A new housing project in Victoria, B.C., which was previously proposed as a condominium building, will now be a 44-unit boutique rental property.

Rising in Toronto’s opulent Yorkville neighbourhood is Two St. Thomas, a joint venture between Bentall Kennedy and KingSett Capital. The $130-million 26-storey tower made of glass, stone, wood and copper is the picture of modern sophistication, as imagined by Hariri Pontarini Architects.

The Times Colonist Building in Victoria, B.C. will be restored and renovated into an urban campus-style mixed-use environment.

Today’s generation of new apartment buildings looks nothing like its dated predecessors. Built to emulate high-end condominiums but with the services and amenities of upscale

Purpose-built rental housing will quadruple – up to 20,000 additional homes over the next ten years.

Starlight Investments announced it has completed the forward purchase of a Hamilton luxury rental property located at 140 Main Street West.

On March 31, 2017, representatives from Bentall Kennedy and KingSett Capital gathered to celebrate the completion of the concrete structure of Two St. Thomas, Yorkville’s newest purpose-built luxury rental development.

Preventing a full-blown housing-affordability crisis in the Greater Toronto Area will require GTA-specific policies aimed at increasing the supply of purpose-built rental units, finds a

Toronto real estate developer Camrost-Felcorp announced it will be welcoming residents into 101 St. Clair as early as this summer. The 229-suite luxury rental building is part of an award-winning master-planned community called Imperial Village, located at Avenue Road & St. Clair.

Brivia Group and Gansu Tianqing Real Estate Group have announced that they have begun construction on StanBrooke, a 19-storey high-end rental tower in downtown Montreal.

A new report from Urbanation indicates the GTA rental market is in healthy shape, with tightened conditions due to fewer completions and less turnover.

All 18 transactions in the first half of 2016 were off-market deals, in which purchasers made unbidden offers to undeclared vendors and convinced them to sell.

Morguard's Director of Research Keith Reading provides advance insights into Q1 market conditions, noting that things continue to look optimistic for the purpose-built rental scene.