Real Estate

As municipal leaders brainstorm new ways to revitalize Ottawa’s downtown in a post-pandemic world, real estate insiders say making the office-to-residential conversion process easier by cutting red tape at city hall should be right at the top of their agenda.

The Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act took effect on the first of January – but what does it really mean?

Gatineau developer Construction Chartro's plan calls for four six-storey apartment buildings St. Joseph Boulevard, east of the Tenth Line Road on-ramps to Highway 174.

Gatineau’s seasonally adjusted rate of housing starts – a six-month rolling average designed to smooth out monthly fluctuations – dropped to 13 in December from 8,573 in November.

Minto has named Jonathan Li, who is currently the REIT’s president and chief operating officer, as Waters' replacement.

The Canadian Real Estate Association expects home sales to edge down less than one per cent and prices to fall almost six per cent from 2022, which ended with the market in a sluggish state as sellers and buyers sat on the sidelines.

Sales of homes worth at least $1 million rose in Ottawa last year even as overall transactions...

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. 

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.