Lower oil prices, shrinking availability of office space and urban intensification are a few big factors affecting various office markets across Canada.

With a few notable exceptions, cap rates remained stable or declined for most property types and classes in Canada's major real estate markets during the first half of 2015.

Evton Capital Partners has sold three class-B office buildings on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto to a pension plan backed buyer.

Allied Properties is set to acquire the retail and office component of 560 King Street West in Toronto for $28 million.

ASHRAE says new research suggesting its thermal comfort standard relies on a gender-biased model is an incorrect interpretation.

Telus will issue $225 million in green bonds to investors that are willing to help finance the completion of its new Vancouver headquarters.

Office marketing tools of the future will immerse users in new or non-existent environments, offering them the chance to virtually control a presale asset.

The vacancy in Calgary’s office market has risen more than two per cent from Q1 2015, moving from 10.67 to 12.75 per cent in the Q2.

The suburban office market outperformed the downtown and midtown markets in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in the last quarter.

Downtown Montreal experienced a 0.4-per-cent decline in the office vacancy rate in Q2 from Q1, according to a recent Colliers report.

After a decade of declining vacancies in office buildings, Saskatoon’s downtown office vacancy increased by 50,000 square feet in Q2, reports Colliers.

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Vacancy rates among Class A and B office buildings in Ottawa have continued to increase over the past six months to almost 6.5 per cent.

Mercury Court, a three-storey office building with ground floor retail in the trendy ByWard Market of Ottawa, has been sold for $22 million.

Although longstanding landmarks in the Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver skylines now command average rents 18 per cent higher than less iconic competition can muster, real estate analysts predict an emergent tenants' market will alter that picture.

The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) reported today a year-over-year increase in the amount of commercial space, measured in square feet, leased in Q2-2015.

Ivanhoé Cambridge and Callahan Capital Properties are set to buy four high-grade office buildings situated across the United States.