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November 3, 2025
Primacorp Ventures expands senior living portfolio in Ontario
Primacorp Ventures Inc., a diversified investment company based in Vancouver led by businessman and philanthropist Dr. Peter Chung, doubled its senior living portfolio with the recent acquisition of two properties in Ontario.
July 17, 2025
Financing secured to build Canada’s largest hospital in historic public-private partnership deal
Financing has been secured in what is being called a historic deal to build Canada’s largest hospital as part of a public-private partnership that includes some major real estate lenders.
June 23, 2025
Canada's largest healthcare REIT brings in new CEO after streamlining property holdings
Canada's largest healthcare real estate investment trust is bringing in a new chief executive officer to run the company with a portfolio of 169 properties after a period of strategic review.
June 23, 2025
Invesque shareholders approve potential sale, lease of senior housing properties
Invesque, an owner of assisted living and memory care facilities, plans to sell or lease all or a portion of its portfolio of 28 properties in the United States and Canada.
June 9, 2025
Dilawri Foundation donates $60 million for cardiovascular institute at Vancouver General Hospital
Privately owned Dilawri, the largest shareholder of Automotive Properties REIT, has made a $60 million donation through its foundation to establish the Dilawri Cardiovascular Institute at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia.
April 10, 2025
IMCO manages almost 10% return despite property dragging down results
The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, the manager of billions of dollars in real estate assets, produced an overall return of nearly 10% last year but said its property holdings dragged down its results.
March 7, 2025
French real estate industry leaders hesitant to expect market rebound in 2025
The cut in key interest rates after two years of sharp and sustained rises was expected to bring greater clarity to the French real estate market in 2024, but new political and economic tensions have prevented the fog from lifting.
December 11, 2024
Montreal health science facility under construction wins global design competition
Far before the final gyprock is fastened and the last wire connected, a space for biotechnology work that aims to breathe new life into the former home of the Montreal Chest Institute has been saluted from afar.
November 8, 2024
Mitsubishi's vaccine plant in Quebec City sold to local investors
The Medicago megacomplex, a 700,000-square-foot vaccine production facility completed in 2023 but never occupied, has been sold.
November 8, 2024
When it comes to AI, French real estate players get ready for action
Some analysts call artificial intelligence the fifth industrial revolution, others classify it as a technological disruption on a par with the invention of the printing press. Made accessible to the greatest number with the emergence of platforms such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini, AI is advancing at breakneck speed and disrupting all sectors of the economy. To take advantage of its many promises, real estate players need to get in on the action today — or risk being left behind.
November 5, 2024
European real estate professionals cautiously optimistic for 2025
The 1,143 real estate professionals consulted by Urban Land Institute and PwC for their study 'Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2025' are cautiously optimistic, partly reassured by the interest-rate environment fostered by central banks. However, growing geopolitical uncertainty and weak economic growth remain major concerns.
October 16, 2024
Hines looks to step up its focus on tenant satisfaction in North America
Jonathan Pearce has joined Hines as senior managing director, tasked with leading the global real estate investment firm’s leasing and tenant engagement strategies across Canada, while also focusing on customer satisfaction.
October 15, 2024
Walgreens to shut 1,200 stores as it joins other pharmacy chains slashing their footprints
Pharmacy giant Walgreens Boots Alliance plans to close roughly about 1,200 underperforming U.S. stores, including around 500 over the next year, as it joins other drug store chains and retailers downsizing their fleets to create more profitable brick-and-mortar footprints.
September 25, 2024
Why the local drugstore could become a plasma collection center, restaurant or even a dog park
To get a sense of what's happening to shuttered drugstores as national chains streamline, take a look at one retail building in the affluent Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Georgia. Where pharmacists once dispensed pills and shoppers bought toothpaste, dog owners can now sip cocktails and nibble on appetizers as their pooches play in a fenced-in park adjacent to the restaurant.
September 19, 2024
Senior housing operator opens long-term care facility in Vancouver as demand rises in region
Sunrise Senior Living, one of North America’s largest senior care facility owners and operators, has expanded its presence in British Columbia, opening a 105-unit long-term and memory care facility in central Vancouver as demand rises in the region.
September 18, 2024
Quebec's largest pension fund moves forward with life science facility in India
Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate arm of Quebec’s public pension fund, has received $50 million from HSBC India to Neovantage Innovation Parks, a joint venture between Ivanhoé Cambridge and Lighthouse Canton, a Singapore-based international investment institution led by founder Shilpi Chowdhary.
September 10, 2024
Medical building in Montreal suburbs seeks new owner
Brunswick Medical Centre, a four-floor structure considered a vital resource in the private healthcare chain in Montreal’s affluent suburban West Island region, has been listed for sale.
September 5, 2024
Long-term care facility breaks ground in British Columbia's fast-expanding Surrey
A 125-bed long-term care home has broken ground in Surrey, projected to become British Columbia's most populous city by the end of the decade.
July 2, 2024
Canadian Firm Taps US Dealmaker To Attract Investment, CBRE Lands Multifamily Team in California, Savills Appoints Florida Leaders
Canadian Firm Taps US Dealmaker To Attract Investment
June 20, 2024
There Might Be Lab Space in Your Office Tower's Future
When the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine needed to expand its laboratory near its urban campus, the institution found that such space is at a premium in Canada's largest city. And having employees doing biotechnology work from home wasn't a viable option, so the school had to conduct a different type of lab experiment.

Primacorp Ventures expands senior living portfolio in Ontario

Financing secured to build Canada’s largest hospital in historic public-private partnership deal

Canada's largest healthcare REIT brings in new CEO after streamlining property holdings

Invesque shareholders approve potential sale, lease of senior housing properties

Dilawri Foundation donates $60 million for cardiovascular institute at Vancouver General Hospital

IMCO manages almost 10% return despite property dragging down results

French real estate industry leaders hesitant to expect market rebound in 2025

Montreal health science facility under construction wins global design competition

Mitsubishi's vaccine plant in Quebec City sold to local investors

When it comes to AI, French real estate players get ready for action

European real estate professionals cautiously optimistic for 2025

Hines looks to step up its focus on tenant satisfaction in North America

Walgreens to shut 1,200 stores as it joins other pharmacy chains slashing their footprints

Why the local drugstore could become a plasma collection center, restaurant or even a dog park

Senior housing operator opens long-term care facility in Vancouver as demand rises in region

Quebec's largest pension fund moves forward with life science facility in India

Medical building in Montreal suburbs seeks new owner

Long-term care facility breaks ground in British Columbia's fast-expanding Surrey

Canadian Firm Taps US Dealmaker To Attract Investment, CBRE Lands Multifamily Team in California, Savills Appoints Florida Leaders

There Might Be Lab Space in Your Office Tower's Future

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