Financial Management
Canadian Property Management
Investment returns show slipping values in 2023
Canadian investment returns for 2023 show retail improvement, industrial deceleration and continuing office value decline, as capital loss balances out income growth for a flat total return.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
The push for more purpose-built rental housing
Strong rental demand continued to outpace supply in 2023 resulting in less available purpose-built rental apartments and lower affordability, according to new report from CMHC.
CondoBusiness
Pushing for a workplace culture shift
Condo managers are familiar with hostile work environments, but cases of harassment and intimidation, and even violence, have reportedly increased due to a confluence of factors.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Clamping down on renovictions
Hamilton will soon be the first city in Ontario to introduce a renoviction bylaw forcing landlords to obtain a licence prior to issuing an N-13
CondoBusiness
Overhauling reserve funds in Ontario
As the landscape of aging condos continues evolving, the need for adequate reserve funds to pay for these repairs assumes greater importance.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Uncertainty leads to rising costs
The biggest challenge for many real estate owners in 2024 will be finding affordable insurance coverage to protect their buildings.
CondoBusiness
What’s next for condominium insurance?
Timely maintenance and improvements will play an important role in securing favourable coverage terms and avoiding delays in the renewal process.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Interest rates subdue multifamily developers
Fallout from higher interest rates may continue to subdue multifamily development, but lenders express more confidence in prospects for new purpose-built rental and high-rise condominium projects next year.
Canadian Property Management
Lenders set to curtail office exposure in 2024
Lenders generally expect to curtail office exposure while increasing overall allocations to Canadian real estate in 2024, findings from CBRE Canada's annual survey reveal.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
The road to more rental housing
Canada's fall economic update includes steps to crack down on short-term rentals and billions in financing toward rental housing construction.
Canadian Property Management
Commercial ratepayers carry heftier tax share
Commercial ratepayers took on a larger share of the property tax burden in eight of 11 large Canadian cities this year, with 2023 commercial tax rates more than tripling residential tax rates in six of those cities.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Conversion momentum draws on combo of drivers
Replicating Calgary’s nascent office-to-residential conversion momentum in other markets will likely depend on the same combination of weak office values, strong housing demand and generous incentives.
Canadian Property Management
Distressed asset sales remain a steady fraction
Distressed asset sales were a nominal and relatively consistent fraction of the Canadian commercial investment property market in the first half of 2023.
Canadian Property Management
Promises aplenty ahead of Manitoba election
Manitobans are hearing promises aplenty as political parties offer up tax cuts, rate freezes and incentive programs ahead of the provincial election, set for October 3.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario keeps clinging to 2016 market values
The recent regulation to postpone Ontario's property reassessment for another year stretches the assessment cycle to double its originally intended time span.
Canadian Property Management
Toronto strives to find more cash
Commercial properties are central to Toronto’s efforts to find more cash as the city government considers how to address massive budget shortfalls projected for 2024 and into the future.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Workplace macro trends facing facility managers
The tension between employees’ desire to work fluidly and the need for predictability within a business is a key factor affecting workplaces around the world.


















