GTA Pulse | Housing Construction and Planning

SELECTED GEOGRAPHY

Toronto

Municipality

Homes under construction52,795September 2026 · CMHC Census Subdivision

Trailing 12-month starts10,132Urbyn calculation using CMHC monthly data

Trailing 12-month completions14,748Urbyn calculation using CMHC monthly data

Known planning homesUnavailable112 tracked Urbyn records in Toronto

Selling & upcoming presales10Presale records · separate from construction starts

CONSTRUCTION PULSE

Official construction activity

Oct 202452,795Sep 2026

CMHC Starts and Completions Survey. Monthly figures and under-construction inventory use the exact municipality-level Census Subdivision; missing monthly observations leave gaps in the chart.

CITY SNAPSHOT

Toronto had 52,795 homes under construction and recorded 10,132 starts and 14,748 completions over the latest 12 months. Urbyn tracks 112 planning files in the municipality.

URBYN DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE

What is still in the pipeline?

Planning homes count published units in municipal Early Watch records only. Presale records are counted separately, so the same homes are not added twice across products. Counts describe tracked records, not guaranteed future housing or a complete regional total.

296 planning filesUnavailable known planning homes296 Early Watch29 presales

MUNICIPAL COMPARISON

Homes under construction

Same reporting month (2026-09-30) and CMHC geography. Shown for context, not as a performance ranking.

Toronto52,795Mississauga9,955Vaughan3,144Brampton2,652

SOURCES & METHOD

Every number can explain itself

Reporting periods describe the underlying observation, while Urbyn calculations are labelled separately. Source coverage varies by geography and series.

CMHC survey methodology ↗

Construction data and planning coverage

Construction observations come from CMHC Table H6. Planning counts cover selected official feeds with different scopes. Multiple filings can describe the same development, so a combined proposed-home total is unavailable.

Toronto · 112 files · checked 2026-11-03
Mississauga · planning coverage unavailable
Vaughan · 146 files · checked 2026-11-03
Brampton · 38 files · checked 2026-11-03

CMHC monthly workbooks ↗

Completed and unsold homes

A defensible GTA total is unavailable. Urbyn has 3 Toronto project-level developer inventory records. CMHC is reviewing the methodology of its Ontario unabsorbed inventory series.

Browse dated project observations → · CMHC methodology notice ↗

Toronto planning changes

City feed checked 2026-11-03. Recorded changes currently cover the City of Toronto.

At least two stored City checks are needed before changes can be reported.

Recently submitted files

2369 EGLINTON AVE E · Site Plan Approval · 2026-10-26
179 FINCH AVE E · Site Plan Approval · 2026-10-23
1350 SHEPPARD AVE W · OPA / Rezoning · 2026-10-23
195 VALLEY RD · Site Plan Approval · 2026-10-20
3252 SHEPPARD AVE E · OPA / Rezoning · 2026-10-16
60 OVERLEA BLVD · OPA / Rezoning · 2026-10-14
689 KING ST W · OPA / Rezoning · 2026-10-13
77 RIVER ST · OPA / Rezoning · 2026-10-08
221 FINCH AVE W · Site Plan Approval · 2026-10-07
4632-4648 YONGE ST · Site Plan Approval · 2026-10-02
4632-4648 YONGE ST · OPA / Rezoning · 2026-10-02
314 MORNINGSIDE AVE · Site Plan Approval · 2026-10-01

City of Toronto Application Information Centre ↗

GTA housing, in context.