At the corner of High Park Avenue and Annette Street in Toronto, a church slated to be transformed into condominiums has been sitting partially complete for several years.

Construction on the 70-unit condo project began in 2019, but there has been no progress since 2023.

"We all knew that something was wrong because you'd just drive by and no one's working, right? Nothing's happening," said Phil Earnshaw, who paid a $280,000 deposit in 2018 for a two-bedroom unit.

The project went into receivership last year and was sold this summer to another developer. It means buyers, like Earnshaw, who paid deposits for units before construction began won't be getting those units after all and are now waiting to get their deposits back.

The stalled High Park development is just one example of a num

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