BST Canada has acquired three Toronto purpose-built rental apartment buildings comprising almost 500 units for $143.8 million from LASH Group of Companies. The company launched a multifamily acquistion platform with two institutional investors earlier this year.

GWL Realty Advisors recently completed two large acquisitions pertaining to two landmark office buildings, joining a growing list of institutional investors that have shown a strong conviction in high-quality office assets.

Sienna Senior Living and Fiera Infrastructure have formed a joint venture with the objective of expediting $625 million in long-term care redevelopment projects in Ontario.

Ontario’s housing market went from one of the hottest development booms in history to a landscape of stalled projects, cancelled developments and deepening affordability challenges. Host Adam Jacobs and RESCON president and CEO Richard Lyall unpack how we got here.

TELUS Living, a development branch of the telecom company aimed at converting many of its unneeded network sites into housing, has opened its second purpose-built rental community in British Columbia. 

Dream announced that it has agreed to buy U.K. industrial developer and asset manager Chancerygate for $147M. The joint acquisition by Dream Unlimited Corp. and Dream Industrial REIT commits an additional $47M to complete ongoing Chancerygate developments. 

Prima Living has completed its $117.91-million acquisition of nine senior living communities in Ontario from Chartwell Retirement Residences, adding 689 units and bringing its total portfolio to 1,187 suites across Canada.

Firm Capital Property Trust continues to add to its manufactured housing community portfolio after closing a deal to acquire a 50-per cent interest in 10 Alberta and Saskatchewan properties with a combined 1,649 residential lots for $218 million.

OpenForm Properties and Epta Development Corporation (EDC) have broken ground on the 339-unit Easthill rental residential community at the northeast corner of Renfrew Street and East Broadway in Vancouver.

Boardwalk REIT (BEI-UN-T) and DGAM Canadian Private Real Estate Fund have entered into a 50-50 co-ownership venture focused on multifamily communities in Western Canada. The partnership will launch with an initial portfolio valued at roughly $292 million.

StorageVault (SVI-T) has announced the acquisition of four self storage properties in Ontario for a combined $81.6 million. Three of the acquisitions, all located in the GTA, will be purchased through a new partnership between StorageVault and Woodbourne.

Lankin Investments’ Lankin Real Estate Growth LP has acquired an 80-unit purpose-built rental apartment at 33 Dawson Rd. in Guelph, Ont. for an undisclosed price.

TI allowances in Metro Vancouver have risen 124.9% since 2019. For Class A landlords, the question is no longer how much to commit, it's whether that capital is being deployed in a way that shortens downtime and closes tenants faster.

Built by CPAs and operators with three generations of property management experience, Kompas is Canadian software designed to run modern real estate operations and accounting as one system so the hours your stack costs you stop showing up under payroll. 

Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the most discussed topics in business. Much of the public conversation has centred on automation, cost savings and job replacement.

Skyline Industrial REIT has fully leased the Bayers Lake Industrial Centre in Halifax, a process that went from a trickle of interest upon its completion to a deluge of demand, its president Mike Bonneveld said.

Katherine Tweedie apppointed Head of Canada for BlackRock, McNamara departs OMERS to become CEO at British Land, other executive appointments at Fengate and Savills.

Chartwell (CSH-UN-T) today announced roughly $237.9 million in strategic investments across three provinces as it grows its seniors' housing development pipeline.

Upper Vista Welland — a five-storey, 226-unit condominium in Welland, Ont. that’s been undergoing reconstruction since it partially collapsed in February 2023 — has been granted occupancy approval for more than 70 residences.

A commercial real estate firm in Toronto spent 13 weeks trying to fill a mid-level asset management role. By the sixth week, their top candidate had already accepted another offer...

Kitchener, Ont.-based solar energy solution provider VCT Group has received an undisclosed strategic investment from GrandBridge Corporation that will support the company’s growth and enable it to repay outstanding debt.

Groupe Inspire has invested $46.5 million to purchase the 260-unit, eight-building La Renaissance portfolio in the Montreal borough of LaSalle and plans to acquire another 1,000 multi-family units in Greater Montreal in the next 12 months.

GUEST SUBMISSION: Toronto’s condo market boiled over and then it froze. And as the condo crash continues, the word "condo" has become a dirty word to developers, investors and future homeowners alike.

“The housing sector has dealt with a series of successive, almost concussive blows,” according to Minto Group CEO Michael Waters, who addressed those issues and some measures being taken to try and remedy them in an interview with RENX.

Across Toronto, residential developments are being delayed, redesigned or abandoned because they no longer pencil out despite signs of positive policy change. Rising construction costs, tighter lending conditions and compressed margins have fundamentally changed the economics of development.