Real Estate Returns Remain Below Long-Term Norms
The MSCI/Real Property Association of Canada (REALPAC) Canadian Property Index fell last year from 2024 and remained well below historical norms. The index had a total return on standing assets, [...]
SmartCentres Ends 2025 on a High: NOI Growth, Development Progress
SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust (SRU-UN-T) reported an industry-leading, in-place and committed occupancy of 98.6-per cent in its retail properties while its overall year-end net operating income (NOI) rose by [...]
Shifting Sentiment By Investors, Lenders, Tenants Spells Optimism For GTA Office Market
The GTA's office market is experiencing important shifts in investment sentiment that should provoke optimism, and even bullishness, for the asset class. The catch is that those positive signs and [...]
Slow Recovery in Canadian Office Sector
These figures are reflective of a slow but steady recovery in the Canadian office leasing landscape during 2025, and came despite Allied selling several assets as part of a previously [...]
Oxford Puts Prime Downtown Toronto Office Complex On Sale Block
UPDATED: Oxford Properties is testing the office transaction market with one of its most significant Toronto holdings, placing the Citigroup Place tower in downtown Toronto up for sale. The intention [...]
The Great Decoupling In Industrial Real Estate Leasing
GUEST SUBMISSION: It’s obvious to most players in the Greater Toronto Area industrial leasing market that the sector has slowed over the past 24 months. What’s less obvious and quite intriguing [...]
GWLRA to Create Amenities Building for One Adelaide Office Tower
As more and more workers return to downtown offices, the buildings they are returning to are rapidly being upgraded to welcome them. GWL Realty Advisors' One Adelaide East office tower [...]
CRE Transaction Activity Forecast To Take Big Jump
“Uncertainty” remains the watchword for commercial real estate in 2026, according to CBRE’s Canada Real Estate Market Outlook, which nonetheless forecasts a significant eight per cent-plus rise in real estate [...]
Top-10 CRE Transactions of 2025 in the GTA and GGH
Continuing uncertainty pushed total commercial real estate transaction dollar amounts in seven major asset classes and Canadian regions down to $50.6 billion last year — down from $56.4 billion in [...]
As Older Industrial Buildings Bleed Occupancy, GTA Owners Seek Strategic Upgrades
By Stephen & Mariya Lilly TorontoCommercialProperties.Ca • February 26, 2026 The industrial real estate market in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) — long a top performer among commercial real estate asset classes [...]
