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Canadian Property Management
Canada’s share of global CRE value nudges up
Global investment property transaction volume dropped by 48 per cent last year, but deal-makers appeared somewhat more amenable in Canada, which posted one of the highest turnover ratios.
Canadian Property Management
All-male boards dwindling in real estate
In 2023, real estate made the best year-over-year progress in shedding all-male boards among the 11 industry sectors tracked in MSCI’s all-country world index (ACWI).
Canadian Property Management
Canada shares in real estate’s global value dip
The global value of professionally managed real estate fell by 4.1 per cent last year relative to 2021, representing a USD $600 billion year-over-year drop.
Canadian Property Management
Canada gains weight in global property index
Canada contributed to an 8.5 per cent or USD $900 billion expansion of the professionally managed real estate market last year across 37 countries MSCI analyzed.
Canadian Property Management
Industrial assets deliver outsized Q1 returns
Canada stands out in newly released global investment performance data for outsized returns on industrial assets during the first quarter of 2022.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate investment universe expands in 2020
MSCI estimates the global professionally managed real estate investment market grew by 9 per cent to reach USD $10.5 trillion in 2020, up from USD $9.6 trillion in 2019.
Canadian Property Management
COVID-19 clips 2020 investment performance
A ten-year run of capital growth abruptly reversed, resulting in a 7.8 per cent loss of value across the 2,356 assets that the 44 portfolios represented in the Canada Annual Property Index hold.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily assets surpass 2020 index average
Newly released 2020 investment results find industrial and multifamily assets on the positive side of the national average total return for 2,356 directly held standing assets, which registered -4.1 per cent.
Canadian Property Management
Favoured lease horizons vary with economy
Commercial landlords may be looking differently at the mix of lease horizons in their buildings and across their portfolios than they did a few weeks ago.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Low yields not deterring multifamily investment
Multifamily assets delivered the lowest income return of the property sectors to institutional investors in the Canada Property Index last year, but produced strong total returns on a foundation of 7.3 per cent capital growth.
Canadian Property Management
New metric to peg portfolio warming potential
A new package of analytical tools identify and track asset exposure to climate risk, aligned with the steady adoption of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures by global financial institutions.
Canadian Property Management
Industrial-retail seesaw in play for investors
A 6.65 per cent average total return on the Canada Property Index's 2,723 directly held standing assets, scattered across eight major markets, cloaks significant variances between property sectors and from market to market.
Canadian Property Management
Climate risk profilers wrangle fragmented data
A widening scope of resources can be tapped to build increasingly sophisticated risk profiles, but sustainability practitioners note that data is often fragmented and difficult to obtain.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Investors pad multifamily’s portfolio share
Multifamily assets have enjoyed the most growth in real estate portfolio share of any property type thus far in the 21st century, jumping from 11 per cent to 17 per cent of investment allocation.
Canadian Property Management
Deal values stay in line with retail appraisals
Transaction data from 2018 direct sales does not validate grumbling about the dissonance between REIT pricing and the appraised values of retail properties.
Canadian Property Management
Canada inconspicuous in Global Property Index
The 2018 total return on Canadian real estate assets was in the back half of the pack among 25 national markets, but Canada is part of a smaller group of 12 that can boast an improvement over 2017 results.
REMI Network
Foreign investors attuned to currency swing
Recent MSCI analysis suggests outsiders can suffer a more painful hit or enjoy a better recovery from a geopolitical shock, depending on their timing and the strength of their domestic currency.
