u/summitranger03

If you own land on a major street in Toronto, I’d love to explore the possibility of building multiplexes or small apartment buildings together.

The idea is to generate long term rental income by leveraging CMHC financing programs, government incentives, and efficient project execution.

Looking to connect with landowners, investors, architects, planners, and people involved in real estate or construction who are serious about building housing in the city.

In Toronto, land prices still seem so high that a lot of housing deals just don’t pencil right now.

Rents don’t fully support it.
Condo sales don’t support it.
Construction costs are still high.
Financing is tight.

And now with rents softening and the condo market slowing down hard, I genuinely wonder what happens next.

Do land prices eventually come down?

Or does the economy eventually get enough stimulus/liquidity again to make projects viable?

Is anyone here interested in building purpose-built rental buildings in Ontario?

With CMHC (MLI, ACLP etc.) programs supporting high energy efficiency, affordability, and accessibility in new and existing construction. I believe there is a major opportunity for well planned rental housing.

Looking to connect with:
• landowners
• investors
• builders
• architects
• planners
• lenders
• and others involved in the real estate, development, and construction industry.

Interested in speaking with serious people focused on actually building and delivering projects.

We’re building a small network of people interested in purpose built rental, multiplex, and medium density housing development.

Looking to connect with individuals across:
• architecture
• engineering
• trades
• construction
• finance
• development
• planning and approvals

The focus is practical execution, collaboration, and long term project development not just theory or social networking.

Interested in connecting with people who think seriously about housing, construction, operations, and how projects actually move from concept to completion.

Occupied buildings are a completely different game.

Anyone can renovate an empty space.

The real challenge is coordinating work around tenants, noise restrictions, access limitations, elevators, shutdowns, dust control, complaints, and daily operations without creating chaos.

That’s where communication and planning matter more than construction itself.

What coordination issue do you see most often on projects?

Everyone talks about maximizing density.

Very few people talk about whether the project is actually financeable.

A project can look amazing on paper:
More units
More GFA
Better “highest and best use”
Bigger projected value

But if the NOI cannot support the debt, the project stalls long before construction.

That’s the part many people underestimate.

A lot of projects today are not failing because zoning is impossible. They fail because the numbers stop working once you apply real world financing constraints:
DSCR requirements
Interest rates
Construction costs
Insurance
Operating costs
Contingency requirements
Lease up assumptions

Sometimes a smaller, cleaner building with better operational efficiency is actually the stronger project.