Toronto’s luxury homes, delivered at record speed
Wiltshire Homes is a design and build firm based in Toronto that focuses on luxury custom homes. It has established itself as a leader in the city’s luxury custom home market, distinguished by its unparalleled efficiency and commitment to quality. From its origins in property renovation, the company has evolved into an integrated design-to-build powerhouse encompassing real estate and multi-unit development.
Founder and President, Odeen Ecclestone shares the company’s journey: “My now husband and I founded the company in 2014 having worked in the industry since 2008. We began doing property flips as we learned the industry, and then we began building one house at a time. Now we have the record for the fastest build in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). We pride ourselves on designing and building luxury homes, and getting them done in record time with optimal quality. In fact, we have gained a reputation for our speed and efficiency without compromising on quality and this really differentiates us from our competitors. 
“The business now employs around 40 people including in-house architects, designers, coordinators and site managers. Furthermore, our real estate firm, We Realty, owns the custom home building business, as well as our development company, which produces multi-residential apartment buildings and small communities.”
Odeen and her team are also familiar faces across North America, thanks to a TV show. “In the US and Canada, Bell Media’s reality show Listing Large, which airs on Roku and CTV, documented the growth of our businesses, buying, selling, renovating and flipping houses while juggling parenthood, and a busy family life,” she adds.
Building excellence
To accommodate recent growth, the company experienced another development, when it moved into its new offices and design center. Odeen elaborates: “It’s a stunning 5000-square-foot space, designed in-house by our team. Our clients building custom homes, as well as clients from the development business, can visit us to make their selections and go through details with their project designer. It’s really helped the growth of the company and serves as a great reflection of our brand, our vision, and where we are heading as a business in terms of technology, design, and the pursuit of excellence.”
The new facilities aid the company in executing its award-winning designs. Odeen highlights some projects which epitomize Wiltshire Homes’ approach: “We recently built our own home. It wasn’t the first time we’ve constructed our own property, but it’s definitely one of our proudest projects. It initially served as a model home before we moved in and was built to showcase a lot of the upgrades that we provide for our clients. It has all the bells and whistles, from beautiful landscaping to stone-encased transitions.
“We’re also working on the Wiltshire Retreat, which will be a 20,000-square-foot space and will see us enter the hospitality realm. Alongside the focus on signature Wiltshire design, the project is also concentrated on wellness, with features including a spa, meditation center, and a Pilates studio. It will be a gorgeous space for fun and entertainment with an overall focus on wellbeing.”
The development division is experiencing high levels of demand and success, with a recent eight-home development called Hunter Estates completely selling out. Another development called Project Gore is approaching completion. A custom estate like no other, the development features a detached five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom home, with an open 7000-square-foot layout that seamlessly integrates outdoor and indoor spaces. High ceilings and vast, expansive windows flood the space with light, creating a warm and open ambiance, enhancing the luxury feel of the home.
Thanks to all the efforts that Wiltshire Homes has invested over the past decade, it has won several awards for its design and construction, with three quite recent wins. Odeen shares the impact this has had on the business: “It’s great to be recognized, especially by our industry peers. Even just a couple weeks ago [at time of writing] we won Custom Home Builder of the Year by the Durham Home Builders Association, which is a local association here in the Greater Toronto Area. To be competing with some of the companies that we’ve looked up to since we were young, to be in the same room as the CEOs of these organizations, and to interact with them was a really inspiring and fulfilling experience. It continues to further motivate and drive us towards design and building excellence.”
Looking to the months ahead and into the coming years, Odeen concludes by outlining the company’s ambitions: “We’re very excited about the Wiltshire Retreat; we’ve broken ground on it this year; it won’t be done until next year, but we’ll be moving quickly ahead on that. We also have some other amazing client projects to complete. We’ll continue to stay on top of our game in terms of designing and building gorgeous homes, not only here in the Greater Toronto Area, but the vision and goal is for us to be building some of these exclusive luxury homes internationally.
“Over the next five years, I would like for us to have retreats and luxury home builds all over the world. More specifically, as we enter the hospitality field, it’s exciting to see how this unfolds here in the Greater Toronto Area before we undertake an expansion into other parts of Canada and North America, and then across the rest of the globe.”