Erin Ruddy
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Investor demand targets purpose-built rental
Morguard's Director of Research Keith Reading provides advance insights into Q1 market conditions, noting that things continue to look optimistic for the purpose-built rental scene.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Keeping up with residential tenancy laws
As the rental industry grows and changes, so do residential tenancy laws. Joe Hoffer, Partner Cohen Highley LLP, highlights three specific areas of concern.
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Cogeneration sparks apartment sector interest
Cogeneration in Canada is no longer just for hospitals and industrial facilities—multi-residential property owners are beginning to take note of this energy savings technology, too.
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Rental market demand propels sector growth
A new report from Urbanation suggests rental market demand is hot given both condo rentals and purpose-built construction starts saw record numbers in 2015.
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An interview with Kris Boyce, Greenwin
Kris Boyce is known for many things, among them is her ability to put together a competent and hard-working team. Perhaps it’s her eye for
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Interview: Anne Morash, GWL Realty Advisors
Goodbye fax machines and rolodexes. Hello mobile communications and renters who want it all. Times have changed for real estate management professionals and no one
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B.C. offers flexibility for redevelopment
A proposed amendment to British Columbia’s Strata Property Act could make it easier for apartment developers to scoop up prime real estate in B.C.’s hottest neighbourhoods.
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An affordable remedy to a national crisis
Affordable housing shortages for working Canadians have hit critical levels in most major cities across Canada. For years, grim statistics of growing waitlists far outpacing the number of affordable rental units under construction have made headlines nation-wide. Despite the alarming numbers, not much in the way of viable, sustainable solutions have been presented. That is, until now...
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Interview: Bob Dhillon, Mainstreet Equity Corp.
Bob Dhillon is a man who knows what he wants, and right now he wants to be right where he is: in Western Canada buying
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Boosting Canada’s low-income rental market
Affordability is a concern for many Canadians, but low-income rental households face the greatest set of challenges. With the federal election fast approaching, party leaders have been busy unveiling plans to tackle what is being dubbed an “affordable housing crisis.”
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Q&A: Rod Pirie, Concert Realty Services
Founded in 1989, Vancouver-based Concert Realty Services is a multifaceted company with operations in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. To date, Concert has completed more
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Reinvesting in Toronto’s aging rental towers
The Tower Renewal Project is a program to drive broad environmental, social, economic, and cultural change by improving Toronto's concrete apartment towers and the neighbourhoods that surround them. Home to a million people across the GTA, now is the time to reinvest in these vertical communities that have huge potential.
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Balcony mishaps in residential towers
Most Canadian cities see up to ten residential high-rise balcony- and window-related accidents per year. Here is an inside look at why they happen and how to help prevent them.
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Economic downturn has rental repercussions
With low oil prices and slow housing starts predicted to take their toll on the economy, what effects will they have on Alberta's rental market? Amit Grover of Colliers, Edmonton, shares his insights.
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Addressing Ontario’s affordable housing crisis
Ontario’s affordable housing wait list continued to swell in 2014 with more than 3,600 applying for rent-geared-to-income (RGI) accommodations.
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Q&A: Jason Castellan, Skyline Apartment REIT
From Guelph, ON, to Dawson Creek, B.C., Skyline Apartment REIT continues to break new ground and soar even higher, securing its place among Canada’s top
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Toronto’s condo market is more renter friendly
A new report by Urbanation suggests Toronto’s condo market is more renter friendly due to an influx of completed condos and the rise of new purpose-built rental apartments.