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Potential property tax relief looks uneven

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Potential property tax relief looks uneven

A potential incentive for new purpose-built rental housing in Ontario comes with adverse implications for existing multifamily properties, thanks to the mathematics of property tax allocation.
2024 Ontario Budget

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Building more affordable homes faster

Key action steps in the 2024 Ontario Budget include investing $1 billion in the new Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program and supporting transit-oriented development.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

An Amazing Opportunity to Engage Your Residents: The Conscious-Living Giveaway Returns

Over the next 25 years, building owners and managers will become increasingly responsible for green initiatives as part of each property’s operational mandate. According to
Cooling deemed key amenity for Ontario renters

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Cooling deemed key amenity for Ontario renters

Conceptually, the proposed rules establish air conditioning as a protected option that tenants cannot be prevented from obtaining rather than an essential that landlords would be compelled to supply.
rent growth

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Housing experts share rental market predictions for 2022

In a new report, 24 housing experts share their rental market predictions for 2022 and the solutions they say are needed to spur development.
Former Ontario Premier Bill Davis was a honorary member of BOMA Toronto

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Bill Davis held rare BOMA membership status

Former Ontario Premier Bill Davis was an honorary member of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Greater Toronto.
residential landlords COVID-19

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Weathering the 3rd wave of COVID-19

As COVID-19 variants surge throughout the country, what do the latest lockdown measures mean for residential landlords?
multi-unit housing starts

Canadian Apartment Magazine

A closer look at infill development

As affordable rental housing continues to be a pressing need in the GTA, some housing experts believe infill development is the solution we've been looking for.
residential rents

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Ontario announces plan to freeze rents

Rental housing sector responds to Ontario's announcement that it intends to freeze rents in 2021, a move that has blindsided the industry.
Postponed reassessment delays Ontario's next property tax cycle

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Ontario to delay next property tax cycle

The move was announced in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, but additionally opens a window to adjust the mechanics of the assessment process itself.
energy demand load

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Energy demand load shifts to residential base

The energy demand load has shifted in sync with much of Ontario’s workforce from commercial to home offices, prompting calls for suspension of time-of-use pricing during the current COVID-19 related upheaval
Ontario benchmarking

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Smaller buildings spared Ontario benchmarking

Owners of smaller commercial and multi-residential buildings in Ontario will still be welcome to voluntarily share energy and water consumption data, but a looming deadline for mandatory disclosure has been withdrawn.
Ontario Fire Code

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Ontario Fire Code to add steeper fine bracket

More stringent fines and an extended period for prosecutions are slated to come into force 30 days after the Ontario legislature adopts the Budget Measures Act.

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FRPO appoints new president and CEO

FRPO announced it has appointed Tony Irwin as its new president and CEO, replacing Daryl Chong who has been the interim president since February 2018.