Energy management and innovation could be a key enabler and sustainable competitive edge for data centre development and related economic growth tied to smart technologies and artificial intelligence.

Tourism promoters recently pitched Canada as a destination for investment returns at MIPIM, the international gathering of property professionals occurring annually in Cannes, France.

The financial services sector provides dual momentum for Canada’s resurgent office market — as a tenant ramping up demand for space;, and as a lender loosening access to capital.

Untenable pro formas, skittish lenders and reluctant buyers are intertwined features of a condominium market collapse destined to further complicate Canada’s affordable housing shortage.

Canadian lenders may be reassessing the urgency of decarbonization, but they still express enthusiasm for the sustainable assets and impact investments that appear to be losing cachet in the United States.

Loan conditions are expected to be onerous for residential condominium developments again in 2025, following a year when many lenders pulled back on construction financing.