CPP Investments is one of five pension plan managers on the list, along with three global insurance/asset management firms and two sovereign wealth funds.

Securities regulators wish to confirm that the representations registrants are making about the incorporation of ESG principles in their investment decision-making processes are consistent with their actual policies and procedures.

Of the 21 transactions totalling approximately $197 million in value during the first quarter of 2021, seven properties were sold for redevelopment or conversion to other uses and three were distressed sales.

Industrial assets and development land accounted for more than 50 per cent of investment sales value in Q1 2021 with trade activity in both sectors far outpacing deal-making in the pre-pandemic months of 2020.

Vestcor Inc., the New Brunswick public sector pension plan administrator, has acquired a minority interest in Crown Realty Partners.

Nexus REIT has entered agreements to acquire five single-tenant industrial buildings, which would add 609,000 square feet of gross leasable area to its portfolio.

COVID-19 has intensified pressure to support physical, social and emotional well-being within the built environment, but many investors, owners and managers were already embracing healthy building principles ahead of pandemic-triggered challenges.

Together, the two partners forming GID Industrial have 19 million square feet of industrial inventory in 15 American markets.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has rolled its holdings in energy, resources, power and renewables into a newly dubbed sustainable energy group with approximately $18 billion in assets.

BentallGreenOak has acquired Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management from the Carlyle Group.

Reflecting on a year in which the pandemic unsettled market fundamentals to the east and to the west, Calgary-based analysts focus more on tangential circumstances than the COVID-19 outbreak itself.

Canadian-controlled private corporations are eligible for refundable tax credits of up to $90,000 for building investments in southwest, eastern and northern Ontario.

Niagara Falls, and Jasper are the two Canadian entrants on a largely European and American list of locales associated with celebrated global attractions.

Avison Young and Devencore will come together under the Avison Young banner to deliver commercial real estate brokerage and advisory services.

An influx of new office supply was always expected to shake up the status quo in the downtown Toronto market given that approximately two-thirds of the 8+ million square feet of space currently under construction is already preleased.

Canadian commercial real estate assets are comparatively less exposed to the dire physical threats that extreme weather poses or has already served up in other global regions.

Tricon Residential announced it has reached an agreement with two institutional investors to invest in its portfolio U.S. apartments.