Laying the groundwork for a construction empire—with Lamont Wiltshire

On this week’s podcast, we have Lamont Wiltshire, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at the Wiltshire Group. Founded and headed by himself and his business partner, Odeen Eccleston.

Quite literally built from the foundations up, The Wiltshire group, a group of companies that delivers construction, real estate and development in the GTA, continues to be an end-to-end facilitator of quality homes to Torontonians.

The Wiltshire Group is the parent company of its award winning subsidiaries, including:
● Wiltshire Homes, a custom home builder,
● WE Realty, a full-service brokerage, and
● WE Developments, which delivers construction management, commercial and multi-residential
projects and strategic land use.

The 11-year partnership has stood the test of time due to their trust and confidence in each other, and their continued diligence in building the right company structure from the beginning.

Listen to the podcast – Download the transcript

Highlights:

Lamont recognizes the real estate bubble in the GTA, yet is focused on the external stimuli that could burst it, rather than the bubble itself.
He feels that demand is one of the biggest issues facing the market due predominantly to a lack of supply, with no real short term solution.
His award winning Wiltshire Group – via it’s vertically integrated group of companies – is the ultimate A to Z organization that develops raw land into fully functioning communities.
Like most specialist financing situations, Lamont believes that, “you need lenders that understand the land buying space and development process.”

Quotes:

“It’s kind of the foundation of how we started our group of companies. It’s a design built company that delivers custom homes renovations and additions, and provides design services. So overall, we take a construction project from the ground right to where you turn over the key to the client.”

“I think any good partnership is built off of trust.”

“One of the reasons why I chose to be an entrepreneur is I thought it would be the fastest path to financial freedom.”

“I think now we’ve seen an intense kind of mass exodus from the core of the city because you have people that can work from home and they don’t have to commute. So when the pandemic is over, and we’re all hoping it’s over soon, I do think that there are going to be some lingering lasting effects.”