Multifamily properties continue to be an investment favourite worldwide, with Canada perhaps demonstrating the hyper version of what’s happening in markets elsewhere.

Practical impacts on the cost of debt aren’t expected to flow through to the market for a few more months, but economists suggest the apparent momentum of falling rates should provide a psychological lift for investors.

New condominium apartment sales were down 38 per cent from March 2023 and 73 per cent below the 10-year average.

Commercial ratepayers took on a larger share of the property tax burden in eight of 11 large Canadian cities this year, with 2023 commercial tax rates more than tripling residential tax rates in six of those cities.

The benchmark price for new condominium apartments was $1,084,768, which was down 9 per cent over the last 12 months.

Appraisers generally expect office building values to keep slipping over the course of 2023 as a range of factors undermine cash flow, push up cap rates and make investors skittish.

The new home market in the Greater Toronto Area is gradually improving as March sales increased slighting higher than in February.

Condominium apartments accounted for 381 units sold—the lowest level for January in 14 years.

Commercial property tax rates climbed and commercial-to-residential tax ratios widened this year in the majority of large Canadian cities Altus Group surveys for its annual benchmark report.

A new report estimates commercial real estate made a $148.4 billion total contribution to Canada’s GDP last year, when factoring its direct, indirect and induced impacts.

Rising interest rates have Canadian commercial real estate players adjusting their expectations about cap rates and internal rates of return.

Food-anchored retail plazas remain a staple on the commercial real estate menu, again emerging as the preferred asset type in Altus Group’s survey of Canadian investment trends in Q2.

Total May new home sales of 2,549 units were down 40 per cent from May 2021 and 26 per cent below the 10-year average.

Assessed values in Ottawa and Toronto will be at least seven years out of date and Winnipeg’s will be nearly five years behind before new assessment cycles begin in those cities.

Condos, including units in low, medium and high-rise buildings, stacked townhouses and loft units, accounted for 2,396 new home sales in May.

Economic fallout from COVID-19 is shifting more of the tax burden to this flourishing group of assets via the mill rate, while also driving up the tax rate, for a double-whammy of consequences in jurisdictions that update valuations annually.

Multi-residential construction costs are rising in Canada due to the pandemic’s impact on everything from labour and material costs to shifting supply and demand dynamics.