WEEK OF AUGUST 10, EVENTS WITH JILLIAN KATZENBACK
Events for the week of August 10, 2026 2026 FRPO Women in Rental Housing Luncheon – MAC Awards – ARLA Golf Event– ARLA Webinar – 2026 Informa Buildings Show – 2026 ACMO – CCI Condo Conference – HDAA Dinner Meeting – CMHC Developer Survey – 2026 Toronto CREW Golf Classic – LPMA Golf – Skyline Charity Golf Classic – 2026 RHPNS Golf Tournament – 2026 Breast Ball Charity...
read moreTELUS Living opens second B.C. rental community in Nanaimo
Real estate arm of telecom has over 40 projects in its pipeline, aims to build 10,000 homes Evan Duggan Business Writer, Aug. 4 2026 TELUS Living, a development branch of the telecom company aimed at converting many of its unneeded network sites into housing, has opened its second purpose-built rental community in B.C. Located at 235 Wallace St. in downtown Nanaimo, the six-level building has 195 rental homes. The Nanaimo development is part of TELUS’ long-term strategy to repurpose...
read moreWestern Canada sees mixed financing climate for commercial real estate
Lenders like necessity retail, distribution facilities, next-gen offices Jami Makan Aug 5, 2026 The lending environment for commercial real estate in Western Canada is bifurcating, with some property types seeing more capital and others experiencing a reset or recession, experts told Western Investor. “There’s capital out there and the situation has certainly improved, but I would say it’s a lot more selective than it used to be,” said Jordan Carlson, president of the Vancouver chapter of the...
read moreRESCON: Restrictions on foreign home buyers no longer make sense
Three years later, the circumstances that justified the policy on banning foreign home buyers have largely disappeared. Richard Lyall, Published Aug 07, 2026 By any measure, Canada’s housing market in 2026 looks very different from the one that existed when the federal government imposed a ban on foreign homebuyers in 2023. At the time, policymakers were searching for ways to cool an overheated market. Home prices were surging, affordability was deteriorating, and public frustration was...
read moreAs housing starts expected to slow, major developer says Canada must continue building
CEO of Skyline expects immigration and housing demand to pick up again in the future Andrew Lam · CBC News · Posted: Aug 09, 2026 As some housing developers hold back on new construction projects, one of Canada’s largest real estate companies says it intends to keep building — and it’s important the country continues to do so. Different parts of Canada have seen record levels of housing construction in recent years. But the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation projects housing starts...
read moreWinnipeg industrial vacancy rate increases as activity surges
Developers remain confident despite return of space by some users Peter Mitham, Jul 29, 2026 Winnipeg bucked a downward trend in industrial vacancies nationwide in the second quarter, but a host of new development proposals underscores confidence among developers. The city’s industrial availability rate rose to 3.8 per cent in the quarter, according to CBRE Ltd., up from 3.4 per cent in the previous quarter and 3.2 per cent a year earlier. The increase ran counter to the national market, where...
read moreDouglas Todd: Vancouver’s ‘bait and switch’ on below-market housing (Part two)
The city has allowed dozens of rental building projects to backtrack on their earlier below-market commitments. Here’s how some happened. By Douglas Todd, Published Aug 01, 2026 The City of Vancouver’s reversal on its affordable-housing rules has been called a “bait and switch.” The term refers to a deceptive tactic where an organization “baits” clients with an attractive offer, but then “switches” it for a lower-quality option after it is too late for clients to withdraw from the...
read moreOpinion: Corporations renting out single-family homes? No problem
Lots of families who can’t afford to buy a house might still want to live in one. Why would anyone want to make that impossible for them? By Peter Shawn Taylor, Special to Financial Post, Published Jul 29, 2026 The Toronto Star and United States President Donald Trump don’t agree on much. That corporations shouldn’t rent out single-family houses is one of those rare things. In 2021, a Toronto condo developer announced plans to buy 4,000 houses and convert them into rental properties as a...
read moreCanada is building at half the 500,000-home target—and building young people into renters
By: Editorial Board, 29 July 2026 June housing starts fell to an annualized 239,000 units while ownership construction plunges to a 30-year low. Ottawa’s response is a condo bailout. Canada started homes at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 238,971 units in June, down 6 percent from May and the second straight monthly decline. That is roughly half the 500,000 homes per year the Carney government promised, and below the 430,000 to 480,000 annual starts CMHC itself says Canada needs...
read moreWEEK OF AUGUST 3, EVENTS WITH JILLIAN KATZENBACK
Events for the week of August 3, 2026 2026 FRPO Women in Rental Housing Luncheon – MAC Awards – ARLA Lawn Bowling -ARLA Golf Event – 2026 Informa Buildings Show – 2026 ACMO – CCI Condo Conference – Speakers for BUILDEX Vancouver – CMHC Developer Survey – 2026 Toronto CREW Golf Classic – LPMA Golf – Skyline Charity Golf Classic – 2026 RHPNS Golf Tournament – 2026 Breast Ball Charity...
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