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Group Oradev recently filed a development application that calls for the industrial building and attached three-storey office complex that currently occupy 400 Coventry Rd. to be torn down and replaced with seven highrises ranging from 18 to 30 storeys.Â
The capital’s industrial availability rate hit 2.6 per cent in the fourth quarter, CBRE said in its latest national market report, up 90 basis points from a year earlier.Â
That’s up from 10 per cent in the previous quarter and more than four percentage points higher than it was in late 2019, before the pandemic triggered a dramatic shift to remote work that hollowed out office towers across North America.
Mississauga-based real estate firm said Monday it finalized a deal late last month to purchase a 50 per cent share in Telus's Ottawa headquarters at 215 Slater St. from TD Asset Management.
Overall, home sales in Ottawa fell 25 per cent in 2022 from the previous year, with a total of 15,288 properties changing hands, compared with 20,289 in 2021.
The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of starts – a six-month rolling average designed to smooth out monthly fluctuations – was 14,691 units last month, down from 19,607 in October.