TACC Developments

TACC Developments is a Greater Toronto Area developer and builder with several decades of experience creating communities for families to live, work and play in, with a stated emphasis on quality and sustainability.

It is part of the wider TACC group, which has interests spanning land development and construction across the region.

Its named communities include Richlands, New Kleinburg and Boxgrove Village, each master-planned rather than assembled lot by lot.

Kleinburg and Boxgrove in particular are established names in Vaughan and Markham, which means there is finished TACC product you can go and look at rather than only renderings.

Low-rise master-planned communities: single-detached homes and townhomes, developed at neighbourhood scale in growing municipalities north and east of Toronto.

Land development is central to the business rather than an adjunct to homebuilding, which generally means the company controls the planning of its communities rather than buying serviced lots.

North and east of Toronto, in the municipalities that absorbed most of the region’s low-rise growth over the past two decades. Vaughan and Markham are the clearest examples, through New Kleinburg and Boxgrove Village respectively.

Those are both large, planned neighbourhoods rather than infill projects, which is consistent with a company whose core business is land.

A land developer takes raw land through the planning process: the official plan amendment, the zoning, the draft plan of subdivision, then the servicing, roads and lot creation. A homebuilder buys finished lots and puts houses on them.

TACC does both, which means it controls how the neighbourhood is laid out rather than inheriting someone else’s plan. The street pattern, the park locations, the mix of lot sizes and where the school block sits are all decisions the company made.

That is worth asking about. In a community you are buying into, ask what is planned for the vacant blocks around you and ask to see the approved draft plan rather than the marketing site plan. The two are not always the same document.

Less than most builders on this list. Its website carries limited company history, and its about page has moved, so founding dates, unit counts and leadership are not readily available from the source.

We would rather say that plainly than fill the gap with estimates. If precise figures matter to your decision, ask TACC directly and ask for them in writing.

Because the published record is thin, do more of the verification yourself. Go and walk Boxgrove Village or New Kleinburg, both of which are built out, and see the finished result.

Ask directly for the number of homes completed, the years the company has been building, and the Tarion registration number, then check that number on the Tarion and HCRA registries, which are public and free.

Then the usual: deposit schedule, lot premium, what is standard rather than an upgrade, grading and drainage, and the closing timeline.