{"id":14,"date":"2026-09-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/shiranihomes-ca\/2026\/09\/16\/ontario-tax-relief-spurs-new-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:00:00","slug":"ontario-tax-relief-spurs-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/16\/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\/reza-shirani\/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>Taxes and government charges have long been a significant part of a new home&#039;s price here in Ontario\u2014about 36%, in fact, which means more than a third of what buyers pay goes beyond just construction costs. Development charges, in particular, have been a heavy burden, often exceeding $100K per single-family home in many communities, with total levies sometimes reaching $200K. Recently, a joint initiative between federal and provincial governments gave municipalities access to funding if they reduced residential development charges by 30%-50% (or more) and kept those reductions in place for at least three years. This, combined with the HST cut, had a striking impact: Ontario saw 8,400 new home sales in just the first three months after these changes, compared to 3,600 during the same season in previous years. As someone who closely follows policy shifts and their impact on our housing market, I believe that making these HST rebates and lower development charges permanent could provide much-needed certainty for buyers, builders, and local governments\u2014paving the way for improved affordability and a stronger housing supply for our communities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes and government charges have long been a significant part of a new home&#039;s price here in Ontario\u2014about 36%, in fact, which means more than a third of what buyers pay goes beyond just construction costs. Development charges, in particular, have been a heavy burden, often exceeding $100K per single-family home in many communities, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiranihomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}