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Commercial financing in Windsor, ON

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Capitalor facts

  • Windsor scores 100 on the Capitalor Lender Density Score — 20 of 134 Canadian markets tracked.
  • The cap-rate seed for Windsor is 6.5%, anchoring value on income.
  • The average tracked commercial transaction in Windsor is $2,700,000.

Tier

2

Lenders

23

Observed

Density score

100

Rank 20 of 134

Avg deal size

$2,700,000

Baseline seed

Benchmark: GoC 5-year at 4.45% — observed from the Bank of Canada Valet API on 2026-08-12. Cap rate 6.5% (baseline seed).

Capitalor Commercial Debt Rate Index · Last updated 2026-08-16 · Maintained by Capitalor Data Desk

Scope: Windsor, ON · tier 2 · 10 products published

Inputs: 18 lenders · 5,900 buildings · 6.5% cap seed · $2,700,000 avg deal

Next scheduled review: 2026-09-14

How competitive is Windsor for commercial debt?

18 tracked lenders serve 5,900 commercial buildings — one lender per 328 buildings, a density score of 100 and rank 20 of 134 nationally. On the $2,700,000 average deal, a conventional mortgage at 5.05% sizes to $1,890,000 once both the 70% LTV cap and the 1.25x coverage floor are applied.

Windsor is a tier 2 market in the Capitalor coverage set: 229,660 residents, 5,900 tracked commercial buildings, and 18 lenders and brokers observed writing paper here. That works out to one active lender for roughly every 328 commercial buildings, a Lender Density Score of 100 — 20 of 134 nationally and 8 of 46 within ON.

Pricing starts from value, and value starts from the 6.5% Windsor cap-rate seed — the 66th tightest of the 134 markets Capitalor tracks. Applied to the $2,700,000 average transaction, that implies about $175,500 of net operating income before financing.

Take the anchor case: a conventional commercial mortgage at 5.05% over 25 years. Seventy percent of the average Windsor deal is $1,890,000, costing $133,247 a year to service. Coverage at a 1.25x floor caps the same loan at $1,991,466, so on the typical Windsor file leverage is the binding constraint and the number to solve for first.

Windsor is a deep lender market. On well-covenanted paper you should collect at least three competing quotes; spread dispersion between the best and worst bid in a market this deep is usually worth more than any rate-timing decision. 10 of the Capitalor product set are published for Windsor.

Deal flow in Windsor concentrates in named commercial and employment areas such as the Downtown BIA, the Twin Oaks Industrial Park and Walkerville. Capitalor publishes no separate figure for those areas: cap-rate seeds, lender counts, and deal sizes are collected and reported at the municipal level, so the numbers on this page apply across the city, and a corridor-level view has to come from asset-level comparables rather than from a published district statistic.

How these figures were produced

  • ObservedRecorded directly from the cited source series, unadjusted.
  • ModelledDerived arithmetically from observed inputs using the published method; not a market quote.
  • Baseline seedA documented starting estimate awaiting first observation. Treat as an order-of-magnitude figure only.
How Capitalor computes these numbers

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Capitalor Lender Density Score — Windsor

Active commercial lenders and brokers per 10,000 commercial buildings, indexed 0–100.

100Deep lender pool
Lenders tracked
23
Observed
Commercial buildings
5,900

02Stress the debt

Size a Windsor deal

Preset to the Windsor anchor case: $2,700,000 value, $175,500 implied NOI, 5.05% conventional pricing. Change any input to run your own file.

DSCR calculator

Preset to the Windsor anchor case

Annual debt service

$133,247

DSCR

1.32x

Within Capitalor DSCR Stress Band

Max loan at 1.25x

$1,991,466

LTV calculator

Preset to the Windsor average transaction

Current LTV

70.0%

Inside lender band

Max loan at cap

$1,890,000

Equity required

$810,000

Coverage vs rate — renewal stress curve

Loan and NOI held constant. Where the curve crosses the floor line is the rate at which this deal stops covering its debt service.

01Size the deal

Products available in Windsor

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Questions about Windsor

How competitive is commercial lending in Windsor?

18 lenders and brokers are observed writing in Windsor against 5,900 commercial buildings — a Lender Density Score of 100, ranking 20 of 134 Canadian markets Capitalor tracks. That is a deep market.

What is a typical commercial deal size in Windsor?

$2,700,000 across the Capitalor transaction sample. At 70% leverage that is $1,890,000 of senior debt and $810,000 of equity before closing costs.

What cap rate should I use for Windsor?

The Capitalor Windsor seed is 6.5%, the 66th tightest of 134 tracked markets. It is a market-wide baseline, not an asset-level appraisal: adjust for asset class, vintage, lease term, and covenant before underwriting.

How much debt will Windsor NOI support?

On $175,500 of NOI at a 1.25x coverage floor and 5.05% over 25 years, coverage caps the loan at about $1,991,466. The 70% LTV test caps it at $1,890,000, so the binding number is $1,890,000.

Which financing products are available in Windsor?

10 products are published for Windsor under the tier 2 coverage rule. Tier 1 markets carry the full product set; tier 2 carries tier 1–2 products; tier 3 carries anchor products only, because Capitalor will not publish a page it cannot support with observations.

Are these Windsor numbers quotes?

No. They are indicative benchmarks published for comparison. Capitalor does not originate, broker, or place debt, and every figure must be confirmed with a licensed lender before you rely on it.

How often is the Windsor data refreshed?

Benchmark rate observations refresh each business day from Bank of Canada. The lender census refreshes monthly. Cap-rate and transaction seeds refresh quarterly. Revisions are appended, never overwritten, so prior observations stay auditable.

Sources

  1. [1] Statistics Canada — census of populationWindsor population base (229,660)
  2. [2] Capitalor lender census18 lenders and brokers observed writing in Windsor; refreshed monthly
  3. [3] Capitalor building inventory5,900 commercial buildings, the denominator of the Lender Density Score
  4. [4] Capitalor transaction samplingWindsor average deal size $2,700,000 and 6.5% cap-rate seed
  5. [5] Bank of Canada — GoC 5yr seriesGovernment of Canada 5-year benchmark bond yield used in the anchor pricing case
How Capitalor computes these numbers

Not adviceCapitalor is a data publisher. We do not originate, broker, arrange, or place debt, and nothing here is an offer of credit, a quote, or financial advice. Figures are indicative benchmarks for comparison and must be confirmed with a licensed lender or mortgage professional before you rely on them. About Capitalor