Investment
Canadian Property Management
Canadian investors shop abroad for data centres
The United States continues to be the most prominent destination for outbound Canadian capital, but that trend was more muted than the historical norm during the first nine months of 2025.
Canadian Property Management
H&R shrinks retail holdings via pending sales
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust will offload most of its retail holdings and three office properties through$1.5-billion worth of pending sales to multiple unnamed buyers.
Canadian Property Management
Budget enticements devised to attract capital
Commercial real estate is a channel for some of the capital the Canadian government is strategizing to attract via new enticements unveiled in the 2025 federal budget.
Canadian Property Management
Large building retrofits designated for funding
The Canadian government's newly announced Build Communities Strong Fund includes a $6-billion stream for "regionally significant" projects that involve private sector investment.
CondoBusiness
Slumping new condo sales have ripple effect
A fix to revive slumping new condo sales will be tricky to execute in current market conditions, which have chased off investors in Toronto and Vancouver.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Residential REITs illustrate market dichotomy
Two residential real estate investment trusts (REITs) listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange are slated to go private.
Canadian Property Management
Primaris REIT to acquire Montreal regional mall
A $565-million deal will see Primaris REIT acquire Promenades St-Bruno, in suburban Montreal, from Cadillac Fairview Corporation.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate issuers feel hurricane maelstrom
Hurricanes assailed roughly half the real estate issuers in MSCI’s all country world index (ACWI) during the three years from 2022 to 2024, capturing about 10 per cent of their collective assets in some degree of the maelstrom.
Canadian Property Management
Prospective hotel purchasers chase supply
The average price per room jumped 18 per cent from the comparable period of 2024, even though year-over-year hotel trade volume dropped during the first half of 2025.
Canadian Property Management
Toronto set to adjust business licensing regime
An unfolding effort to simplify Toronto’s business licensing regime promises reduced paperwork and a more technologically proficient process, but comes with at least one new user fee.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian CRE universe reflects global trends
Canada’s universe of professionally managed real estate fell in value and nudged down as a proportion of global market share during 2024, but it retains its ranking as the ninth largest market that MSCI monitors.
Canadian Property Management
CRE prompts and sustains economic activity
Property management and commercial brokerage services generated more than $160 billion in spending and underpinned more than 406,000 full-time jobs across the Canadian economy last year.
Canadian Property Management
CPP Investments lends on data centre expansion
CPP Investments and Deutsch Bank will jointly provide $550 million in construction financing for a 54-megawatt hyperscale facility in Cambridge, Ontario.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
QuadReal boosts U.K. student housing holdings
QuadReal Property Group has expended more than ₤500 million (CAD $915 million) to acquire eight purpose-built student apartment buildings in the United Kingdom.
Canadian Property Management
Toronto Ritz-Carlton gets new owners
Pacific Reach and Dilawri Group have jointly acquired the Toronto Ritz-Carlton hotel with plans to upgrade some of the luxury amenities at the 14-year-old downtown venue.
Canadian Property Management
Climate response investment promises paybacks
With science offering up assurance that climate response will be a long-term and intensifying societal need, analysts suggest this could be a lucrative time to get into a surging market.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian debt market lures U.S. CRE issuers
Morningstar DBRS is predicting an uptick in American commercial real estate companies issuing maple bonds in the Canadian debt market.
