{"id":23,"date":"2026-09-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/gtatorontohomes-com\/2026\/09\/21\/canada-fee-cuts-could-unlock-supply\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:00:00","slug":"canada-fee-cuts-could-unlock-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/21\/canada-fee-cuts-could-unlock-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Fee Cuts Could Unlock Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/surender-tandal\/reducing-development-fees-fda7\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Canada, development fees can meaningfully raise new-home costs, and a national housing agency found cutting them could make some residential projects ~14% more viable.<br \/>\nToronto and Vancouver showed major upside: eliminating charges could lift viable projects by ~10%, and Toronto alone could cover half its stated supply need.<br \/>\nCalgary&#039;s fees ranged from ~$4K for a one-bedroom high-rise to ~$9K for detached homes, well below Vancouver&#039;s ~$20K-$33K range for comparable units.<br \/>\nDevelopment fees still fund roads, sewers, administration, and other infrastructure, so the national housing agency&#039;s economist said the optimal level is not zero.<br \/>\nLower fees on family-sized homes could help projects compete in costly Canadian markets, where larger new units often exceed comparable resale homes and challenge families.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Canada, development fees can meaningfully raise new-home costs, and a national housing agency found cutting them could make some residential projects ~14% more viable. Toronto and Vancouver showed major upside: eliminating charges could lift viable projects by ~10%, and Toronto alone could cover half its stated supply need. Calgary&#039;s fees ranged from ~$4K for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtatorontohomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}