
Real estate giant CAPREIT acquires pair of Ottawa rental properties for $95.5M
Firm says it’s buying a 50-suite apartment building at 141 Augusta St., just east of the ByWard Market, and the Surrey Place and Hunter’s Point
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Real estate giant CAPREIT acquires pair of Ottawa rental properties for $95.5M
Firm says it’s buying a 50-suite apartment building at 141 Augusta St., just east of the ByWard Market, and the Surrey Place and Hunter’s Point

KPMG welcomes Andrew Newman as Ottawa office managing partner
Newman joined the Ottawa office of KPMG in 1992 and became an audit partner in 2005.

Plan to replace James Street Pub with new mixed-use building goes to committee
Urban Capital filed an application last fall to demolish the well-known Centretown watering hole and build a 128-unit apartment complex.

Plan to rebuild fire-damaged ByWard Market eatery goes before committee
Owners of the Vittoria Trattoria restaurant want to rebuild the William Street property with a four-storey addition that would feature 16 hotel units.

Manulife boosts industrial footprint in Ottawa with $11.5M Bantree Street acquisition
It’s the second major deal for an Ottawa-area property the global investment firm has announced this week.

Carleton breaks ground on new $16M Engineering Design Centre
New 25,000-square-foot facility will feature a makerspace as well as design studios, workshops and meeting areas.

Manulife buys luxury Gatineau apartment complex for $63M
Le Vibe, a Gatineau development that includes 181 rental suites, is Manulife Investment Management’s first residential purchase in the National Capital Region.

Ottawa chefs prepare for return of meetings and conventions with new culinary offerings, services
With many conferences and conventions rescheduled, several of the city’s top chefs are hard at work planning new ways of using food to bring people

Housing starts stall in October as multi-unit builds drop dramatically
Builders started work on 930 new dwellings last month, a drop of more than 20 per cent from the 1,196 starts recorded in October 2019.

City planners urge committee to put kibosh on Kanata golf course redevelopment plan
ClubLink’s proposal calls for more than 1,500 housing units on the current site of the Kanata Golf and Country Club.
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