Investment
Canadian Property Management
Fourth generation takes helm at Hill Companies
Rosanne Hill Blaisdell and Matthew Hill appointed to new leadership roles at 119-year-old real estate and diversified family business, headquartered in Regina.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Blame tactics scapegoat multifamily investors
Policy makers could could further undermine rental housing supply and affordability prospects if market interventions divert institutional capital elsewhere.
Canadian Property Management
Six office properties to pad Allied portfolio
The $794-million deal with Choice Properties REIT will add more than 1.2 million square feet of space in downtown Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver to Allied Properties REIT's portfolio.
Canadian Property Management
Ottawa office complex jumpstarts value-add fund
Crown Realty Partners has acquired a four-building office complex and campus with potential for infill residential development, situated along Ottawa’s Queensway corridor.
Canadian Property Management
Sustained industrial rent growth foreseen
Investors are expressing confidence in sustained industrial rent growth, as new supply is not expected to catch up with rampant demand any time soon.
Canadian Property Management
Andrew Tong joins Concert Properties c-suite
Andrew Tong has been promoted to the newly created position of chief investment officer for Concert Real Estate Corporation and Concert Properties Ltd.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily rent slippage deemed temporary blip
Multifamily assets posted the largest year-over-year decline in net operating income among the four major sectors in the Canada Annual Property Index, while delivering a 7 per cent total return on investment for 2021.
Canadian Property Management
Soaring industrial gains buoy investment returns
A 7.9 per cent total return across 2,367 directly held real estate assets in the Canada Property Index represents a 12 per cent improvement over 2020.
Canadian Property Management
Q4 2021 sees investors broaden search for yields
Low yields on industrial and multifamily properties had more investors turning to office, retail and alternative asset classes in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Canadian Property Management
StorageVault Canada graduates to the TSX
StorageVault Canada's common shares and debentures began trading on the TSX on January 26.
Canadian Property Management
Trio of transactions refines REIT’s portfolio
Skyline Commercial REIT pockets $297 million and hands over 24 industrial buildings in three separate deals, occurring over just two business days.
Canadian Property Management
Nexus rebrand to reflect REIT’s portfolio focus
Nexus Real Estate Investment Trust plans to rebrand as Nexus Industrial REIT to better reflect its portfolio focus.
Canadian Property Management
Office markets recover lost ground
After six consecutive quarters of declining occupancy, some of Canada’s office markets began to recover lost ground in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Canadian Property Management
Industrial rental rates continue upward climb
Colliers Canada's Q4 2021 snapshot of 12 metropolitan areas finds industrial vacancy rates below 1 per cent in five markets, and between 1 and 5.4 per cent in the seven others.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario invests in new disinfectant wipes facility
The government is pledging more than $1.2 million towards Empack Spraytech's new production facility in Barrie, Ont.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate lending set to ramp up in 2022
More than two-thirds of Canadian lenders participating in CBRE’s recent annual survey indicated plans to increase allocations to real estate, equating to an estimated 10 to 20 per cent boost in availability of capital.
Canadian Property Management
Climate change and ESG pervade CRE projections
Climate change is more ominous than the spectre of regulations and taxes for a small majority of commercial real estate leaders responding to REALPAC’s recent survey of their expectations for the next decade.
