Danny Kucharsky

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Tight vacancy and increasing rents have been the story for Calgary’s multi-residential rental market recently and that’s not likely to change anytime soon: the city’s population continues to grow and housing supply is at crisis levels.

Pinemount Developments Ltd. and Elysium Investments are planning a mixed-use condominium development for a 1.78-acre site at 3406-3434 Weston Rd. in Toronto they acquired for $19.8 million through a receivership sale.

Miller Thomson LLP is moving on up. The national business law firm has renewed its lease in downtown Toronto’s Scotia Plaza at 40 King St. W. for 15 years – but it is moving higher within the building’s uppermost floors. 

The acceleration of e-commerce left many people wondering if in-person shopping might soon come to an end. But a key catalyst for e-commerce – the rise of technology in the retail sector – is also playing a role in bricks-and-mortar resiliency.

In the latest attempt to curb residential real estate prices in Canada, Parliament has introduced a statute aimed at making housing more affordable and accessible to Canadians.

Flexible workspace and office provider IWG had a successful 2022 and will open nine new Canadian sites in the first part of this year as it looks to grow by 100 locations – to 250 sites – during the next three years.

This year’s Global Property Market conference opened with presentations which looked both forward and back ... reviewing the major trends of 2022 and offering an investment outlook for 2023.

Devimco Immobilier, the Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ and Fiera Properties will spearhead the $700-million MAESTRIA mixed-use development in Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles district. MAESTRIA will comprise two towers, 51 and 53 storeys high, containing about 1,000 condominium units, 500 rental apartments, plus retail and commercial

Darktrace, a cyber security company that uses preventative artificial intelligence (AI) to detect threats and protect organizations, is now involved with one of Canada’s most ambitious mixed-use developments: The Well. Darktrace was launched in Cambridge, England in 2013 and director

Industrial rental rates in Montreal will continue to rise but not at the explosive level seen in the last year. That was one of the conclusions of a session on the city’s industrial market during the Montreal Real Estate Strategy

BentallGreenOak has spent $170 million to acquire a six-building industrial portfolio with 767,564 square feet of gross leasable area on the Island of Montreal. BentallGreenOak is expected to close on a seventh building in the so-called Camco industrial portfolio by

Ivanhoé Cambridge, Cogir Real Estate and Pomerleau will invest about $200 million to build Haleco, a mixed-use residential, office and commercial project on a site linking Old Montreal and Griffintown that won the C40 Reinventing Cities competition in 2019. Construction

Finneo founder Amar Nijjar says his firm is helping to take the commercial real estate financing industry out of the Excel spreadsheet era and into the modern era with its debt and transaction management software. During the last two years,

Large tracts of industrial land are few and far between in the Greater Toronto Area, but Montreal-based developer Broccolini has acquired several development parcels in and around the region. From an industrial development perspective, the boundaries of the GTA are

Rapidly expanding logistics and last-mile delivery company Bolt Logistics says it is on track to become carbon neutral by the end of its 2023 fiscal year. Bolt will achieve that goal in part by opting for energy-efficient LED and motion-based

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 will likely act as a stimulant to Canada’s residential real estate market in 2022 by delaying central bankers’ plans to raise interest rates, says Royal LePage president and CEO Phil Soper. “I believe it will

Tenants must be prepared to settle for less, drive long distances and pay more than they expected in Montreal’s sizzling industrial market. Those were among the trends that emerged at a session on industrial real estate at the Montreal Real

RoseFellow and JV partner Bertone Development Corp. have signed a 15-year lease with Ford Canada to build a 531,000-square-foot distribution centre at a cost of $100 million in Casselman, east of Ottawa. The facility, to be located at Highway 417

Hazelview Investments has launched Hazelview Ventures, a venture capital fund that will partner with early-stage proptech, buildtech and cleantech companies. “The hope is to find the absolute best companies we can help and that can really help us with our