{"id":23,"date":"2026-09-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/comehome-ca\/2026\/09\/14\/ontario-tax-relief-spurs-new-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:00:00","slug":"ontario-tax-relief-spurs-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/ontario-tax-relief-spurs-new-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Tax Relief Spurs New Homes"},"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\/sia-mansouri-1\/permanent-tax-reform-4ff0\"\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>Ontario\u2019s approach to tax relief is reshaping the landscape for new home buyers and builders. With taxes and government charges accounting for about 36% of a new home\u2019s cost, it\u2019s no wonder affordability has been a challenge\u2014more than a third of the price is driven by factors beyond just bricks and mortar. In many municipalities, development charges alone often exceeded $100,000 per single-family home, with total levies reaching as high as $200,000. The recent joint federal-provincial initiative, which allowed municipalities to access funding by slashing residential development charges by 30%\u201350% for three years, has already made a difference. Since the HST cut, Ontario saw 8,400 new home sales in the first three months, up from 3,600 in the same period each year previously. Making the HST rebate and reduced development charges permanent could provide the stability buyers, builders, and local governments need to boost affordability and increase housing supply. As someone who\u2019s dedicated to achieving top results in real estate, I\u2019ve seen firsthand how policy shifts like these can open new doors for clients and communities alike.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s approach to tax relief is reshaping the landscape for new home buyers and builders. With taxes and government charges accounting for about 36% of a new home\u2019s cost, it\u2019s no wonder affordability has been a challenge\u2014more than a third of the price is driven by factors beyond just bricks and mortar. In many municipalities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58,"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-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comehome.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}