GTA builders: who is behind the projects
Who put the building up matters as much as the floor plan. These are the builders behind new condominiums and townhomes across the Greater Toronto Area: how long they have been at it, what they tend to build, and what they have finished.
Alterra
Since 1973, planning, marketing and building its own transit-oriented projects end to end.
Andrin Homes
Toronto builder of low-rise communities and condominiums, and unusually direct about how to buy from them.
Arista Homes
More than 11,000 homes in master-planned communities across Southern Ontario.
Aspen Ridge Homes
Twenty-five years of family building, across low-rise communities and condominiums in the GTA.
Ballantry Homes
Founded 1989 by two industry veterans, now building low-rise through high-rise in Ontario and Atlanta.
Branthaven Homes
Burlington-based, around fifty years in the western GTA, positioned on build quality rather than price.
Brookfield Residential
Seventy years, fourteen North American markets, and 2024 Green Builder of the Year in the GTA.
Cachet Homes
Forty years from custom estates to master-planned communities, and a GTHBA Homebuilder of the Year.
Cadillac Fairview
Founded 1953, owned by Ontario Teachers' since 1999. The Eaton Centre and TD Centre are theirs.
Camrost Felcorp
Since 1976, over 80 buildings and 20,000 residences, with $4 billion more underway.
Capital Developments
Founded 2007 by two developers with European roots and nearly 12 million square feet behind them.
CentreCourt
Founded 2010, now one of Canada's largest high-rise developers, with a stated record of zero cancellations.
Concord Adex
The Toronto arm of Concord Pacific. Built CityPlace: 7,500 homes beside the CN Tower.
Conservatory Group
Founded by a Hall of Fame builder, now run by his four sons, building everything from townhomes to towers.
CountryWide Homes
Founded by a land developer with sixty years behind him, building low-rise communities north of the city.
Devron
Family owned since 1997. Custom low-rise roots, now mid-rise and high-rise in Toronto.
DiamondCorp
Founded 2008 by a municipal lawyer, on a family development legacy running back to 1953.
Dream Unlimited
Founded 1996, $28 billion under management, and a developer that is also a publicly traded asset manager.
Empire Communities
Founded 1993, over 38,000 homes, and recently rebranded from Empire Communities to Empire Homes.
Fernbrook Homes
Three decades of GTA building, and the most architecturally varied portfolio on this list.
Fieldgate Homes
Building in the GTA since 1957, now in its fourth generation of family ownership.
Fitzrovia
Canada's rental specialist: builds, owns and manages purpose-built rental rather than selling condominiums.
Freed Developments
Twenty-five years reshaping King West, and one of the few developers that also runs restaurants and resorts.
Geranium
Since 1977, and one of Ontario's few builders that takes land from acquisition through approvals to finished home in house.
Great Gulf
Building since 1975, and one of the few GTA names doing serious volume in both low-rise communities and downtown high-rise.
Greenpark Group
Founded 1967, nearly 84,000 homes, and one of the few builders that has genuinely made the jump from low-rise volume to high-rise.
Lanterra Developments
Downtown Toronto condominiums since 1999, from Toy Factory Lofts to the towers that followed.
Lifetime Developments
Family-run, four decades in, and focused on downtown Toronto high-rise rather than suburban volume.
Madison Group
Fifty-five years and three generations, developing in both Toronto and New York City.
Marlin Spring Developments
More than 8,000 homes, low-rise and high-rise, on sites chosen for transit and amenity.
Mattamy Homes
North America's largest privately owned homebuilder, founded 1978, over 100,000 homes.
Menkes Developments
Family owned since 1954, over 40,000 condominium units completed, and 20 million square feet of commercial property.
Minto Communities
Seventy years old, Ottawa-founded, and one of the few builders that also owns and manages what it builds.
National Homes
GTA builder since 1992, over 15,000 homes, and increasingly moving from low-rise into high-rise.
Oxford Properties Group
Founded 1960, owned by OMERS. Yorkdale, Square One, and a growing residential portfolio.
Paradise Developments
Over fifty years of low-rise community building across the northern and western GTA.
Pemberton Group
More than 19,500 condominium units completed, and among the GTA's largest high-rise developers.
Pinnacle International
Founded 1976. Master-planned condominium communities in Toronto, Vancouver and San Diego.
Plaza
Four decades of Toronto high-rise in Yorkville and King West, now building single-family north of the city.
RioCan Living
The residential arm of RioCan REIT, turning existing shopping centres into transit-side communities since 2018.
Rosehaven Homes
Building across Southern Ontario since 1992, with a luxury specification and an unusual share of repeat buyers.
SmartCentres
Walmart's only development partner in the world, now turning 176 store sites into mixed-use communities.
Sorbara Group of Companies
Over eighty years in Ontario real estate, and behind several genuine firsts including Toronto's first residential loft conversion.
Starlane Home Corporation
Family run since 1992, with more than 12,500 GTA homes built and sold.
TACC Developments
Several decades of master-planned community development north and east of Toronto.
The Daniels Corporation
Building since 1984, and the developer behind the Regent Park revitalization.
The Remington Group
Seventy-five years, three generations of one family, and one of the largest private landholders in the GTA.
Times Group
Four decades from custom homes to Times Square in Richmond Hill, building every project with its own construction arm.
Treasure Hill
Four homes in year one to 15,000 by year twenty, and Builder of the Year at the 2026 BILD Awards.
Tribute Communities
Forty years and more than 40,000 homes and condominiums across the GTA.
Tridel
Ninety years old, 90,000 homes, and the name behind more than 200 GTA condominium communities.