Real Estate
Canadian Property Management
Interest rate cut emits positive signal for CRE
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.
REMI Network
U.S. real estate financiers look out to 2025
U.S. real estate financiers express somewhat less confidence in the country’s economy as summer takes holds, but foresee relatively stable conditions for commercial and multifamily real estate finance.
CondoBusiness
Canada bolsters guard against money laundering
Title insurers, real estate brokers and sales representatives will have new obligations to guard against money laundering and terrorist financing under proposed federal regulations.
Canadian Property Management
New sustainability report deciphers CRE concerns
REALPAC's newly updated 2024 sustainability report discusses a range of issues that are increasingly being raised in investment decisions and regulatory compliance.
Canadian Property Management
Ivanhoé Cambridge receives investment accolades
Ivanhoé Cambridge has been named global real estate investor of the year in the 2024 IPE Real Estate Awards for institutional investors.
REMI Network
CRE insiders feeling more optimistic in the U.S.
NAIOP’s newly released sentiment index reveals modest expectations for improved conditions over the coming 12 months, contrasting with last fall’s negative outlook.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Promise of safe haven woos foreign investors
Foreign investors contemplating Canada’s multifamily market may see more theoretical than actual opportunity, given the current scarcity of available product.
Canadian Property Management
NAIOP imposes order on CRE’s evolving vocabulary
An updated glossary of commercial real estate’s common business terms presents an expanded list reflective of an evolving vocabulary across a multidisciplinary workforce.
Canadian Property Management
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 Apartment Magazine
Ontario’s shifting real estate landscape
As we head into Q2-2024, a significant shift in Ontario’s real estate landscape has occurred, putting the rental market front and centre amid declining home sales.
Canadian Property Management
Women welcomed on boards, less so in C-suites
New analysis from Morningstar DBRS charts the changing gender split of senior leadership at 11 TSX-listed real estate entities between 2010 and 2022.
Canadian Property Management
Lindsay Brand named CIO at Concert Properties
Lindsay Brand is joining Concert Properties in the role of chief investment officer, heading up the national team responsible for income-producing properties.
Canadian Property Management
Sustainable finance quest spurs global alliance
Green building proponents in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States are joining forces to produce and promote guidance on sustainable finance options for real estate.
CondoBusiness
New levy coming at Alberta land titles registry
A straightforward charge of $5 per $5,000 of value of transferred property and mortgage registration will come into effect to replace the current fee schedule for registering land titles.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate leadership team gels at Fengate
Fengate Asset Management’s real estate leadership team now includes Jaime McKenna, newly promoted to president, alongside Alison Kimmell and Colin Catherwood as new managing directors.
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
Investment shopping list considered for 2024
As more vendors and purchasers are expected to come to the market this year, Avison Young's sentiment data shows retail, multifamily and industrial assets are sought, while office is tapped for divestment.
