Investment
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Student and seniors housing prospects in favour
A survey of top executives in the student and seniors housing sectors finds most are planning to expand their portfolios in 2023 through acquisitions and new development.
Canadian Property Management
Lender confidence varies by CRE asset class
Logistics warehouses, multifamily rental buildings, data centres and life sciences labs are tapped as favoured assets in CBRE Canada’s newly released survey of lenders' sentiment.
CondoBusiness
Condo project financing confronts new math
More cautious criteria for condo project financing could upend some development pro formas and potentially constrain housing starts in the coming months.
Canadian Property Management
Paul Morassutti appointed CBRE Canada chairman
A member of CBRE’s executive management committee, Morassutti has most recently served as head of the firm's valuation and advisory services.
Canadian Property Management
Push to curb inflation has CRE ramifications
Transaction volume had been surpassing pre-pandemic levels until the steepest and most rapid rise in interest rates thus far this century undermined that momentum.
Construction Business
Infrastructure investment a go-to in downturn
For public partners, P3s are a means to transfer risk. For the private sector, infrastructure’s recession-proof profile dovetails with expectations for a prolonged building spree.
Canadian Property Management
Robust yields ongoing for industrial landlords
Market analysts and asset managers express confidence that the industrial sector will be buoyant into the future despite current global economic uncertainty.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Seniors housing portfolio trades
H & H Total Care Services has sold an eight-building seniors housing portfolio in western Canada for more than $300 million.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Housing supply-demand imbalance set to persist
Recent CMHC analysis concludes that approximately 3.5 million additional dwelling units are needed to meet demand and pull prices back into closer alignment with purchasers’ and tenants’ incomes.
Canadian Property Management
Canada gains weight in global property index
Canada contributed to an 8.5 per cent or USD $900 billion expansion of the professionally managed real estate market last year across 37 countries MSCI analyzed.
Canadian Property Management
Slate partners with Nova Scotia energy firm
Slate Asset Management has acquired what's described as a "significant minority stake" in Halifax-based Roswall Development Inc.
Canadian Property Management
REIT acquires four Alberta business parks
The $309-million deal is the largest yet for Skyline Industrial REIT, securing it 16 buildings and nearly 130 acres of land in Calgary and Edmonton.
Canadian Property Management
CRE measures up as Canadian economic driver
A new report estimates commercial real estate made a $148.4 billion total contribution to Canada’s GDP last year, when factoring its direct, indirect and induced impacts.
Canadian Property Management
Rising interest rates alter slant on CRE values
Rising interest rates have Canadian commercial real estate players adjusting their expectations about cap rates and internal rates of return.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Offshore single-family rental REITs sidelined
A two-year prohibition on foreign investors acquiring single residential dwellings, duplexes or triplexes is set to begin January 1, 2023.
Canadian Property Management
GTHA lab space scarcity portends opportunity
Market analysts see a vibrant niche of real estate investment potential in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, where the vacancy rate for lab space is currently 0.2 per cent.
Canadian Property Management
Food-anchored retail tops CRE investment menu
Food-anchored retail plazas remain a staple on the commercial real estate menu, again emerging as the preferred asset type in Altus Group’s survey of Canadian investment trends in Q2.
