Real Estate

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in April edged down one per cent compared with March.

In planning documents recently filed with the city, GWL Realty Advisors says its proposal includes a pair of towers at 170 Slater St. between Bank and O’Connor streets. 

Ottawa home sales jumped 8.9 per cent in April compared with the same month last year as “mutual confidence among both buyers and sellers” gave the market a lift, the Ottawa Real Estate Board says.

Taggart Realty Management has filed an application with the city that calls for four mid-rise buildings with a total of 650 units at 3930 and 3960 Riverside Dr., just northwest of the intersection of Riverside Drive and West Hunt Club Road.

The head of Ottawa-based Creative Dev Ventures says communities in the area must be willing to cooperate and be creative to facilitate more housing and development options.

A Gatineau company plans to convert Telesat’s former headquarters in Gloucester to housing and build three additional...

A Toronto firm behind one of downtown Ottawa’s biggest mixed-use developments says it hopes to break ground next year on another project that could see thousands of housing units built in Kanata North.

The head of a Crown corporation that buys and develops federal properties says he’s hoping to speed up projects such as converting empty government office buildings into apartments in a bid to boost Ottawa’s housing stock.

Public Services and Procurement Canada, which owns or leases more than 30 million square feet of office space in Ottawa-Gatineau, plans to reduce its office footprint by up to 50 per cent over the next decade in an effort to lower operating costs and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

In its revised application filed with the city, Devmont says it is scaling back the height of the main tower in its proposal for 6310 Hazeldean Rd., across the street from Stittsville Corners Shopping Plaza, and is readjusting the size of other parts of the development to maintain the same number of units.