Real estate
Toronto offers a full range of investment opportunities including brown and greenfields, Portlands, built-up urban areas and expansive suburban parks. All share excellent access to customers, suppliers and skilled labour.
Industrial
The City of Toronto has over 288 million square feet of industrial space – the second largest industrial inventory in the Toronto region. The average vacancy rate is 3.6%.
Office
The City of Toronto has an office inventory of over 235 million square feet. Toronto's downtown area is the largest and most prestigious office market in the region.
Residential
Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods. Some of the most desirable neighbourhoods are located in walking and bicycling distance of the downtown. The average house price in 2011 average was $465,412 - an eight per cent increase over 2010 prices.
Retail
With annual retail sales of almost $50 billion, the Toronto region is Canada's largest retail market. It is also a market that is more monocentric than most North American cities of similar size. "The Toronto downtown thus remains the most important agglomeration of commercial nodes in the GTA" (1)
(1) Ryerson University, Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity, GTA@Y2K (page 88).
Building permits
In 2006 over $3.4 million was spent on building permits in Toronto.
Find more information about Toronto's building permits and download an online Building Permit application.