Real Estate
REMI Network
Foreign investors attuned to currency swing
Recent MSCI analysis suggests outsiders can suffer a more painful hit or enjoy a better recovery from a geopolitical shock, depending on their timing and the strength of their domestic currency.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
US multifamily deals top office again in 2018
Canadian investors acquired USD $9.8 billion worth of multifamily properties in the United States last year, but that's a fairly small portion of the sector's USD $167.5 billion transaction volume.
Canadian Property Management
Brookfield initiates substantial issuer bids
The Brookfield Property Partners offer contemplates a price in the range of $19 to $21 per unit/share and invites prospective vendors to submit tenders by March 25th.
Canadian Property Management
Some drag in buoyant 2018 investment returns
A surging industrial sector helped to counterbalance slipping retail values and push up 2018 investment returns on Canadian commercial real estate.
CondoBusiness
Real estate leaders tapped for Alate advisory board
Alate Partners has formed an advisory board of real estate developers, owners and operators to help identify promising smart real estate solutions.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily assets post value increase in 2018
Residential was the only sector that could boast capital growth in every market where institutional investors represented in the Canada Property Index hold properties.
CondoBusiness
GTA condo sales fell 9.9 per cent in Q4-2018
According to the TREB, there were 5,191 condominium apartment sales in the fourth quarter of 2018, a decline of 9.9 per cent compared to Q4-2017.
Canadian Property Management
Mixed uses to ease into suburban office parks
The new policy would give developers a basis to challenge any local government's veto of non-employment land uses in suburban office parks.
REMI Network
India and China dominate city momentum index
Socio-economic and real estate market trends are analyzed to gauge the pace at which cities are attracting people, companies and capital.
CondoBusiness
Canderel appoints Brett Miller as CEO
The Canderel Group of Companies has appointed 30-year industry veteran Brett Miller as chief executive officer, effective February 18, 2019.
CondoBusiness
$700-mil mixed-use development set for Montreal
Devimco Immobilier and partners have joined to develop MAESTRIA, the largest mixed-use real estate project in Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles.
Canadian Property Management
CRE gender pay gap widens at mid-career
A 2018 Women in CRE Survey found that 65 per cent of respondents were made aware of being paid less than a male counterpart at some point in their career. Of those, 75 per cent noted it happened at least two times.
CondoBusiness
National home sales projected to fall by year’s end
CREA's revised national forecast for home sales activity for 2018 and 2019 finds sales are expected to fall by 9.8 per cent to 462,900 units this year.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Developers weigh in on market drivers
Collectively, the 400+ C-suite and senior executives see more opportunity than threat in technological advancements, social change and a less economically stratified society.
Canadian Property Management
REALPAC calls for smoothing of tax inequities
An illogical quirk in the apportionment of business education tax continues to undermine competitiveness for some of Ontario's major cities, advocates for the commercial real estate sector maintain.
Canadian Property Management
Hurricane Florence could swamp asset values
REITs hold more than 5,500 properties in the area flagged for storm surge and other severe weather fallout.
Canadian Property Management
ESG performance earns Triovest global standing
Triovest achieved the best GRESB score, 88 out of 100 possible points, in its peer group of non-listed, diversified office/industrial portfolios.
