{"id":10,"date":"2026-09-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/homesbysunita-com\/2026\/09\/06\/ontario-tax-relief-spurs-new-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:00:00","slug":"ontario-tax-relief-spurs-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/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\/sunita-chhabra\/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>In Ontario, taxes and government charges made up ~36% of a new home&#039;s cost, putting &gt;one-third of the price beyond core building expenses.<br \/>\nDevelopment charges were a major pressure point, topping $100K per single-family home in many municipalities and, with other levies, adding as much as $200K.<br \/>\nA joint federal-provincial program let municipalities access funding if they cut residential development charges by 30%-50% or more and kept those reductions for three years.<br \/>\nAfter the HST cut, Ontario logged 8.4K new home sales in the first three mo, versus 3.6K in the same period yearly.<br \/>\nMaking the HST rebate and lower development charges permanent could give buyers, builders, and municipalities the certainty needed to improve affordability and housing supply.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ontario, taxes and government charges made up ~36% of a new home&#039;s cost, putting &gt;one-third of the price beyond core building expenses. Development charges were a major pressure point, topping $100K per single-family home in many municipalities and, with other levies, adding as much as $200K. A joint federal-provincial program let municipalities access funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbysunita.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}