A just-released Spring 2017 overview of 23 markets across Canada shows an upward trend in British Columbia and Ontario with modest declines in Alberta and Atlantic Canada.

Ontario passed home inspection legislation that will regulate one of few currently unregulated professionals that have a role in real estate transactions.

An analysis of 62 companies reporting portfolios of at least 10 million square feet to Canadian Property Management's 2017 Who's Who in Canadian Real Estate survey finds two female CEOs, three COOs and 17 CFOs.

Canadian brokerage Casalova and Dream Maker Developments are the first in Canada to offer a digital purchase option for pre-construction condos.

The 2017 federal budget released last week allocates funds to shedding light on blind spots in national housing data.

The market demand for co-working space in Toronto is relatively new, but has been growing steadily over the past 10 years, spurring an increase in supply.

Among identified trends, forecasters see pension funds and other institutional investors kicking off a construction boom. This responds to a growing demand for new purpose-built rental and the lack of existing institutional-grade product in the marketplace.

A goal to attract more institutional investment in the United Kingdom's rental housing sector aligns with in-progress efforts to forge eight larger asset pools from the country's 89 local government pension funds.

The Toronto Urban Land Institute’s Women's Leadership Initiative is currently accepting nominations for its 2017 Championship Team.

Top strategists for institutional investors hailed the residential sector's ballast qualities, particularly in a year when office values declined and the Calgary and Edmonton markets suffered a loss on investment.

Annual results of the REALPAC/IPD Canada Quarterly Property Index, released late last week, reveal a year of below-average performance for index participants' directly held standing assets.

Skill shortages are more select in other Canadian business sectors, while real estate employers report they are pressed to fill some of the industry's key job functions, including: commercial property manager; condominium manager; building operator; and commercial leasing agent.

The founding partners of the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario have acquired a 50 per cent interest in Cadillac Fairview's Vancouver portfolio.

The number of Americans browsing for Canadian properties spiked following the U.S. election last fall, and real estate advisors don’t expect this increased interest to abate any time soon as President Donald Trump takes office today.

The newly released textbook packages universal principles and domestic context into one 500+-page compendium devised to impart a grounding in real estate fundamentals, transactions and the multidisciplinary oversight of income properties.

Recent guidance from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada sets out 39 indicators that should prompt parties involved in facilitating real estate deals to contemplate purchasers' or vendors' motives.

Hong Kong is firmly entrenched atop JLL's global premium office rent rankings with key occupancy costs pegged at USD $302 per square foot, more than 50 per cent higher than the next highest rate of USD $197 in London's West End.