Mattamy and Great Gulf named as GTA Home Builders of the Year

GREATER TORONTO, May 7, 2018 /CNW/ - Mattamy Homes and Great Gulf Homes were named Home Builders of the Year by the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) at the 38th Annual BILD Awards on May 4. Mattamy earned the distinction as low-rise builder of the year, while the title for mid/high-rise went to Great Gulf.

The Home Builder of the Year titles are the most coveted of all the BILD Awards and recognize the builders who set the standard for the rest of the industry through their professionalism and dedication to excellence.

The winners are leaders committed to quality, caring for their customers and contribution to their community. A key component of the judging process is a customer satisfaction survey completed by the builders' purchasers.

Mid/High-Rise Home Builder of the Year Great Gulf Homes has been in business for over 40 years, the Great Gulf Group, including Great Gulf, Ashton Woods, First Gulf, H+ME Technology, and Tucker HiRise, has grown into one of North America's premier real estate organizations. They have built their reputation by continually seeking to marry design, technology and experience in exciting new ways.

Great Gulf Homes continually strive to provide the best in customer care. As a previous Tarion Award of Excellence Winner, their homeowners trust in the quality they deliver. Their buyers are fiercely loyal with many sales coming from referrals and repeat buyers.

Great Gulf Homes is wholly committed to bettering the communities in which they build. In 2017 alone Great Gulf Homes supported such great causes like the Daily Bread Food Bank, the Syrian Refugee Program and the Princess Margaret Hospital just to name a few.

This is the fourth time Great Gulf has been named the GTA's Home Builder of the Year. The company won the title in 2002, 206 and 2016.

Mattamy Homes, the Low-rise Home Builder of the Year is the largest privately owned homebuilder in North America with a nearly 40-year history of operations across the United States and Canada. The company started in 1978, building one home in Burlington. Today they have over 90,000 homeowners in hundreds of master-planned communities.

The continuing focus of Mattamy Homes is to create designs for all needs from highly crafted, architecturally-innovative Grand Detached Homes to a huge variety of Townhomes that offer first-time buyers affordability. They are continually in touch with each and every homeowner from the first touchpoint at their Sales Centre, to when a purchaser moves in, to long after they have settled into their new home, Mattamy never stops caring.

Mattamy has always given back to their community through their Community Is Our Home program and the Peter Gilgan Foundation, Mattamy supports local charities from cancer support programs to neonatal clinics, to university athletic centres and to youth skills.

This is the seventh time Mattamy has won Home Builder of Year. The company previously won in 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, and 2017.

With 1,500 members, BILD is the voice of the home building, land development and professional renovation industry in the Greater Toronto Area. BILD is proudly affiliated with the Ontario and Canadian Home Builders' Associations.

SOURCE Building Industry and Land Development Association

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