Multi-Unit Residential
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Reinvesting in Toronto’s aging rental towers
The Tower Renewal Project is a program to drive broad environmental, social, economic, and cultural change by improving Toronto's concrete apartment towers and the neighbourhoods that surround them. Home to a million people across the GTA, now is the time to reinvest in these vertical communities that have huge potential.
CondoBusiness
West Coast condos to rise on rare waterfront site
Concert Properties is set to launch Voda, the first of four condos that will be built on one of downtown Vancouver's last parcels of waterfront property.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Addressing Ontario’s affordable housing crisis
Ontario’s affordable housing wait list continued to swell in 2014 with more than 3,600 applying for rent-geared-to-income (RGI) accommodations.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Apartment transactions up versus Q1 last year
Apartment transactions totaling $328 million contributed12 per cent to the overall first quarter dollar volume, with 37 properties trading in excess of $1 million.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Toronto’s condo market is more renter friendly
A new report by Urbanation suggests Toronto’s condo market is more renter friendly due to an influx of completed condos and the rise of new purpose-built rental apartments.
CondoBusiness
East United project embraces eclectic locale
A new condo development called East United will bridge than more just the two parallel streets in spans. It will bridge the eclectic influences of the surrounding Corktown and St. Lawrence Market neighbourhoods by combining new, heritage and industrial elements in a five-storey podium, 21-storey tower and six townhouses.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
New apartment construction surges in Canada
Balliol Park, located on Davisville Road between Yonge Street and Mt Pleasant, is just one of Toronto’s new purpose-built apartment projects currently under construction.
CondoBusiness
Canary Park condos prepared for Pan Am Games
The Canary Park condos are nearly ready to be turned over to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games organizers for fit-up for the athletes, coaches
Canadian Apartment Magazine
The rise of the luxury rental
These days, more and more Canadians are seeking condo-quality accommodations without the hassle of ownership.
CondoBusiness
GTA housing market faces structural challenges
A weak diversity of housing choice, marked by the steady stream of ever-shrinking condo units, is one of three structural challenges facing the GTA housing
Canadian Apartment Magazine
A multi-residential year in review
With the arrival of 2015, it’s fair to say that the real estate market is facing some uncertainty. Here are highlights from Avison Young's market report.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Latent defects and the law
When buying apartment buildings of older stock, buyers should beware of latent defects and know their rights within the law.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Purpose-built rental gains economic viability
A developer’s instincts for untapped demand underpin plans for new purpose-built rental housing in midtown Toronto. The proposed luxury building near the intersection of Yonge
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Conversions fuel multifamily trend
Station on Whyte, a residential complex in Edmonton, is an example of an emerging trend in real estate that sees full condo-to-apartment building conversions on the rise in 2014.
CondoBusiness
A flurry of red-tagged emergency generators
When last winter’s ice storm walloped Toronto days before Christmas and knocked out power in parts of the city for upwards of a week, it
CondoBusiness
Housing market modestly overvalued: CMHC
Apart from modest overvaluation — and a cautionary note about overbuilding in Montreal and Toronto — Canada’s housing markets largely align with underlying demographic and
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Growing demand for family-friendly apartments
According to statistics from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, fewer than 30 per cent of all rental apartment units in downtown Toronto offer family-friendly apartments. By contrast, in neighbouring Mississauga more than 60 per cent of rental units provide two or more bedrooms.



