COVID-19
CondoBusiness
Tech aids condo compliance during COVID-19
ICC Property Management is using technology to digitally track its response to COVID-19 and enhance safety for residents and staff.
Construction Business
Construction faces pandemic challenges
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the construction industry offers optimism for economic recovery with jobsites allowed to remain operational.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario electricity prices flout sliding demand
Despite a steep drop in province-wide energy consumption due to COVID-19 triggered business shutdowns, many building owners/managers expect a more modest flow-through dip in operating costs.
Construction Business
VRCA joins call for construction cost relief program
VRCA is joining the Canadian Construction Association's call for a federal emergency COVID-19 Construction Cost Relief Program.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Rent delinquencies in April lower than expected
Despite calls for a rent strike by tenant groups in late-March due to COVID-19-induced financial woes, rent delinquencies in April weren't as high as expected according to CIBC’s deputy chief economist, Benjamin Tal.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Senior housing in the age of COVID-19
From Vancouver to Bobcaygeon, Ottawa to Montreal, facilities catering to seniors have been battling surging infection rates since COVID-19’s devastating path began. Even robust protocols don't seen to be enough to stop the deadly spread.
Design Quarterly
Responding to the coronavirus crisis
The COVID-19 crisis presents challenges for architects and AIBC has received feedback about how the profession should respond.
Canadian Property Management
Flood response to rely more on independent action
COVID-19 health protocol is sure to complicate flood response and cleanup in commercial and multi-residential buildings in the coming months, particularly if evacuation is required.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Traffic intensifies on migratory songbird flight path
Advocates for bird-friendly lighting practices and building design recommend some adjustments to the special lighting displays now popping up on the urban landscape.
REMI Network
Nova Scotia introduces new COVID-19 measures at long-term care homes
The provincial government has introduced new measures to protect long-term-care facility residents and staff from the spread of COVID-19.
REMI Network
New Brunswick creates pandemic task force
The New Brunswick government has established a pandemic task force to help combat COVID-19, to oversee the pandemic response for all aspects of the health-care system.
Canadian Property Management
Steering the journey back to business as usual
As property managers look to both industry associations and professional service providers for support to navigate COVID-19 upheaval, REMI Network is bringing the three groups together for webinar-based sharing of insight.
Canadian Property Management
Deferrals should address GST/HST remittances
Tax specialists are reminding commercial landlords that rent deferrals could have flow-through implications for required GST/HST remittances to the Canada Revenue Agency.
REMI Network
Montreal’s residential market on pause
COVID-19 is expected to push buyers and sellers in Montreal's residential market to the sidelines for now, rather than throw the market into turmoil.
Canadian Property Management
Significant turbulence upends Q1 outcomes
Office landlords could be focused on issues around rent deferrals and mechanisms for payment support well into Q2, while social distancing imperatives have accentuated somewhat diametrical trajectories for industrial and retail properties.
REMI Network
Ontario construction crews to work 24/7 on health care facilities
Construction work on new health care facilities in Ontario, including COVID-19 assessment centres, will now be a round-the-clock effort.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
LTB develops Urgent Hearing Motion form
The LTB has developed an Urgent Hearing Motion form for circumstances in which an eviction order is necessary due to serious cases of impaired safety or illegal acts during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
