Investment
REMI Network
Q2 leaves most downtown office markets unscathed
Second quarter vacancy rates and rent trends provide a first look at Canadian commercial real estate markets during widespread COVID-19-triggered business shutdowns.
REMI Network
Toronto to refine investment decision process
Proposed policy changes would embed United Nations sustainable development goals in ESG criteria and adjust parameters for allocations to real assets.
Canadian Property Management
Office-using sectors show relative resilience
There is plenty of uncertainty and little consensus on the economic outlook for Canada and the United States. It is becoming clear that it will not be a V-shaped recovery, and it is more likely to be uneven and prolonged.
Canadian Property Management
Retail landlords absorb and counter economic hit
Results of a wide-ranging survey show many major Canadian commercial real estate players braced for the erosion of consumer confidence, tenant solvency and their own investment returns.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Equinix stretches its Canadian digital reach
The $1.04 billion deal will see Equinix acquire 13 data centres and more than 600 Bell customers from BCE Inc.
Canadian Property Management
Slate Office REIT advances new CEO from within
Steve Hodgson has been named chief executive officer after serving as chief operating officer and holding a range of key responsibilities since joining the company in 2014.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Canadian hotel sector assumes survival mode
Although plummeting occupancy appears to have bottomed out and crept back up marginally, Canadian hotels, on average, were less than 20 per cent full as May began.
REMI Network
Q4 overflow spurs Montreal investment deal volume
Sales value topped $2 billion for the fourth consecutive quarter, albeit at a lower total than was achieved in the second to fourth quarters of 2019.
Canadian Property Management
Solid pre-pandemic fundamentals buttress market
Thus far, in most markets, there’s been no spurt of office sublets or rent discounts that conventionally signify an economic downturn, but there has been a flurry of conjecture about the forces COVID-19 may have unleashed.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Pension fund watchdog tuned to real estate arms
Board trustees for some of Canada’s most prominent commercial real estate portfolios are underscoring the obligations owed to on-site building services personnel during the COVID-19 crisis.
Canadian Property Management
Data centres gain traffic missing from highways
At least 84 Canadian commercial buildings have been abuzz during protracted COVID-19-related business shutdowns. They house the data centres that have literally underpinned the continued functioning of the economy.
Canadian Property Management
Q1 stats reflect first quintile GTA investment
Arguably, Q1 stats more accurately reflect the first quintile of 2020 activity since COVID-19 skittishness placed a pause on the market in early March.
Canadian Property Management
Regulators plumb mortgage loan liquidity
COVID-19-related pressure for rent deferrals begets landlords' needs for loan concessions and heightened uncertainty for lenders.
CondoBusiness
Real estate gains allure as migration portal
Henley & Partners has charted a first quarter pickup in investment programs that offer a gateway to residence in Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, and projects a growing appetite for similar opportunities elsewhere in the European Union.
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.
Canadian Property Management
Favoured lease horizons vary with economy
Commercial landlords may be looking differently at the mix of lease horizons in their buildings and across their portfolios than they did a few weeks ago.
Canadian Property Management
Property funds possess stabilizing mechanisms
REALPAC’s recent survey of 15 Canadian open-end real estate funds offers insight into when and why fund administrators would suspend the ability for investors to redeem their holdings.
