Permits Recorded
2,392
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Declared Value
$780.1M
Applicant-reported
Avg. Time to Issuance
6 days
Filed → issued, mean
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 2,392 building permits in Toronto between January 1 and July 19, 2026, spanning every stage of the pipeline from application through completion. Combined declared construction value across those permits totals $780.1M. Scarborough Southwest led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Other is the leading asset class in Toronto, at 50% of counted permits (1196 of 2392).
Scarborough Southwest leads all communities on declared value at $432.7M across 1179 permits.
The largest recorded project is at 150 QUEENS WHARF RD, Scarborough Southwest, declared at $146.2M.
Permit volume ran from 361 in the earliest recorded month to 2031 in the latest — a snapshot of a live, moving pipeline rather than a finished period.
Data visualizations
Permit volume by month
Permits by asset class
Geographic analysis
Scarborough Southwest leads Toronto on declared value, followed by Willowdale and Etobicoke Centre. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| Scarborough Southwest | 1,179 | $432.7M |
| Willowdale | 488 | $198.5M |
| Etobicoke Centre | 367 | $82.1M |
Largest recorded project
150 QUEENS WHARF RD · Scarborough Southwest
Construction of a 37 storey building with 2 levels of underground parking garage for TCHC
Toronto's $780.1M in recorded declared value this period is a floor, not a ceiling — a meaningful share of permits in any city's data carry no declared value at all.
Methodology
This brief is built from Toronto's municipal permit data, normalized into PropertyLabs' unified permit schema. Figures count every permit recorded between January 1 and July 19, 2026, across all statuses — applications, reviews, issuances, and completions — so they describe the full pipeline, not just approvals. Where a municipality repeats a single master-project valuation across many sub-permits of one site, that valuation is counted once. This is a point-in-time snapshot (July 2026), not a full historical series.
Sources and limitations
Source: Toronto municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Toronto export and should not be read as a complete historical series. Unit counts are not consistently reported in this dataset and are omitted from totals. Figures are not comparable year-over-year from this file alone.
View live Toronto permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Toronto Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Toronto Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/toronto-building-permit-activity
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