Investment
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.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate suffers uneven COVID-19 fallout
Market analysts foresee a varying degree of short-term and long-term impacts among real estate asset types, as well as supply chain interruptions that could slow activity at construction sites and in the booming distribution/warehouse sector.
Canadian Property Management
Proptech qualifies for new Quebec tax credit
The tax credit applies on purchases of computer hardware, management software or manufacturing/processing equipment made before January 1, 2025.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
REITs boast 2019 gains on TSX Venture Exchange
Venture 50 accolades are awarded based on three equally weighted criteria for one-year gains in share price, trading volume and market capitalization.
Canadian Property Management
Strong office rent growth foreseen for Toronto
That follows double-digit increases last year when Toronto was dubbed one of the "stand out performers" among major global cities, along with Boston and San Francisco.
Canadian Property Management
Low-carbon earners scarce in listed real estate
Technically, three real estate entities are ranked in the 2020 Clean200 list of publicly traded companies, but just two of them have conventional commercial real estate portfolios.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Purpose-built rental drives U.S. MURB market
A new report from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies explores the condition of rental housing stock, the demographics of tenant households, market dynamics and the erosion of affordability.




