Michael Barker

Michael has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of construction and development costing on projects of various sizes and stages of development. Michael is a past founder and principal of Altus Group, where he was the President of the Cost Consulting Group and part of the Management Team and Board of Directors.

Michael has spent his career as a professional cost consultant and chartered quantity surveyor, who intrinsically understands the economics of residential development. Simply put, the time and risk required to undertake residential development with the complex entitlement processes makes the creation of low-rise projects uneconomic.

Having spent more than 30 years directly involved with medium and high-density residential development in the GTA, Michael witnessed the failure of both the City and its private developers to appropriately address the “missing middle”. Having a chance to help solve this problem as part of the R-Hauz executive team is both rewarding and challenging.