owner field, and no filing we opened names the owner. |
Not established | —A |
| St. Vital Centre 1225 St Mary's Road |
Retail | Leyad Retail Insider reports that Montreal-based Leyad closed its acquisition of the roughly one-million-square-foot centre, the $160.5 million deal transferring ownership from the Ontario Pension Board. Winnipeg's 2027 roll assesses the parcel at $214,088,000 on 3,050,532 sq ft of land, zoned C4 Commercial-Regional. |
Private company | CAD $160,500,000 2026-02 Retail Insider, 17 February 2026: the deal closed the previous week and transferred ownership from the Ontario Pension Board. B |
| Outlet Collection Winnipeg 555 Sterling Lyon Parkway |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it Assessed at $205,346,000 on 1,768,990 sq ft in Tuxedo Industrial, zoned C4 Commercial-Regional — the city's third-highest parcel. The centre's own website states only 'Property managed by JLL' and names no owner; management is not ownership, so the field stays blank. |
Not established | —A |
| Kildonan Place 1555 Regent Avenue W |
Retail | Primaris REIT Retail Insider's February 2026 survey of Winnipeg retail investment names Primaris REIT as the owner and reports a $30 million redevelopment programme including demolition of a 30,000 sq ft former theatre space. Assessed at $182,644,000 on 2,225,895 sq ft, zoned C4 Commercial-Regional, 2027 roll. |
REIT | —B |
| 300 Main 300 Main Street 580,000 square feet |
Mixed use | Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (RFA Financial Inc.) Artis's Q3-2025 MD&A describes 300 Main as its entire residential portfolio: a 580,000 sq ft commercial and residential development at Portage and Main, 395 residential units over 40 floors in two phases, of which 18,481 sq ft is commercial space. The MD&A adds that the adjacent 330 Main retail property, the Shops of Winnipeg Square retail concourse, the Winnipeg Square Parkade and 360 Main are 'all of which are owned by Artis'. Artis became a wholly-owned subsidiary of RFA Financial Inc. on 1 February 2026 and its units were delisted from the TSX. |
REIT | —B |
| 360 Main 360 Main Street |
Office | Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (RFA Financial Inc.) Artis's Q3-2025 MD&A calls 360 Main 'a 30-storey Class A office tower' and states it is owned by Artis. Winnipeg's 2027 roll assesses 360 Main Street at $118,076,000 in the Portage & Main neighbourhood — the city's second-highest-assessed office parcel after the provincial government's own building. Ownership passed to RFA Financial Inc. with the 1 February 2026 arrangement. |
REIT | —B |
| 201 Portage 201 Portage Avenue |
Office | Harvard Developments Corporation Harvard Developments, the Regina-headquartered real estate arm of the four-generation Hill family's Hill Companies, lists 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg among its properties on its own corporate site, and separately reports that 201 Portage achieved a BOMA 360 designation. Assessed at $96,682,000 on the 2027 roll, zoned M Multiple-Use. |
Family / private | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Winnipeg is one of the few cities in this section whose value side is completely open and openly licensed: the whole 2027 assessment roll is queryable parcel by parcel under the Canada Open Government Licence. It has no owner column, so it says exactly what everything is worth and nothing about whose it is.
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.
Manitoba restricts who may hold farm land, and the rule is a provincial one that bears on the countryside around Winnipeg rather than the city itself: real property located outside a city, town or village and used or reasonably capable of being used for agriculture.
| Name | Type | Threshold |
|---|---|---|
| Non-Canadian individuals and organizations (statutory limit) The Farm Lands Ownership Act, passed in 1983 and in force since 1984, limits foreign interest in Manitoba farm land to 40 acres. It affects non-Canadian individuals, organizations completely or partly owned or controlled by non-Canadians, and publicly traded companies and other organizations whose ownership is open to non-Canadians; they must apply to the Manitoba Farm Industry Board for an exemption to hold more than 40 acres. Land owned before 26 September 1984 may continue to be held regardless of citizenship or residency. Manitoba does not publish a register of who holds what, and unlike Saskatchewan it publishes no exemption orders. |
Institution | 40 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.
Winnipeg publishes no builder league table. The only open, name-level record of who is building housing is the City's Detailed Development Permit Data, which carries the applicant's business name and the dwelling units each permit creates for every development permit issued since 14 November 2022 — 12,570 permits and 13,319 new dwelling units to 29 September 2026. The caveat is the same one that applies in Calgary: on apartment projects the applicant is often the architect rather than the builder (Affinity Architecture appears under two spellings with 1,022 units between them, Number TEN Architectural Group with 692), and 669 units sit on 220 permits with no applicant name at all. The table below is restricted to applicants that are builders or developers, and it understates firms that file through consultants. The City's building-permit datasets, unlike the development-permit one, carry no applicant name at all.
| Name | Type | New dwelling units on development permits issued 2022-11-14 to 2026-09-29 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragon Design Build 177 units per permit — the largest named applicant in the dataset by a wide margin, and a purely apartment-scale operation. |
Private company | 1,242 units / 7 permitsA |
| Double L Construction and Management Ltd 134 units per permit. |
Private company | 536 units / 4 permitsA |
| StreetSide Development Corporation Totalled across the three spellings the City's dataset records ('Streetside Development', 'Streetside Development Corporation', 'STREETSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION') — a reminder that the applicant field is free text, not a registry. |
Developer | 406 units / 14 permitsA |
| Broadstreet Properties Ltd. A build-to-rent operator: two permits, 177 units each. |
Private company | 354 units / 2 permitsA |
| Ironclad Developments Inc. Recorded under two applicant spellings, one of which the City's own field writes as 'Ironclad Developments Inc. (Michal Kubasiewicz)'. |
Developer | 354 units / 2 permitsA |
| Pre Con Builders 109 units per permit. |
Private company | 328 units / 3 permitsA |
| Daytona Homes (Winnipeg) Ltd. Seven and a half units per permit — the ground-oriented end of the market, invisible in any apartment-weighted table. |
Private company | 151 units / 20 permitsA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Winnipeg's commercial landlords are unusually legible for a city this size, because the largest of them is headquartered here and files publicly. No Canadian body publishes a Winnipeg league table by floor area; what follows is assembled from the landlords' own filings and corporate sites, each opened.
