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.

Crestpoint buys Amazon’s Barrhaven fulfilment centre from Broccolini for $494M

T.O.-based firm acquires 90 per cent stake in 2.8-million-square-foot warehouse, which opened last year and is the largest facility of its kind in Canada.

Million-dollar-plus ‘luxury’ home sales booming in Ottawa, Re/Max says

A total of 1,766 homes sold for at least $1 million in Ottawa in 2021, more than double the previous year’s tally of 750 such “luxury” transactions, the firm says.

Dream team: NCC chooses firm behind Zibi project to develop LeBreton’s library lands

NCC is selling 1.1-hectare site between the Pimisi LRT station and the future main branch of the Ottawa Public Library to a group led by Toronto-based Dream for $30 million.

‘Office space is going to evolve’: Why brokers remain bullish on the future

Local real estate experts say that while office space is here to stay, it will likely be configured very differently once people start returning to their cubicles en masse.

Ottawa-Gatineau housing starts nosedive in December: CMHC

Builders started work on 393 new dwellings in the region last month, a steep drop from the 1,074 starts recorded in December 2020.

Canadian home sales set new record in 2021, topping previous high by 20%: CREA

Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday that about 667,000 residential properties changed hands in 2021, about 30 per cent more than the 10-year average.

Ottawa home prices jump 17% in Q4: Royal LePage

Median price of a single-family detached home in the capital rose 20 per cent year-over-year to $876,600 in the quarter, while condo prices increased 11.5 per cent to $417,700.

Capital’s office vacancy rate drops to 8.6% in Q4

Downtown vacancy rate of 9.9 per cent last quarter was the third-lowest in North America behind Vancouver and Toronto, real estate firm CBRE says.

‘Potential everywhere’: Montreal buyer of Lansdowne properties going all in on Ottawa market

BRB REIT's portfolio in the National Capital Region now includes more than 650,000 square feet of space at nine office buildings and one industrial property.

Lansdowne, IBM properties acquired as flurry of Ottawa office deals continues

Marquee transactions worth a combined $87 million have Ottawa brokerage predicting the new year will pick up right where a frothy 2021 left off for the city's office market.
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