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Over the past 20 years, MPAC has been on a mission to increase transparency around the property assessment process and how we arrive at our values.

MPAC is honoured to be featured as an exhibitor in the Transparency Showcase, a virtual exhibit of innovative and impactful transparency projects by Ontario organizations, curated by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.

In 2022, 3,409 permits for sheds were issued across Ontario, down almost 20% from 2021.

Swimming pools continue to be a popular addition to properties throughout Ontario despite experiencing about a 27% decrease in 2022.

With more than 63,000 residential home improvement permits issued province-wide in 2022, the city of Toronto again took top spot...

Ontario property owners may receive a Property Assessment Change Notice (PACN) this month.

On March 20, MPAC mailed more than 21,500 Farm Forestry Exemption (FFE) Special Amended Notices (SANs) to Ontario property owners who qualify for the exemption, indicating a change to the property’s eligible acreage and classification. 

After extensive consultation with school boards and association stakeholders, MPAC launched a new online portal to make it easier for property owners and tenants to make changes to their school support preferences.

We recently delivered customized reports to municipalities, which offer important information for our partners when managing yearly planning and budgeting activities.

Recognized for the fourth year in a row by the British Standards Institute (BSI), MPAC has successfully earned ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27017 recertifications again this year in the areas of information security management systems and cloud services information security, respectively.

Ontario condominiums are 35% smaller on average than they were 25 years ago, while the average detached home is 25% larger.

After a three-year pause, MPAC was excited to return as an exhibitor at this year’s International Plowing Match & Rural Expo (IPM) in Kemptville, Ontario.

MPAC has successfully delivered all legislated enumeration deliverables to support the October 2022 Municipal and School Board elections.

With less than one month left until the 2022 Municipal Election, we know that municipalities are continuing to work hard on their voters’ lists.

Following many great discussions at the August AMO Annual Conference, MPAC was pleased to continue our fall outreach in September with update sessions and an exhibit presence at  the Ontario Municipal Tax and Revenue Association (OMTRA) conference and the Municipal Finance Officers Association (MFOA

On September 19, 2022, MPAC hosted a Municipal Webinar focused on our role in the property tax and assessment system, current areas of focus and some operational highlights.

The 2022 MPAC Continuing Academic Excellence Award winners have been announced.

An update from Mary Dawson-Cole, Director, Municipal and Stakeholder Relations (MSR).

We are pleased to announce that two MPAC employees have been awarded the prestigious W.J. Lettner Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in their respective accreditation programs.

The 2022 Municipal and School Board elections are less than four months away and municipalities across the province are gearing up for a busy Fall.

As MPAC moves forward with a social media campaign for VoterLookUp, we wanted to provide municipalities and elected officials with updated graphics and material to support your promotion of the platform.

Since November 2021, MPAC has been working closely with municipalities and association partners to promote VoterLookUp.ca, a platform dedicated to collecting information used to create the preliminary list of electors (PLE) for municipal and school board elections.

With the return of in-person conferences, MPAC has had the pleasure of reconnecting with municipal representatives at a number of great events in recent months, and we look forward to another one as we prepare for the 2022 AMO Conference, taking place August 14 to 17.

MPAC is currently working in partnership with AMO’s business arm, LAS, on an e-permitting pilot project to demonstrate the value of digital permitting for Ontario municipalities.

Supporting hard work, excellence and a passion for learning has always been important to MPAC.

With changes to the legislation governing the collection of school support information from Ontarians, and MPAC’s plan to ensure compliance with the legislation, we are seeking to implement solutions to improve the accuracy of the school support lists.

Over the course of the past few months, MPAC has had the pleasure of reconnecting with municipal and sector partners as we’ve returned to in-person events.

On April 29, MPAC delivered the 2022 Q1 New Assessment Forecast update as required under our Service Level Agreement (SLA) with municipalities.

Swimming pools continued to be a popular home improvement in 2021, according to MPAC’s analysis of Ontario home building permits.

For the second straight year, the City of Brampton topped the list for home improvements, with 7,382 residential home improvement permits in 2021.

Amid the continued surge in renovations, sheds were a popular home improvement in 2021, according to analysis of Ontario building permits.

In 2021, led by Family Services Windsor Essex, the City of Windsor and interested organizations approached MPAC for help with a Housing Supply Challenge project.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of MPAC’s Automated Valuation Model (AVM).

At a time when there’s no way to know what tomorrow will bring, planning five years in advance is a major challenge.

Analysis of municipal building permits issued in 2020 indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic put a damper on new development across Ontario in almost every property category.

Amid a surge of renovations, swimming pools were a popular home improvement in 2020, according to analysis of Ontario building permits.

The City of Brampton topped the list for home improvements in 2020, issuing 5,716 residential home improvement permits – up 70% from 2019.

More than 106,000 Ontario homeowners obtained residential building permits in 2020 – a 9% increase from the year before, with permits for home improvements jumping by 15%.

I’ll admit it: I’ve never felt prolonged burnout like I have this year. Sure, I know what it means to be busy. We’ve all worked crazy hours leading up to big presentations, put our foot on the accelerator before planned time off, or hit a “hectic time of year.”

2020 was a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the globe, forcing us into our homes and changing life as we know it – permanently.

Along with many MPAC employees this year, I’m celebrating a milestone of 10 years with the organization.

Happy New Year to everyone. What a year 2020 was, and while I’ve heard a lot of people say they can’t wait to say goodbye to 2020...

Being a vulnerable leader can change the culture and engagement of a team and a workforce.

Anyone who knows me knows I’m an optimist by nature. While this year has been filled with changes and uncertainty, we’ve spent a great deal of time re-examining, re-affirming and re-inventing our purpose at the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC), setting us up for 2021 and beyond. 

To help the municipal sector advance its security practices, we’ve compiled a list of our top 10 ways to improve data security.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of our everyday lives, including how we work. When the Ontario government’s emergency orders closed all non-essential businesses, we temporarily closed our offices across the province so that employees could safely work from home.

Each year Ontario’s municipalities use our property assessments to set property tax rates and collect taxes to fund essential services and safeguard our communities.

During the pandemic, we’ve turned to our relationships with municipal partners across Ontario to get creative, innovate and collaborate on how we can safely share information. 

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is responsible for assessing each of Ontario’s more than five million properties. But the vast amounts of data we collect and manage each day is used for more than just determining property values—it’s also used by banks, insurance companies and t

From being one of the first Canadian public sector organizations to move to the cloud in 2013, to becoming one of the few organizations in North America to receive an ISO 27001 Certification in 2019

Municipalities across Ontario rely on MPAC to regularly assess and classify properties in their communities so that they can set property tax rates, and during COVID-19 we’ve found new ways to do that work without conducting on-site property inspections,