Choose your municipality or district to see its housing stock, who issues the permit, and the renovations we do there most.
City of Toronto
Lowest population density of Toronto's former cities, and the only district with a City flooding program named for its own centre.
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City of Toronto
261,830 dwellings, the largest of the four districts, and 48.9 percent in buildings of five storeys or more.
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City of Toronto
Highest single-detached share of the four districts at 37.2 percent, and three named basement flooding study areas.
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City of Toronto
Ontario's last borough until 1998, and the densest area we cover at roughly 5,475 people per square kilometre.
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City of Vaughan permits
About 64 percent single-detached, the highest share we cover, with four heritage conservation districts.
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City of Mississauga permits
Second units must be registered with the City, free, and the registry is published publicly each month.
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City of Markham permits
Grew 34.2 percent in the five years to 1991, which dates most of the stock to the late 1980s and 1990s.
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City of Richmond Hill permits
202,022 people at 2,004 per square kilometre, with the original village strung along Yonge Street.
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City of Brampton permits
Added more than 388,000 people between 1996 and 2021, the newest dominant housing era we work in.
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Town of Oakville permits
Four heritage conservation districts, the most of any municipality we cover, the earliest designated in 1981.
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Town of Aurora permits
A small genuinely Victorian core beside a large 2000s subdivision belt, with little built in between.
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Town of Newmarket permits
The smallest land area we cover at 38.5 square kilometres, so lots are tighter than in Aurora or Pickering.
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Town of Milton permits
A water-capacity development freeze from about 1979 to 2002 left Milton with almost no 1980s or 1990s stock.
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City of Pickering permits
Population jumped 82 percent in the 1980s, making that decade the dominant construction era here.
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City of Burlington permits
Grew 681 percent in the 1950s, the oldest dominant suburban era we cover, and is now at its built-out boundary.
View areaFour of these communities are inside the City of Toronto. Eleven are separate municipalities with their own permit office and their own local requirements.
Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and East York merged into Toronto on 1 January 1998. They share Toronto Building, the Toronto Zoning By-law, the citywide Multiplex By-law, the Basement Flooding Protection Subsidy Program and Chapter 591 noise hours.
Vaughan, Mississauga, Markham, Richmond Hill, Brampton, Oakville, Aurora, Newmarket, Milton, Pickering and Burlington each issue their own building permits. A scope written for Toronto is not a scope approved in Vaughan.
Mississauga requires a second unit to be registered and publishes the registry. Milton and Burlington issue a separate heritage permit, and Burlington's takes up to 90 days. Oakville has four heritage conservation districts covering most of its pre-1900 core.
Burlington's dominant era is the 1950s and 1960s, Pickering's is the 1980s, Brampton's is 1996 to 2011, and Milton has almost nothing from 1979 to 2002. The same renovation is a different job in each.
The crew completed our basement renovation with excellent attention to detail. They listened to our needs, offered practical suggestions, and created a comfortable space for our family.
Renovator Toronto managed our condo renovation efficiently and respected the building rules throughout the project. The workmanship was clean, and the project stayed well organized.
We had a great experience with the team from the initial estimate to the final walkthrough. Communication was clear, the schedule was well managed, and the results look fantastic.
Send your address. We serve Toronto and 15 surrounding communities, and we confirm scheduling case by case for locations close to that list rather than claiming a coverage area we cannot staff.
If you are in Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, East York or the old City of Toronto, it is Toronto Building. Everywhere else on this list it is that municipality's own building department. We confirm it by address before quoting.
The rates do not, but the job can. Access, lot width, housing era, whether a heritage permit applies and how long the local permit process runs all move the schedule and sometimes the scope, and all of that is priced in your written quote.