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Enforcing the governing documents
How can a property manager or board member understand what steps to take when enforcing the governing documents?
Canadian Property Management
Tech finds highly competitive options in Canada
Eight Canadian cities rank among the top 50 North American markets for fostering tech employment, with Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, Waterloo Region and Calgary all placed in the top half of the list.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
CRE industry reveals data-driven demands
Canada’s top commercial real estate players have identified the growing importance of visualizing indoor building activities in real time as the use of space becomes less predictable and tenant needs evolve.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Probing the impact of renos on dementia patients
The quality of life awaiting future residents within the country’s institutional-like care facilities is facing scrutiny as researchers closely examine how these spaces are being reimagined for the better.
CondoBusiness
Actuaries garner new insight into condo finances
The Canadian Institute of Actuaries’ latest insight statement on the longevity of condo infrastructure explores several risks.
Canadian Property Management
Trophy office towers widening gap from the pack
Trophy office towers could be anchored atop the market for the long term as the past decade’s wave of new building subsides and little further development is anticipated.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Hospitality program transforms office portfolio
Over the next three months, Canderel will begin rolling out a workplace hospitality program called Okkto across its buildings.
Canadian Property Management
Office building values still trending downward
Appraisers generally expect office building values to keep slipping over the course of 2023 as a range of factors undermine cash flow, push up cap rates and make investors skittish.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Archival preservation facility is a net-zero first
Library and Archives Canada’s new preservation storage facility opened as the first net-zero carbon archival centre in the Americas,
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily asset values hold steady
Multifamily asset values appear to be holding steady, but transaction volume plummeted in the first quarter of 2023.
CondoBusiness
Tornado research uncovers risks for homeowners
Canada’s tornado risk is more widespread than once thought, according to a growing body of research that, for the first time, tracks the occurrence and aftermath facing property owners across the country.
CondoBusiness
Ontario awaits patchy debut of discount power
Most condominium corporations and rental housing landlords will need to make capital investments in energy storage to realize the benefits of Ontario's ultra-low overnight electricity rate.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Women execs in FM share recruitment insight
A discussion earlier this year gleaned perspectives from women executives on how they promote the FM industry.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Cooling deemed key amenity for Ontario renters
Conceptually, the proposed rules establish air conditioning as a protected option that tenants cannot be prevented from obtaining rather than an essential that landlords would be compelled to supply.
CondoBusiness
Preventing title and mortgage fraud
How do condo owners protect themselves and their biggest investment from being victims of title fraud or mortgage fraud?
Canadian Property Management
CRE awaits spinoffs of new provincial spending
Quebec and Ontario have announced investment incentives that could have implications for land deals and/or technologies and products that commercial real estate uses.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily remains favoured investment asset
Industry analysts cite Canada’s demographic trends and seemingly chronic housing supply-demand imbalance as fundamentals that should drive robust returns on new purpose-built rental projects.