Monthly report · February 2025
Toronto building permits, February 2025
The City of Toronto issued 2,207 building permits in February 2025, −20.7% on January 2025 and −17.0% on February 2024. Between them they cover 309 new homes and $621.4M of declared construction value. Yonge-Bay Corridor took the most permits of any neighbourhood, at 88.
- Permits issued
- 2,207−20.7% on January 2025
- Homes created
- 309net +197 after 112 removed
- Declared construction value
- $621.4Mas filed, not adjusted
- Demolitions
- 72full demolition permits
Where the building happened
| Neighbourhood | Permits | Homes created |
|---|---|---|
| Yonge-Bay Corridor | 88 | 0 |
| Oakwood Village | 60 | 13 |
| Annex | 53 | 3 |
| South Riverdale | 43 | 1 |
| Stonegate-Queensway | 43 | 2 |
| Rosedale-Moore Park | 40 | 2 |
| Islington | 33 | 6 |
| Trinity-Bellwoods | 32 | 0 |
| Kensington-Chinatown | 32 | 0 |
| Downtown Yonge East | 31 | 0 |
| West Hill | 30 | 5 |
| Wellington Place | 30 | 0 |
| Danforth East York | 29 | 2 |
| The Beaches | 28 | 0 |
| West Humber-Clairville | 28 | 1 |
The 15 busiest of Toronto’s 158 neighbourhoods this month. Permit count and new homes are different questions: Yonge-Bay Corridor led on permits, while Oakwood Village added the most homes at 13. A permit without a dwelling unit is usually a renovation, a mechanical system or a sign.
What the permits were for
Largest projects by declared value
| Issued | Address | Work | What was filed | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 2025 | 200 Front St W | Interior Alterations | Proposal for interior alterations | $125.0M | Closed |
| Feb 12, 2025 | 2933 Sheppard Ave E | New Building | Proposal to construct a new 18-storey building with 170 Rental Residential units, retail on the ground floor and 3 levels of underground parking. See also 19 152422 ZPR and 16 260568 MV. | $65.0M | New build |
| Feb 4, 2025 | 1086 Yonge St | Shoring | Excavation and shoring for soil remediation for four (4) floors of below grade construction; this permit is ONLY for soil remediation. | $60.0M | Open |
| Feb 4, 2025 | 9 Leslie St | Other(BA) | Proposed interior alterations including structural repairs, electrical upgrades and modifications to the process piping system and HVAC system upgrades. | $52.0M | Open |
| Feb 20, 2025 | 57 Wade Ave | New Building | Construction of a new 7-storey (+ Mechanical Penthouse) building with one level of underground parking. | $35.5M | New build |
| Feb 20, 2025 | 214 College St | Interior Alterations | Interior Alterations to portions of Levels 1 through 3 to create office areas, exam rooms, multipurpose rooms as well as a new passenger elevator. The St George entrance work will include exterior accessibility alterations. | $20.0M | Open |
| Feb 11, 2025 | 77 King St W | Interior Alterations | Interior renovations to existing group D occupancy - Unit 200 - 700 | $19.0M | Closed |
| Feb 12, 2025 | 7 Hart House Crcl | Addition(s) | New east underground addition for mech/elec rooms, new east rehabilitated landscape, new north alley duct bank (1,852 sm) interior reconfiguration of squash court into mech/elec spaces (1,854 sm) | $15.5M | Open |
| Feb 7, 2025 | 174 Front St W | Interior Alterations | Proposal for interior alterations. | $14.0M | Closed |
| Feb 21, 2025 | 681 Warden Ave | Addition(s) | To construct two building additions to the existing self-service facility. The front building will provide a GFA of 3,302sq.m. and the rear with a GFA of 1,128sq.m. of the existing building. See related demolition application 24-107101. | $9.0M | Closed |
The 10 most expensive permits issued in February 2025, the largest at $125.0M on 200 Front St W. Declared value is the applicant’s own estimate on the form, not a contract price or an assessment.
How to read this, and what it is not
This counts permits the City issued in February 2025, not permits applied for. An issued permit is a decision that has happened, which is what makes the month a real unit. A permit applied for in February 2025 may not be issued for months and will appear in that month instead. Permit counts are not construction: a single build often takes separate building, plumbing, HVAC and drain permits, so 2,207 permits is fewer than 2,207 projects.
21 of this month’s permits were for laneway or garden suites — see the running count. Figures are rebuilt daily from the City’s open data and can revise as the City updates its own records, so a month keeps settling for a while after it ends. Nothing here is hand-entered. Full sources and caveats: method. A year earlier, in February 2024, the City issued 2,658 permits covering 874 homes.
Journalists and researchers are welcome to quote these figures with a link to this page. Underlying data is the City of Toronto’s, under the Open Government Licence.