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Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario announces freeze on apartment property taxes
The proposal includes a plan to freeze municipal property taxes on apartment buildings while undertaking a review to determine how the high taxes have affected housing affordability.
REMI Network
National Trust names winners of 2016 This Place Matters
Kentville, Nova Scotia and St. Catharines, Ontario have won the National Heritage Trust of Canada’s 2016 This Place Matters Competition.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Timbercreek launches investment microsite
Timbercreek Asset Management, a global asset manager specializing in real estate and other alternative asset classes, today announced it has introduced a new investment microsite, which provides educational information and valuable resources to financial professionals
REMI Network
Half of Canadians expected to shop Black Friday deals
Black Friday is coming, and about half of Canadians say they plan to do some online or cross-border shopping for U.S. retail deals.
REMI Network
True North Commercial REIT acquires new properties
True North Commercial REIT has purchased an Ontario-based industrial property, and has plans to close on an office building in Calgary.
CondoBusiness
Rebate for first-time home buyers in Ontario to rise
The Ontario government is proposing to raise the land transfer tax rebate available to eligible first-time home buyers to $4,000 starting in 2017. It’s a
REMI Network
New plans for mixed-use project Le Phare de Québec
Groupe Dallaire has unveiled new plans for Le Phare de Québec, a mixed-use development that will be built around a dynamic public square.
Construction Business
Surrey pool is world’s top engineering project
The Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre in Surrey, B.C. has been recognized as the world’s top structural engineering project. The Institution of Structural Engineers has presented
REMI Network
GTA industrial market Q3: report
There continues to be a limited amount of stock in the GTA industrial market, creating higher rents or causing tenants to seek their own space.
REMI Network
RioCan and Boardwalk team up on mixed-use tower
RioCan is partnering with Boardwalk to develop a mixed-use tower at RioCan's Brentwood Village Shopping Centre in Calgary.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
New study looks at IoT in multi-unit dwellings
The Continental Automated Buildings Association, through its Connected Home Council, has launched a collaborative research study entitled "Connected Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs) and Internet of Things (IoT)
Canadian Facility Management & Design
City of Trail receives infrastructure investments
Trail, B.C. has been attracting significant investments from senior levels of government and private sector investors, setting up a major boom for the town.
CondoBusiness
Toronto heritage building to be repurposed into mixed-use community hub
A heritage building on an historic downtown Toronto site will be preserved and re-purposed from an industrial facility into a mixed-use community hub.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario to open first mental health facility for female adult inmates
Ontario is working towards increasing mental health supports in the corrections system by creating the first mental health unit for female inmates.
REMI Network
Montreal to pump millions into facility upgrades
The City of Montreal is dedicating part of its $6.39-billion capital-works budget for 2017 to 2019 to aid to facilities, projects or programs in various boroughs.
CondoBusiness
Five per cent of new condo sales in the GTA made by foreign investors
According a survey from Urbanation Inc., five per cent of all GTA condo sales within projects currently in development are from foreign investors.
CondoBusiness
New condo sales in Toronto soar 73 per cent
There were a total of 6,677 new condo apartments sold across the GTA during Q3-2016, according to Urbanation Inc.’s recent market results.




