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Killam Apartment REIT hits milestone, looks ahead
Killam Apartment REIT hits milestone, looks ahead
Halifax-based Killam Apartment REIT has reached a significant milestone in its history and is now poised to expand its portfolio in the Ontario and Alberta markets. The REIT was recently added to the S&P/TSX Composite Index, S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index, S&P/TSX Composite Dividend Index, S&P/TSX Composite High Dividend Index and the S&P/TSX Composite Low Volatility Index.
The GTA’s 10 largest real estate sales during 2017
HOLIDAY STORY REVIEW: The Greater Toronto Area is on pace for its fifth straight record year in both the number of commercial real estate transactions and the total dollar volume invested. “At the end of Q3 2017, we have nearly matched the $17.1 billion invested in all of 2016,” said Altus Group data solutions manager Kenneth Lien. The torrid pace continued into Q4.
Colliers on Canada’s Top 6 markets: ‘Positive story everywhere’
HOLIDAY STORY REVIEW: Commercial real estate owners are getting a Christmas present from Colliers Canada in the form of a rosy forecast for next year. “There doesn’t seem to be much negative on the horizon,” says Craig Hennigar, director of market intelligence for Canada at Colliers Canada in Vancouver. “Generally it’s a positive story everywhere.” It’s a sentiment that was also expressed a few weeks earlier, when CBRE’s Paul Morassutti provided an economic update.
Good year in store for CRE in 2018: C and W
HOLIDAY STORY REVIEW: Demand for commercial real estate from domestic and international investors will remain robust through next year, according to a Cushman & Wakefield report on capitalization rates in 11 Canadian cities.
Quest honours London’s sustainable West5 development
HOLIDAY STORY REVIEW: The unique and innovative West5 mixed-use development in London, Ontario is billed as the first-large scale, privately developed sustainable smart community in the world. And recently, s2e Technologies and Sifton Properties Ltd., developers of the project, were recognized with the 2017 Smart Energy Communities Award by Quest – Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow.
Recognize when home ownership is too costly
Do you like it? Can you afford it? Will you be able to maintain it? These are the criteria that should drive home ownership decisions.
Six months ago: High demand spurs Victoria apartment builds
Victoria’s aging population of well-off downsizers, a severe shortage of rental homes and other market pressures are spurring developers to build hundreds of new rental apartment units, stakeholders and experts say. There are currently between 800 and 1,000 purpose-built rental apartment units being built in Victoria, said Justin Filuk, director of development at Townline Group of Companies.
One year ago: Still room, optimism for suburban growth
“The death of the suburbs is an untruth in the Canadian marketplace,” said Crombie REIT president and CEO Don Clow early in a panel dubbed “The Facts and Fallacies About the Suburbs” in Toronto. Session moderator Mark Rose, the chairman and CEO of Avison Young, and four other panelists didn’t sum things up quite as succinctly, but they all shared his sentiment.
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RENX 100 top stories 2017 & 2018 lookahead |
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Have you read RENX’s year-end issues of Property Biz Canada? The Top 100 real estate stories of 2017 is a summary of breaking news and major transactions from last year; plus our 2018 trends, strategies, predictions for Canadian real estate newsletter. |
| Property Biz Canada, Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
| Vancouver CRE investments rocket toward record Property Biz Canada, December 19, 2017 |
| Trophy assets dominate Vancouver 2017 real estate sales Property Biz Canada, December 19, 2017 |
| Glut of hotel rooms about to hit Calgary market Property Biz Canada, December 19, 2017 |
| Cominar to sell non-core properties to Slate for $1.14B Property Biz Canada, December 19, 2017 |
| Reseau Selection developments win global awards Property Biz Canada, December 19, 2017 |
| A ‘Net Zero’ home, what does it really mean? Property Biz Canada, December 19, 2017 |
| Six months ago: Downtown Toronto office market still tight Property Biz Canada, December 19, 2017 |
| One year ago: Angels help new generation of developers Property Biz Canada, December 19, 2017 |
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