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Ottawa home prices soar in February as sales hit record heights

Residential

The average price of a residential-class property jumped 27 per cent to nearly $720,000 last month compared with February 2020.

Cornwall’s SigmaPoint Technologies gets $1M federal boost

Eastern Ontario Business Journal

Manufacturer says it plans to use the loan to add to its team of 370 employees and acquire real-time analytics technology to boost its production

Bluesfest, GCTC among local attractions to land provincial arts funding

Sports and Entertainment

Nearly a dozen other Ottawa organizations also slated to get financial aid as part of $24-million package to help Ontario’s cultural sector survive the COVID-19

KPMG acquires Kanata accounting firm in bid to boost SME customer base

Ottawa

The accounting giant said this week it’s finalized an agreement to buy Vanguard Professional Corp.

Thermal Energy brews up $1M contract with multinational producer

Techopia

Ottawa clean-tech firm inks deal with ‘prominent’ North American beer producer.

Council OKs controversial Chateau Laurier addition

Non-Residential

Proposal calls for an 11-storey and a 10-storey tower with a total of 159 suites.

Judge upholds city’s bid to preserve Kanata Golf and Country Club as greenspace

Residential

Property owner ClubLink wants to partner with Minto Communities and Richcraft Homes to build more than 1,500 homes on the 71-hectare site.

Housing starts stay strong in January thanks to multi-unit builds, CMHC says

Residential

Ottawa homebuilders started work on 450 new dwellings in January, up from 371 starts in the same month in 2020, the federal agency reported this

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