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.

Real estate analysts point to burgeoning momentum in Canada’s strong research institutions, increasing calls for domestic production capacity and the STEM job creation engine.

Product and service suppliers to the property and facilities management sector are among eight publicly listed Canadian companies ranked for highest global revenues tied to low-carbon business activities.

Cap rates trended upwards for downtown office, hotels and most retail categories during the fourth quarter of 2020, while compressing further for industrial and low-rise multifamily properties.

A ten-year run of capital growth abruptly reversed, resulting in a 7.8 per cent loss of value across the 2,356 assets that the 44 portfolios represented in the Canada Annual Property Index hold.