Canadian Apartment Magazine

Urbanation’s latest survey of purpose-built rental buildings reports that the average Toronto vacancy rate has dropped from 5.1 per cent in Q2 to 3 per cent in Q3-2021.

The Labourers’ International Union of North America broke ground on a new mixed-use building in Hamilton, Ontario, that will feature more than 500 residential units, as well as office and heritage space.

BentallGreenOak is pledging to elevate women into at least 30 per cent of its leadership roles within the near term.

While climate change has increased the prevalence of weather-related floods, water damage due to plumbing and appliance failures happen daily—and sadly, they are often preventable.

Alice Sinia, quality assurance manager for Orkin Canada, shares timely tips for keeping outdoor amenity spaces free of mosquito and wasp infestations.

Danial Hadizadeh, CEO at Mitrex, offers insight into the latest solar energy products and their long-term sustainable benefits.

Developers are facing escalating material costs, supply chain disruptions and labour shortages in step with climbing vacancies and falling rental rates that were not contemplated 18 months ago.

Updates to the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) are coming September 1, 2021, and Ontario landlords are advised to take note.

A new report from Urbanation confirms that GTA rental market recovery began in earnest during the second quarter of 2021.

Ontario has released its rent increase guideline for 2022, setting it at 1.2 per cent on the heels of the 2021 rent freeze.

Residential landlords in Quebec face tighter rent increase margins for 2021, particularly if their buildings are centrally heated with gas or oil.

Apartment owners aren’t just fearing heightened exposure to COVID-19, but the potential onslaught of rent defaults by tenants unable to pay.