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Harrison St. sees room to grow in Canada's student housing shortage
Harrison Street bets on student housing amid shortage
Harrison Street Asset Management, a major provider of off-campus student housing, wants to add more units to its Canadian portfolio despite the ongoing reduction of international students across the country.
Ottawa seeking $1 trillion in investments at Toronto summit
Hundreds of deep-pocketed investors have descended on Toronto for the first-of-its-kind Canada Investment Summit, bringing together global investors with Canadian business leaders in the hopes of catalyzing $1-trillion worth of investments across Canada over the next five years.
Value of unsold condos in Metro Vancouver put at $4.6B
The number of completed unsold homes across Metro Vancouver is expected to reach approximately 4,200 by year’s end and have a total estimated value of $4.6-billion, according to an internal industry report.
Foreign capital is rushing back into Canadian CRE
GUEST SUBMISSION: Foreign capital returning to Canada is positive for liquidity. But the more interesting implication is what it reveals about how Canadian real estate is being valued by different pools of capital.
Bloom Investment Group targets Western Canadian growth
Strong Calgary hotel performance confirmed the confidence Mississauga’s Bloom Investment Group placed in the city when acquiring three key assets earlier this year – Best Western Calgary Airport, Hilton Garden Inn Calgary Airport and Sheraton Cavalier – for roughly $50 million.
Developer Concord buys wind farm, plots data centres
Concord Pacific Developments Inc. has acquired fifty wind turbines in Saskatchewan from Potentia Renewables Inc. for several hundred million dollars, deepening the Canadian developer’s long-term bet on renewables, as it also eyes a move into data centres.
Welcome to the age of the land grab
OPINION: Questions about when expropriation is appropriate, and when it constitutes an injustice, have come into focus again in recent months, thanks to two high-profile proposed infrastructure projects in Canada.
The global bond blowup is starting to hit home — literally
This past week, the selloff pushed a key U.S. Treasury yield to the cusp of five per cent. This bond yield serves a benchmark for five-year fixed mortgage rates, and last week these too started to rise.
Canada's industrial past a key advantage in new tech era
Physical AI is the next wave of intelligence. It needs factories, metal, supply chains and people who know how to build at scale. Canada has it all — and an opportunity to grow globally competitive companies.
Photonic proposes $500M manufacturing facility in B.C.
With an estimated cost of up to $500 million, Project VANGUARD is envisioned as shared national semiconducting manufacturing infrastructure, serving commercial and government organizations working across quantum computing, AI, aerospace, defence, advanced sensing and semiconductor packaging.
$50M expansion in the works for Alberta's only paper mill
Alberta’s only paper mill may soon see a major expansion. The project will modernize Alberta Newsprint Company's Whitecourt facility, enabling it to produce multiple grades of paper. It currently produces newsprint, book papers and high bright papers.
Canada, U.S. trade deal 'possible', ‘red lines’ clarified: PM
The dramatic collapse of trade talks with the U.S. in August helped clarify Canada’s negotiating “red lines,” said Prime Minister Mark Carney, who added he’s ready to get back to the table for the right deal.
Why Calgary's suburban retail rental is surging
Calgary’s suburban retail rental market is emerging as one of the strongest in the country, with some neighbourhoods reporting vacancy rates close to zero as population growth fuels demand for new commercial space.
Canadian CRE investors spend $9B on U.S. assets
The pace of U.S. asset purchases from Canadian firms accelerated in the second quarter. The dollar total remains below the five-year average, but the data suggests that Canadian real estate buyers of all sizes have shrugged off the escalating tariffs.
Data centre IPO wave reveals new strategies
Just four years ago, the data centre industry was abandoning public markets. Now, the trend has reversed. Over the last year, nearly a dozen data centre companies have gone public, have filed for an IPO or have been exploring one.
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