Real Estate

Coverage commercial, industrial and residential real estate, breaking news on land development, major projects, and trends impacting real estate in the Ottawa area.

Toronto firm raising capital to finance $133M Ottawa-Gatineau shopping centres deal

Non-Residential

A Toronto-based real estate firm is raising capital to finance its new stake in a portfolio of shopping centres across Ontario and Quebec, half of

Revamped Ottawa Hiltons ‘crown jewel’ of Morguard’s hotel portfolio: CEO

Non-Residential

Sitting in a brightly lit restaurant at Ottawa’s newest downtown hotel property on Monday afternoon, Morguard CEO K. Rai Sahi was beaming like the father

PCL wins $217.6M contract to revamp major federal government complex in Gatineau

Non-Residential

A few days after the National Capital Commission approved final designs for the revitalization of a prominent public-sector workplace in Gatineau, the federal government has

Gatineau home sales pick up steam in Q1 2019

Residential

Home sales in Gatineau rose 16 per cent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2019, fuelled by a surge in transactions in the single-family and

Veteran litigator K. Scott McLean joins Mann Lawyers LLP

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New General Counsel and Director of Practice Management sees opportunity to recruit and mentor young lawyers

Planning committee defers proposal for nine storeys on Oblats Avenue

Residential

A proposal for a nine-storey apartment complex in front of a former monastery in Old Ottawa East has been put on hold while the developer

Ottawa office availability rate shrinks to 4.8% in Q1 2019

Non-Residential

A spike in companies relocating from suburbia to the city centre and burgeoning growth in Kanata’s tech sector continued to shrink the amount of available

Flurry of building in Gatineau boosts National Capital Region’s total March housing starts

Residential

A surge in the construction of rental units on the Quebec side of the river fuelled a 63 per cent jump in year-over-year housing starts

Minto Apartment REIT acquires $209M stakes in Montreal, Toronto properties

Residential

Ottawa-based Minto Apartment REIT (TSX:MI.UN) is deepening its reach in Toronto and entering the Montreal market for the first time with two sizeable property deals

Ottawa now Canada’s fourth-most-expensive housing market: Royal LePage

Residential

Ottawa’s aggregate home price surpassed Calgary’s for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2019 – making the capital the fourth-most-expensive housing market