Vancouver
REMI Network
UBC ditching single-use coffee cups, plastic food ware
UBC Vancouver will soon have less garbage to clean up across its campus.
REMI Network
Vancouver adopts new Rain City Strategy
Vancouver recently approved an ambitious green rainwater infrastructure initiative called the Rain City Strategy.
REMI Network
Retail vacancy rates reach historical low
The Canadian retail market remains robust according to JLL's Mid-Year Retail Outlook.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Gen Z friendly cities foster a rising cohort
The study assesses and scores 110 prominent international cities on 22 indicators deemed to support and/or influence the age cohort born between 1997 and 2012.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Tourism momentum tests Toronto and Vancouver
A new index of tourism-related economic development potential in 49 global markets plots Toronto and Vancouver among nine cities that are experiencing pressure from a growing influx of leisure attraction seekers.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian cities fertile for tech job growth
The rankings reflect CBRE's assessment of each market's competitive appeal based on 13 variously weighted indicators that collectively present a picture of employment trends and other factors helping to attract and sustain a tech labour force.
REMI Network
Ottawa emerges as luxury real estate hot spot: report
The report provides an outlook for major Canadian luxury markets such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, and Muskoka & Collingwood.
Canadian Property Management
Blackstone eyes Bentall Centre for the long term
Vancouver's iconic Bentall Centre is set to have prominent new ownership.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Deloitte Canada to be sole tenant of Spaces Granville
Deloitte Canada recently reached an agreement to become the sole tenant of Spaces Granville, the new Vancouver outpost of co-working office space.
CondoBusiness
Housing affordability to erode further in 2019: RBC Economics
This year is unlikely to provide substantial housing affordability relief, reports the latest Housing Trends and Affordability report from RBC Economics.
REMI Network
Office vacancy rates drop across Canada in Q3
Total office vacancy has dropped across Canada's six largest urban markets, Colliers reports. Newly released results for the third quarter of 2018 suggest pre-leasing commitments from banks and tech companies for new premises in the Toronto and Vancouver markets underlie the growth.
Canadian Property Management
Canada’s big three cities affirm net zero goal
The mayors of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are among leaders of 19 major world cities aspiring for net zero carbon emissions across their urban building portfolios by 2050.
CondoBusiness
National housing starts trend down in July
The national trend in housing starts declined slightly to 219,988 units in July 2018, down from 221,738 units in June 2018, according to CMHC.
CondoBusiness
National housing market remains highly vulnerable: CMHC
Canada’s overall housing market remains highly vulnerable, mostly due to evidence of overvaluation and price acceleration, finds CMHC.
Canadian Property Management
Q2 office vacancy space figures released
Figures for office vacancy space in Q2 of 2018 have been released. The report revealed positive absorption rates for most of the major markets in Canada.
CondoBusiness
Vancouver home sales slide 35.1 per cent in May
Home sales in Metro Vancouver continued to decrease in May 2018, reports the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV).
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Passive House poised for institutional uptake
Passive House, a voluntary standard for achieving extremely energy-efficient buildings, appears to be poised for wider uptake in institutional projects.


