Commercial real estate still facing headwinds amid lower rates: expert
1/29/2025 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Commercial real estate still faces headwinds after the Bank of Canada’s move to lower interest rates, according to some experts, with others expecting the move to spur ...
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Is Canada's commercial real estate market poised for recovery in 2025?
1/15/2025 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
The Canadian commercial real estate market is heading into 2025 with cautious optimism following a year of interest rate relief, according to Avison Young’s latest Q4 2024 ...
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BoC slashes interest rates by 50 basis points: What's next for CRE?
10/23/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
What does today’s 50 basis point interest rate cut mean for the Canadian commercial real estate market? ...
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Investors showed "confidence" in Canada's commercial real estate sector in Q2: Morguard
9/5/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Canada’s commercial real estate sector saw positive momentum in the second quarter of the year, according to a new report, which notes further reductions in borrowing costs ...
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Bottom is nigh for most CRE valuations, office still a struggle: Altus
7/16/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
The bottom is in sight for commercial real estate valuations, though there’s probably more room for office values to continue their decline. ...
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Many challenges facing Canada's development land market
5/30/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
2024 transaction pace is for about $10B in sales, one-third of the activity in 2022 ...
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Q1 CRE transactions plunge 55% in Canada's major markets
5/27/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Morguard report shows declines in all major commercial real estate sectors ...
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Listings up, sales down in slow GTA high-density land market: Myers
3/11/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) condominium market has softened considerably since April 2022, especially during the past six months. ...
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Industrial to remain strong suggests Avison Young
2/8/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Avison Young has released its Q1 Canadian cap rate and investment trends report, forecasting that although lenders will remain conservative in 2024, capital from lenders remains ...
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Why another challenging year could be ahead for Canada's office market
1/24/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Empty office space is spiking as the pandemic fallout continues ...
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Industrial real estate remains tight despite record-breaking increase in new space
1/11/2024 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Industrial landlords list spaces early amid rising tenant demand and supply ...
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Commercial real estate sector not in crisis, says analyst
10/19/2023 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
'Turbulence' is the best way to describe the current challenges, according to executive ...
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Property taxes are out of step with CRE investors facing oversized costs
10/16/2023 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Altus Group research finds commercial tax rates 3x higher than residential in more than half of cities surveyed ...
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Office vacancy rate could peak in 2024 as hybrid work models gain popularity: report
8/15/2023 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
A new report by Colliers Canada predicts the national office vacancy rate could peak at approximately 15 per cent by the end of 2024 as the rise of hybrid work models prompt ...
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Are we gonna hit $2 million an acre?': Industrial land prices are soaring to new heights in Ontario
6/26/2023 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Investors are currently shelling out an average of $11.89 per square foot or $517,928.40 per acre for industrial land ...
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Report: Commercial market "held steady" in the first quarter
6/1/2023 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Commercial activity in multiple asset classes held steady in Q1 2023 even as markets continued to labour under higher borrowing costs and sustained inflationary pressures, ...
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Cap rates still trend up, transaction activity stays slow: CBRE
5/3/2023 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
While overall transaction activity remains relatively slow, private buyers continued to be more active than institutional investors in the first quarter, according to ... ...
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Malls face catastrophic hit in Canada with unpaid rent surging
4/27/2020 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Canada’s malls are facing a wave of skipped rents and could see vacancy rates triple by year-end, with the coronavirus poised to leave its scars on a fragile retail sector ...
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CBRE: Canadian commercial real estate set for $50 billion year
2/27/2020 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Canada’s commercial real estate (CRE) sector could reach a record-breaking level of investment in 2020 according to CBRE. ...
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Industrial CRE an investor darling: Rents 'just exploded'
2/21/2020 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
The industrial real estate sector’s 2019 rate of total return far outpaced any other on the MSCI/REALPAC Canada Annual Property Index, and it’s looking good in 2020 ...
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Former niche CRE investment is now big business
1/30/2020 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Data centres are now a cornerstone of business and $100 billion has flowed into the asset class in the last decade according to a new report from Cushman & Wakefield. ...
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Canadian CRE set to perform well overall in 2020
1/13/2020 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
This year should be a good one for Canada’s commercial real estate sector with overall strong performance. ...
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Commercial real estate outlook for 2020
12/9/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
As a result of the growth of e-commerce, industrial and storage space will increase next year ...
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CRE executives say market fundamentals are strong
11/25/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Commercial real estate executives in the US are generally upbeat about the market as we head into 2020. ...
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Flexible working to rise with benefits for outside-metro markets
11/20/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Co-working and flexible working spaces are set to continue their popularity and deliver a boost to local economies outside metropolitan areas. ...
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Why CRE investors should consider niche assets
10/22/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Cushman & Wakefield says transaction activity has "exploded" in recent years. ...
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PwC forecasts 2020 commercial market
9/20/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
The analysis forecasts Canada's industrial, office and retail sectors ...
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Commercial cap rate compression around the corner
8/27/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Declining bond yields are putting downward pressure on cap rates and creating opportunity for investment in Canada’s commercial sector. ...
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Offices and apartments are bolstering GTA commercial investment
8/12/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
Offices and apartments were the major commercial asset investment drivers in the GTA during Q2 2019, according to Altus Group. ...
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Dynamism in GTA industrial's segment fuelled by e-commerce, logistics
7/24/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Jessi Sandhu
The Greater Toronto Area’s surging industrial property market is largely impelled by sustained demand for e-commerce and logistics facilities. ...
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