Industry News
Canadian Property Management
Large electricity customers step into the 2020s
Cost allocation factors for enrollees in Ontario's Industrial Conservation Initiative have been based on energy use in pre-pandemic July 2019. That will be updated for a new 12-month billing period beginning July 1.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario Liberals announce plan to bring back rent control
The Ontario Liberal party announced it intends to introduce a single rent control system across the province should it win the upcoming provincial election.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
CAPREIT acquires Red Deer housing community
CAPREIT announced it has acquired a manufactured housing community in Red Deer, Alberta, for a purchase price of $16.5 million.
CondoBusiness
Nova Scotia quashes property tax surcharge
The Nova Scotia government has cancelled plans to impose a property tax surcharge on non-resident home and cottage owners less than two weeks after enacting legislation to do so.
REMI Network
Priced-out buyers flock to condos in Montreal area
Sales of condos and plexes in the Greater Montreal Area remained at sustained levels during April, despite a 17 percent decline for single-family homes.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Rodenticides nixed for B.C. mice and rat control
British Columbia is poised to make a temporary ban on rodenticides for mice and rat control permanent within commercial and residential properties.
REMI Network
AKRA will be a residential retreat near Yonge and Eglinton
Despite the growing hustle and bustle of Midtown Toronto, a new 22-storey condo called AKRA promises to be a retreat in the sky, just a few blocks north of the busy intersection of Yonge and Eglinton.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
More than 800 patios set to bloom in Toronto
A third season of the CaféTO program kicks off in May, bringing outdoor patios to sidewalks and curb lanes, and live music in select locations.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
More than 800 patios set to bloom in Toronto
A third season of the CaféTO program kicks off in May, bringing outdoor patios to sidewalks and curb lanes, and live music in select locations.
REMI Network
Ontario invests in public sector co-working spaces
The government is implementing touchdown co-working spaces for Ontario Public Service employees and optimizing more government-owned offices.
REMI Network
New critical care tower coming to Sunnybrook
Plans for a new critical care tower at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre will bring the hospital’s critical care units together under one roof.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
First-time positions anchor accessibility agenda
Stephanie Cadieux and Michael Gottheil begin respective terms as Canada's first Chief Accessibility Officer and Accessibility Commissioner to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
More EV chargers coming to Canada’s multi-res properties
The Government of Canada announced plans to invest $899,000 toward the installation 188 EV chargers at Broadstreet Properties multi-residential buildings.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
The impacts of BC’s increased housing supply
The British Columbia Real Estate Association has released a report estimating the potential impacts of increased housing supply on BC's housing market.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily cap rate movement unremarkable in Q1
Vancouver is the rare exception where market analysts project multifamily cap rates will rise this spring, but that's in the context of continuing exceptionally low rates.
Construction Business
Calgary names downtown conversion projects
The City of Calgary has named the first three successful applicants to the Downtown Calgary Development Incentive Program.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Security deposit reimbursement set to go digital
A proposed amendment to Alberta's Residential Tenancies Act would open options to return tenants' security deposits and related documentation through electronic channels.


















