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Housing starts in Ottawa-Gatineau soar 154% in August: CMHC

Builders in Ottawa began work on 1,619 new homes last month, a whopping 167 per cent increase over a year earlier, while new starts in Gatineau also rose.

Snookie Lomow joins Highbridge Construction, HD Property Management

Lomow is best known for her role in the Ottawa 2017 celebrations.

Developer plans 29-storey apartment highrise at Holland Cross complex

LaSalle Investment Management says it wants to build a 300,000-square-foot tower with 337 rental units and ground-level commercial space.

Widening price gap increases Gatineau’s attractiveness to Ottawa residents

New builds in Gatineau create opportunities to live in luxury condos, single-family homes and rental apartments at a fraction of the cost of comparable Ottawa real estate.

Owner of Ottawa co-working spaces seeing signs of recovery in hard-hit industry

"Floodgates will open" once a vaccine is found, owner of two local facilities predicts despite news that one of the industry's biggest companies has filed for creditor protection.

Average Ottawa home resale prices approach $600K

A flood of new listings last month did nothing to slow the rapid increase in local home...

Speculation builds over prospective tenants for Shopify’s Elgin Street space

'Spectacular' downtown office could help nurture a new generation of tech firms if they choose to replace the e-commerce giant in Performance Court, veteran broker says.

Cognitive dissonance creeps into Ottawa’s planning and design decisions

Ottawa, like many cities, experiences cognitive dissonance. We need to rethink what we are doing, and how, if we are serious about being the most livable mid-sized city in North America.

Ottawa landlords urge Ford government to ditch proposed rent freeze

Critics say plan would discourage “desperately needed” new investment in rental housing and leave property owners holding the bag for rising utility costs and taxes.

Shopify set to vacate 170,000-square-foot Elgin Street HQ in bid to reduce office footprint

E-commerce giant plans to sublease its signature space at Performance Court and consolidate its downtown Ottawa office footprint at a building on nearby Laurier Avenue.
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