| Name | Type | Winnipeg presence |
|---|---|---|
| Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (RFA Financial Inc.) Artis's Q3-2025 MD&A portfolio table gives Winnipeg Industrial as 25 properties and 1,650 thousand sq ft (17.1% of the whole portfolio by GLA, 98.6% occupied), Winnipeg Office as 4 properties and 969 thousand sq ft (10.0% of GLA, 80.7% occupied) and Winnipeg Retail as 1 property and 28 thousand sq ft. Winnipeg Industrial was 9.2% and Winnipeg Office 8.6% of Q3-25 net operating income. Artis, created under the laws of Manitoba, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of RFA Financial Inc. on 1 February 2026 and was delisted from the TSX. |
REIT | 30 Winnipeg properties, 2,647,000 sq ft GLAA |
| Harvard Developments Corporation (The Hill Companies) Founded 1903, headquartered in Regina with an office in Winnipeg, and in its fourth generation of family ownership. Its own site states 'over 158 office, retail, industrial and residential properties across Western Canada', 9M+ sq ft owned and managed, 650+ tenants and 215 employees. Its named Winnipeg assets are 201 Portage and Seasons on Sterling Lyon Parkway. |
Family / private | 158 properties, 9M+ sq ft owned and managed across Western CanadaA |
| Shindico Realty Inc. Founded 1975 and describing itself as 'one of the largest privately owned real estate firms in Manitoba', with 4,700 tenants and over 2,000 multi-family units owned and managed. Its general-contracting division is SNR Construction Ltd., which appears separately in the City's development-permit record with 40 dwelling units. |
Private company | $3 billion assets under management; 13.1 million sq ft pipelineA |
| Cadillac Fairview The single highest-assessed parcel in Winnipeg. Cadillac Fairview serves the centre under its own CF branding; Retail Insider reported in February 2026 that CF and Shindico are partners in a redevelopment envisioning roughly 3,700 rental units. |
Pension fund | CF Polo Park — $619,523,000 assessedB |
| Leyad Montreal-based; bought St. Vital Centre from the Ontario Pension Board in a $160.5 million deal that closed in February 2026, per Retail Insider. |
Private company | St. Vital Centre — approximately 1,000,000 sq ft GLAB |
| Primaris REIT Named by Retail Insider as the owner of Kildonan Place, which has announced a $30 million redevelopment. Primaris's own portfolio page renders its property list client-side and served no property names to us, so the holding could not be confirmed from the REIT's own site. |
REIT | Kildonan Place — $182,644,000 assessedB |
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 columns the province's free Property Sales search actually returns. The page states you can filter by date range, sale amount and roll number, but the City of Winnipeg is not among its 204 municipalities, so there is no sale-price route for Winnipeg at any access level, and the server refused every scripted query.
- The owner of 242 Hargrave Street, the city's highest-assessed residential parcel at $247,434,000 and 194 units. It sits in the True North Square development, whose own site describes a one-million-square-foot mixed-use project but names no owning entity.
- The owner of Outlet Collection Winnipeg (555 Sterling Lyon Parkway, $205,346,000 assessed). The centre's site states only that it is managed by JLL.
- The owner of Winnipeg Richardson International Airport (assessed at $186,733,000 on 86,093,435 sq ft at T-35-2000 Wellington Avenue, the largest land parcel in the city). The Winnipeg Airports Authority site returns a Cloudflare block page to automated fetches.
- Primaris REIT's stated interest in Kildonan Place. Its portfolio page renders client-side and its investor site returns 403, so the holding rests on a trade publication rather than a filing.
- Winnipeg's building-permit datasets carry no applicant name, so the builder table is development permits only and understates volume single-family builders.
- Whether the City of Winnipeg's assessment dataset may be redistributed in bulk rather than cited: its licence field names the Canada Open Government Licence, which permits it, but the record has not been checked against any further City terms.
Sources
- Assessment Parcels (current assessment year 2027) — City of Winnipeg Assessment and Taxation Department / Open Data Winnipeg · openA
- Land Titles Fees — Fee Schedule effective January 4, 2026 — Teranet Manitoba · openA
- Check Your Title — Public Land & Title Records — Teranet Manitoba · openA
- Teranet Manitoba Terms of Use, October 1, 2026 — Teranet Manitoba · openA
- Property Assessment Services / Manitoba Assessment Online — property search — Manitoba Municipal and Northern Relations · openA
- Manitoba Assessment Online — Property Sales — Manitoba Municipal and Northern Relations · openA
- Q3-2025 Management's Discussion and Analysis — Artis Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- Artis REIT and RFA Capital — Combination Transaction — Artis Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- Harvard Developments — The Hill Companies · openA
- CF Polo Park — Cadillac Fairview · openA
- Winnipeg Retail Market Sees Major Investment Wave — Retail Insider · openA
- Detailed Development Permit Data — City of Winnipeg / Open Data Winnipeg · openA
- Shindico Realty Inc. — Shindico · openA
- The Manitoba Farm Industry Board and The Farm Lands Ownership Act (fact sheet) — Manitoba Agriculture · openA