Industry News
Penguin Pick-Up partners with The UPS Store
Penguin Pick-Up and Penguin Fresh, a network of free convenient pick-up locations for online purchases, has partnered with The UPS Store throughout Canada.
Canada ranks high on ten most liveable cities list
Three of the ten most liveable cities in the world are located in Canada, according to a new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
Retail results tinge green properties in Q2
Green properties account for slightly less than 29 per cent of assets in the total REALpac/IPD Canada property index, but, with a value of $67.3 billion, equate to 48.6 per cent of its capital value.
Ontario ups efforts to close gender wage gap
Ontario is moving forward on closing the gender wage gap, using recommendations listed in the Gender Wage Gap Steering Committee's final report.
Penguin Random House opens T.O. retail shop
Penguin Random House Canada opened its first retail store in Canada this week, in the same building where the company's Toronto offices are situated.
Office market varies across Canada: report
The Canadian office market added more than 8 million square feet of new supply from mid-year 2015 to mid-year 2016, mainly in Toronto and Calgary
BOMA T.O. comments on Green Button proposal
BOMA Toronto's recently published letter to MOE offers nine recommendations on the draft policy of Ontario's Green Button energy data analytics network.
Crestpoint reaches $2.5 billion in assets
Crestpoint Real Estate Investments has completed three acquisitions that bring its diversified portfolio to $2.5 billion in its fifth year of operation.
CIBC Mellon opens new office in Mississauga
CIBC Mellon opened a new office in Mississauga, bringing more than 150 accounting, client service, operations and related professional roles to the city.
Real estate investment data standards adopted
A new standardized approach for collecting, measuring and interpreting real estate investment performance data responds to the ever widening scope of global portfolios and institutional investors' need for transparency and cross-border consistency.
CF Rideau Centre unveils $360-mill expansion
Ottawa’s CF Rideau Centre celebrated the completion of a $360 million redevelopment that spanned three years.
Energy audit standard open for public review
A proposed ASHRAE and ACCA standard that will establish consistent practices for conducting and reporting energy audits is open for public comment.
JLL completes sale of T.O’s Woodcliffe Portfolio
JLL’s Capital Markets team has completed the sale of the Woodcliffe Portfolio located in Toronto’s Downtown East and Rosedale-Summerhill neighbourhoods.
Vail Resorts to buy ski resort Whistler Blackcomb
Vail Resorts, a leading global mountain resort operator, announced it will acquire Canada’s Whistler Blackcomb Holdings and ski resort for $1.4 billion.
Investors gain view on Canadian property funds
Canadian open-ended property funds have been formally added to the IPD Global Property Fund Index following two quarters of consultative performance tracking.
Stantec Tower begins to rise in Edmonton
Construction has started on Stantec Tower, soon to be Edmonton’s tallest and part of one of the largest mixed-use projects in Canada.
First WE retail store opens in T.O’s Eaton Centre
WE, a family of organizations that empowers people to change the world, unveiled its first retail store in the CF Toronto Eaton Centre.



