CBRE Canada
Canadian Property Management
Familiar market patterns transpire in Q1
Canada’s industrial availability rate crept slightly upwards during Q1 2025, while office vacancies continued to hover in the same general range they’ve occupied since mid-2023.
Canadian Property Management
Lenders exhibit decarbonization disconnect
Canadian lenders may be reassessing the urgency of decarbonization, but they still express enthusiasm for the sustainable assets and impact investments that appear to be losing cachet in the United States.
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Loan conditions onerous for condo projects
Loan conditions are expected to be onerous for residential condominium developments again in 2025, following a year when many lenders pulled back on construction financing.
Canadian Property Management
Office leasing makes national gains in 2024
Office leasing activity ticked up by 2.6 million square feet across 10 major Canadian markets in 2024, marking the first year of national positive net absorption since 2019.
Canadian Property Management
New supply pads office and industrial inventory
More than 5.7 million square feet of office space and nearly 21 million square feet of industrial space have been newly delivered to the national market during the the first three quarters of 2024.
Canadian Property Management
Hotel transaction volume outpacing last year
Colliers Canada projects hotel transaction volume should surpass $2 billion in 2024, based on first half sales and properties currently in the deal pipeline.
Canadian Property Management
Retail squeeze buoys mixed-use development
Mixed-use developments represent one of the few options for new retail space in Canada's largest markets, as demand and rental rates continue to rise.
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National office vacancy rate nudges up in Q1
Vancouver and Winnipeg led positive absorption while Toronto and Montreal posted the largest losses, as the national office vacancy rate nudged up to 18.4 per cent during the winter of 2024
Canadian Property Management
Year-end retail rents show little slippage
Retail rents rose or remained steady across most formats during the second half of 2023 with slippage confined to a few street-based, downtown shopping districts in large Canadian cities.
Canadian Property Management
National office vacancy rate continues to climb
Toronto was a major contributor to the rising national office vacancy rate in the fourth quarter of 2023, which ticked up to 18.3 per cent despite positive absorption in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax.
Canadian Property Management
Lenders set to curtail office exposure in 2024
Lenders generally expect to curtail office exposure while increasing overall allocations to Canadian real estate in 2024, findings from CBRE Canada's annual survey reveal.
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Retail rents posting gains in open-air venues
Calgary, Montreal and Halifax particularly enjoyed an upturn in retail rents during the first half of 2023, but declining rates were next to non-existent across Canada's major urban markets.
Canadian Property Management
Rising office vacancy pairs with rent growth
CBRE Canada reports an all-time high national office vacancy rate and another quarter-over-quarter increase in average Class A net rents for Q1 2023.
Canadian Property Management
Office market setback a national trend for Q4
The fourth quarter of 2022 saw the office vacancy rate climb to 17.1 per cent across 10 major Canadian markets, accompanied with 2.1 million square feet of negative absorption.
Canadian Property Management
Lender confidence varies by CRE asset class
Logistics warehouses, multifamily rental buildings, data centres and life sciences labs are tapped as favoured assets in CBRE Canada’s newly released survey of lenders' sentiment.
Canadian Property Management
Paul Morassutti appointed CBRE Canada chairman
A member of CBRE’s executive management committee, Morassutti has most recently served as head of the firm's valuation and advisory services.
Canadian Property Management
Robust yields ongoing for industrial landlords
Market analysts and asset managers express confidence that the industrial sector will be buoyant into the future despite current global economic uncertainty.
