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September 30, 2025
Transit ridership remains below pre-pandemic levels, but could offer clues on return-to-office mandates
Four years after the lifting of social restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians remain hesitant to use public transit.
September 26, 2025
Slowing population growth affecting demand for rental housing, retail sales
Canada’s population increased by just 0.1% during the second quarter of 2025, marking the lowest growth rate for a second quarter since 1946, except immediately after the pandemic under border restrictions.
September 26, 2025
Occupancy declines weigh down US hotel performance once again
U.S. hotel revenue per available room fell again in the week of Sept. 14-20, and the 1.4% decline was only slightly less than the previous week. Hotel occupancy once again drove the decline, falling 0.7 percentage points, although average daily rate also dipped 0.3%.
September 25, 2025
Toronto embracing food hall renaissance
Toronto is benefiting from the renaissance of the food court, led by vibrant destinations including CF Toronto Eaton Centre’s Queen’s Cross Food Hall, Wellington Market, located in the basement of the Well, and Waterworks Food Hall in a converted heritage building off Adelaide St.
September 23, 2025
Canadian travelers push their home and native land to record summer highs
Canada's hotel performance this summer has been historically strong, with August bringing in the highest occupancy for any month since August of 2014.
September 19, 2025
Multifamily investors in Edmonton alter primary targets, but continue to spend
Multifamily investment sales in Edmonton have continued on a torrid pace this year after a record-setting 2024. Total sales of rental apartments last year reached $1.68 billion, more than double the apartment property sales of $655 million recorded in 2022 and $653 million in 2023.
September 19, 2025
Vancouver multifamily property sales bounce back
Investment activity in Vancouver’s multifamily market was down 30% in the opening half of 2025 compared to the second half of 2024, an elevated level of uncertainty at the start of the year that appeared to have had an unsettling effect on multifamily investors. But there are signs of a potential second-half rebound.
September 19, 2025
Rent increases, stagnant wage growth combine to erode housing affordability in Alberta
Although rental housing in Alberta is still far more affordable than in many other parts of the country, urban areas in the province are seeing that affordability advantage slip due to the combined effects of stagnating wages and rent growth that ranked among the strongest in North America just a year ago.
September 16, 2025
Key metric for Toronto’s downtown office buildings signals investment risks are moving higher
Over the past five years, office capitalization rates, a measure of the expected yield on net operating income in the first year of owning an investment property, have expanded across the Greater Toronto Area, but nowhere more dramatically than in downtown Toronto.
September 12, 2025
Recent trend of building enormous industrial buildings may be missing the mark
Industrial real estate facilities in Canada have undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years. Buildings have grown, not just in footprint but also in vertical scale. This design trend reflects a market geared toward more-efficient facilities designed to meet the needs of modern logistics, distribution and manufacturing.
September 12, 2025
Toronto's office market may be healing, but likelihood of a full recovery remains unclear
When evaluating the health of the office market, leasing activity can offer a clear and direct trajectory of market trends. Leasing represents the total volume of new deals and renewals, and while it doesn’t account for vacated space as absorption does, it provides valuable insight into tenant demand and business confidence.
September 11, 2025
Industrial market remains resilient despite threat from higher tariffs
The U.S. trade war left an undeniable mark on the Canadian economy in the second quarter. Overall economic growth declined, while job losses continued to pile up.
September 9, 2025
More rental apartments continue to be built in Montreal than in Toronto
Montreal and Toronto have been building more purpose-built rental, or PBR, apartment units in recent years, according to data from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, or CMHC. These housing units are designed and built specifically for the rental market rather than to be listed for sale or converted to rental properties later. As of July, the country's two largest cities were adding a record number of units under construction.
September 8, 2025
Montreal's small bay industrial tenants show a strong preference for newer space
The availability rate for non-owner-occupied, existing small bay warehouses on the Island of Montreal, defined for pusposes of this analysis as those with a rentable building area of 20,000 square feet or less, has increased in recent quarters. At 3.5%, this segment's availability rate has reached it highest level since 2021.
September 8, 2025
Trade war-related job losses beginning to spread to other sectors
The trade war with the United States is continuing to threaten Canada’s economy and job market. In August, 66,000 jobs were lost across the country, adding to the 41,000 jobs lost the month before. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate rose to a new cycle high of 7.1%.
September 3, 2025
Trade war takes huge toll on Canada’s economy in the second quarter
The Canadian economy may have slipped into a recession this summer thanks to Donald Trump’s trade war.
September 3, 2025
Montreal Island’s small bay warehouse segment dominated by older stock
Montreal Island’s inventory of small bay industrial warehouses is increasingly dated. Over 80% of these facilities were built before 1990, which means that less than 20% were built over the past 35 years.
September 2, 2025
Fewer international travelers are flying to the US, but they’re projected to spend more
International inbound travel to the United States has been declining for several months, as travelers dealt with the uncertainty resulting from tariff negotiations and tightened border security.
August 27, 2025
Montreal's real estate sector grows increasingly insular as local players dominate the market
Increasingly, the most active commercial real estate buyers in Montreal are local players, and foreign capital is becoming increasingly rare. When overseas investors do purchase real estate in the city, the most likely property type is industrial.
August 27, 2025
Thousands of new apartment units have been added in Western Canada, with thousands more on the way
Apartment developers across Western Canada have certainly responded to the call to increase housing affordability. An unprecedented wave of construction activity is addressing a long-standing supply shortage, resulting in a significant transformation in the rental housing landscape that is both promising and cautionary.

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