Canadian commercial real estate intelligence provider Altus Group (AIF-T) is selling its Canadian appraisals business to an affiliate of New York-based Newmark Group (NMRK-Q) as Altus continues to pare its business down to its core offerings.

Hazelview Investments has announced a “strategic review” of its Four Quadrant Global Real Estate Partners fund to find a way to “maximize value and strengthen the Fund's liquidity position for unitholders.”

SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust (SRU-UN-T) reported an industry-leading, in-place and committed occupancy of 98.6-per cent in its retail properties while its overall year-end net operating income (NOI) rose by $20.02 million from a year earlier.

GUEST SUBMISSION: We went from “survive until 2025” to “stay in the mix until 2026”. We don’t yet have a catch phrase for 2027 (what rhymes with seven?), but you can feel multifamily housing is becoming a very complicated sector. 

As occupier expectations evolve, landscape programs are shifting from sustainability signals to strategic tools that support engagement, satisfaction, and long-term asset competitiveness.

Cadillac Fairview has acquired a portfolio of four newly built, multi-tenant industrial properties comprising 550,000 square feet in the Greater Toronto West district. The buildings are all LEED certified, and fully leased.

EXCLUSIVE: Montreal-based Leyad continues to build its retail portfolio with the $160.5-million acquisition of Winnipeg’s St. Vital Centre from Ontario Pension Board (OPB). Leyad CEO calls it "one of the two most important shopping centres in Manitoba.”

Partners Almega and Brixen Developments believe timing will be in their favour when their 12-storey, 308-unit apartment building at 824 Sheppard Ave. W. in Toronto’s North York district is ready for residents sometime in 2028.

The GTA office market is experiencing important shifts in investment sentiment that should provoke optimism, even bullishness. The catch is those positive signs are mostly happening around transit-oriented, higher-quality office buildings in the CBD and key suburban markets,

Richmond Asset Management is continuing its growth in southwestern Ontario, expanding into Niagara Region with the acquisition of a 79-apartment building in St. Catharines.

Allied Properties REIT (AP-UN-T) has announced a plan to raise $500 million in equity as it works to improve its balance sheet in the face of a billion-dollar writedown on its property values in Q4 and an accompanying billion-dollar net loss.

An Ontario-based First Nations group which has purchased Edmonton’s Connect Centre - one of the city’s most prominent downtown mixed-use properties - has plans to move quickly on a major residential expansion at the site.

UPDATED: Oxford Properties is testing the office transaction market with one of its most significant Toronto holdings, placing the Citigroup Place tower in downtown Toronto up for sale.

It could take up to 20 years to return Granville Street to its former glory as the city’s main entertainment and hospitality district, but developer Stanley Dee figures his recently approved hotel project will be part of that success.

GUEST SUBMISSION: It’s obvious to most players in the Greater Toronto Area industrial leasing market that the sector has slowed over the past 24 months. What’s less obvious is the secondary effects this has created.

Accredited WoodWorks BC seminars by top industry leaders dive into mass timber, hybrid systems, and housing delivery innovations and challenges shaping active BC projects. Last chance to register for this Wednesday & Thursday, as limited tickets remain. Secure your spot here. 

As more and more workers return to downtown office buildings, the buildings they are returning to are rapidly being upgraded to welcome them. GWLRA's One Adelaide East office tower will be the most recent example.

Construction should begin by October on the first 400 housing units three of Montreal’s largest developers have committed to help build in a bid to provide housing for 2,500 homeless people. The cost? Less than $400 per sq. ft.

For as long as most developers can remember, street width standards have been treated as untouchable. They are embedded in engineering manuals and municipal guidelines, rarely questioned and almost never challenged.

Lifetime Developments and DiamondCorp are advancing toward the construction of a rare development in Toronto these days. Q Tower is a 60-storey, 980-unit condominium on the site of a former parking garage at 200 Queens Quay W. 

CBRE’s Canada Real Estate Market Outlook for 2026 forecasts a significant jump in investment activity, mergers and acquisitions in the coming year. It also contains more good news for the country's office sector - particularly in Toronto.

When Montreal developer Groupe HD builds a residential project, it usually seeks proximity to public transit. But for its latest project, in partnership with Société Financière Bourgie, the developer has taken a different approach.

PART II: After years of caution and privacy concerns dominating the conversation around the use of artificial intelligence in the built form, we decided to seek hard data from Canadians in our most recent rental housing study.

Brookfield Asset Management (BAM-T) has completed a transition process which has been ongoing for the past several years, with Connor Teskey’s appointment as chief executive officer being approved by its board of directors. He succeeds longtime CEO Bruce Flatt.

Primaris REIT (PMZ-UN-T) has been one of Canada's busiest CRE transactors the past several years, and that continued in 2025. The shopping centre owner conducted the two largest individual property acquisitions in the GTA and GGH, according to Altus Group.