The company was officially founded by brothers Abubakar and Mohsin Masood in 2014, but prior to that date the family had a long history in the region as developers. As developers, they had previously worked with the majority of the builders that operated in the region. They had a lot of experience with the industry, and so, according to Abubakar, it was “a natural transition to get into the construction side as well.” “That’s where DiGreen Homes came in,” he said. “We wanted to vertically integrate. We wanted to be able to take a project all the way from raw agricultural land to a finished product and a happy homeowner.” Today, DiGreen Homes has an active roster of homes in communities across the GTA, in municipalities including Markham, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Oakville, Brampton and Caledon. All of their projects have different points of difference depending on their locations and unit mixes, but what they all have in common is the care that DiGreen puts into them. “For us, there’s a difference between a home and a house,” Abubakar explains. “To build a house, all you need to do is build a structure and move on. That’s not us. We like to build homes. And to build a home, you need to build a complete community.” “We’re coming in with a developer mindset,” he elaborates. “We think bigger than just building a house. We’re thinking about how we can establish full communities that have parks, ponds, trails, bus stops, schools – whatever is needed to make it a home and not just a house. We started off SEPTEMBER 2022
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