Properties
Colliers International moves into brand new HQ
Colliers International just moved more than 220 employees into its sprawling new headquarters in downtown Toronto.
Montreal building first vertical smart community
A new $200-million hotel-office-condo-multifamily development officially broke ground in downtown Montreal last week.
Aging mall in cottage country finds new life
A few years ago, an aging mall in Midland, Ontario, was left struggling like many enclosed shopping centres across Canada.
Wellness key in future office building designs
The conversation around building health and wellness and thermal comfort is not new in the building industry, but now tenants are beginning to acknowledge these
National retail market highlights: spring 2017
Colliers' National Retail Report highlights the Q1 retail market and explains how all malls in Canada will undergo some fundamental structural change.
Old Port of Montreal unveils new master plan
A preliminary master plan for the Old Port of Montreal imagines a dynamic, mixed-use waterfront site with closer access to the St. Lawrence River.
Research challenges current green roof standards
Flooding is giving rise to new research on how green roof performance metrics can better manage water capacity.
Alberta rolls out energy conservation programs
Commercial business operators and broader public sector entities such as health care facilities, schools, universities and colleges can claim for partial refunds of applicable purchases made since March 24 of this year.
Online spending impacts commercial real estate
Online spending, sometimes also labelled ‘home shopping,’ is consistently achieving double-digit growth and slowly taking a bigger share of overall retailing. In the first quarter
Understanding how to enforce strata bylaws
It will come as no surprise to strata property managers that life in a strata corporation means living under certain laws of the land. The
Commercial electricity customers mull decision
Newly expanded eligibility for Ontario's Industrial Conservation Initiative could be even more punitive for smaller customers on the losing side of cost redistribution.
Retail leader buckles down on EV range anxiety
CF's national electric vehicle charging program will add 45 networked chargers at 15 shopping centres, helping to ease range anxiety and ramp up EV sales.
Cities poised to terminate vacant unit rebate
Past, present and would-be recipients bristle at suggestions that the rebate is a subsidy or a disincentive to improve the marketability of their properties.
Net positive energy office set to rise in Waterloo
In Waterloo, Ontario, workers are installing wells for a geo-exchange system that will heat and cool a new net positive energy office development.
Scotiabank shifts gears with new Digital Factory
The half-pixelated gear that hangs above the entryway symbolizes the output of Scotiabank’s new Digital Factory in Toronto.
City of Mississauga slashes electricity use at rink
The City of Mississauga has slashed the electricity use of the ice-making equipment at its Iceland Arena during winter and shoulder season operations.
Unit owners sell boutique buildings to developer
The sale of a property in midtown Toronto that closed in January marks Ontario’s first case of unit owners terminating a condo corporation by vote.



