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.

Feds pledge $168M for Gladstone Avenue affordable housing projects

Residential

Funds will go toward the construction of 698 residential units in four separate buildings at 811, 818 and 933 Gladstone Ave.

Housing starts in Ottawa-Gatineau soar 154% in August: CMHC

Residential

Builders in Ottawa began work on 1,619 new homes last month, a whopping 167 per cent increase over a year earlier, while new starts in

Snookie Lomow joins Highbridge Construction, HD Property Management

Real Estate

Lomow is best known for her role in the Ottawa 2017 celebrations.

Developer plans 29-storey apartment highrise at Holland Cross complex

Residential

LaSalle Investment Management says it wants to build a 300,000-square-foot tower with 337 rental units and ground-level commercial space.

Widening price gap increases Gatineau’s attractiveness to Ottawa residents

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New builds in Gatineau create opportunities to live in luxury condos, single-family homes and rental apartments at a fraction of the cost of comparable Ottawa

Owner of Ottawa co-working spaces seeing signs of recovery in hard-hit industry

Non-Residential

“Floodgates will open” once a vaccine is found, owner of two local facilities predicts despite news that one of the industry’s biggest companies has filed

Average Ottawa home resale prices approach $600K

Residential

A flood of new listings last month did nothing to slow the rapid increase in local home prices, the Ottawa Real Estate Board reported Thursday.

Speculation builds over prospective tenants for Shopify’s Elgin Street space

Non-Residential

‘Spectacular’ downtown office could help nurture a new generation of tech firms if they choose to replace the e-commerce giant in Performance Court, veteran broker

Cognitive dissonance creeps into Ottawa’s planning and design decisions

Real Estate

Ottawa, like many cities, experiences cognitive dissonance. We need to rethink what we are doing, and how, if we are serious about being the most

Ottawa landlords urge Ford government to ditch proposed rent freeze

Residential

Critics say plan would discourage “desperately needed” new investment in rental housing and leave property owners holding the bag for rising utility costs and taxes.