OBJ staff

Navigating the shifting demand for office, retail space

The prolonged work-from-home experiment – and questions about where employees will want to work, post-pandemic – is leaving many businesses unsure of their future office needs.

St. Catharines firm acquires Ottawa HVAC provider Anchor Home Comfort

Anchor provides HVAC services, water heaters and products such as humidifiers and filtration systems to customers in the National Capital Region and other parts of eastern Ontario.

Ottawa’s Jennings Real Estate proposes 139-unit apartment building near Little Italy

Firm has filed an application with the city for a 10-storey building at 18 Louisa St., just south of Gladstone Avenue near the corner of Bell Street.

InterRent REIT sees signs of market turnaround as revenues rise in Q2

Ottawa-based firm said its funds from operations – a key cash-flow metric – rose 16.5 per cent compared with the second quarter of 2020 to $17.8 million.

Home sales plummet in July, but prices keep rising: OREB

The average sale price of a residential-class property in the capital was about $685,000 last month, up 17 per cent from a year ago.

Ross Video breaks ground on $15M expansion of Iroquois manufacturing plant

The additional 55,000 square feet of space will include two new production lines to serve the firm's growing global customer base.

Ottawa-Gatineau’s unemployment rate dips to 7.1% in July

Ottawa-Gatineau employers added more than 6,000 new jobs to their payrolls last month as the economy continued to pull out of a pandemic-fuelled downturn.