Condo correction spreads as Canada’s summer housing market sputters
Trade tensions and a widening condo slide pushed national home values lower in August By Liezel Once, 18 Sep. 2026 Canada’s national home values fell 3% year over year in August, according to the RPS-Wahi House Price Index. Deepening condo correction extended well beyond southern Ontario and British Columbia into Alberta and other markets and renewed trade tensions kept a lid on homebuyer confidence across the country. The index, produced by Real Property Solutions (RPS) and presented by...
read moreWhy Canada’s commercial real estate market may be poised for a comeback for institutional investors
Content from: globe content studio, Published September 15, 2026 After years of headwinds marked by rising interest rates, inflation and the lingering impacts of COVID, Canada’s commercial real estate market is showing signs of stabilization and growth. Institutional investors are reconsidering their allocations and they are looking to increase their exposure. Yet the recovery is anything but broad-based, says Jennifer Schillaci, managing director and head of Real Estate Equity Investments at...
read moreThe $500B Push That Could Redraw Canada’s CRE Map
By: Joel Bowey, September 18, 2026 By the end of the Canada Investment Summit this week, the number attached to Canada’s latest investment push had climbed to nearly $500B. Adam Jacobs was looking somewhere else: the map. “I think we might see some legitimately new markets emerge,” the head of research in Canada at Colliers told Connect. The federal figure is not $500B of construction spending. It includes investment commitments and lending capacity across infrastructure, energy, critical...
read moreCanada’s Plan To Fix Housing? Just Change What Affordable Means
Stephen Punwasi, September 17, 2026 Canada’s building boom and slowing population growth finally pushed it closer to its affordability target. Just kidding. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation‘s (CMHC) 2026 Housing Supply Report shows it was never a real target. Despite billions in subsidies and slower population growth, its estimated gap barely budged. The agency’s latest report pushes the target further back, while lowering the bar for affordability. The affordability target has...
read moreWEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21, EVENTS WITH JILLIAN KATZENBACK
Events for the week of September 21, 2026 2026 Breast Ball Charity Golf – MAC Awards – ARLA Webinars – RHPNS Women in Industry Luncheon – 2026 Informa Buildings Show – CCI Race to the AGM –2026 ACMO – CCI Condo Conference – CREDA Lunch & CREDA CRE8 Summit – ULI Toronto Annual Trends in Real Estate – CHBA National Awards & CHBA Webinar – 2026 Alberta Buildex...
read moreWEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14, EVENTS WITH JILLIAN KATZENBACK
Events for the week of September 14, 2026 2026 RHPNS Golf Tournament – 2026 Breast Ball Charity Golf – MAC Awards – ARLA Webinars – RHPNS Women in Industry Luncheon – 3rd Annual Tycos Drive Trade Day – 2026 Informa Buildings Show – 2026 ACMO – CCI Condo Conference – CREDA Lunch & CREDA CRE8 Summit – CHBA National Awards & CHBA Webinar – 2026 Alberta Buildex...
read moreSlowing home construction threatens recent affordability gains: CMHC
Ottawa, September 10, 2026 Recent gains in housing affordability in Canada are at risk as new home construction slows, especially in the homeownership market, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) latest Housing Supply Report. New estimates show that Canada’s housing starts need to rise to between 417,000 and 469,000 annually to restore affordability to pre-pandemic levels by 2036, leaving the country’s housing supply gap broadly unchanged from 2025. Since...
read moreTariffs on U.S. homebuilding materials will raise costs, industry warns
Rachelle Younglai, Real Estate Reporter, Published September 11, 2026 Stainless steel sinks, plywood and other homebuilding products from the U.S. will be hit with tariffs up to 50 per cent because of the trade war, driving up construction costs when the building industry has already been dealing with years of rising expenses. The Canadian countertariffs on $28-billion of U.S. goods took effect on Tuesday and cover hundreds of items, including key homebuilding components such as heating and...
read moreBenjamin Tal: This transition period will lead to better things
CIBC economist says Canada is adding ‘oxygen’ to the economy with major investments in infrastructure Steve McLean Business Writer, Commercial Economy National September 10, 2026 “The situation is not good” is how CIBC Capital Markets managing director and deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal began his speech to open the Canadian Apartment Investment Conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre yesterday morning. “We are trying to make sense of something that does not make...
read moreManitoba’s maximum rent increase set at 3% for next year
Guideline for this year is 1.8% Arturo Chang · CBC News · Posted: Sep 03, 2026 The maximum permitted rent increase for most residential properties in Manitoba has been set to three per cent in 2027. The provincial government said in a news release Thursday that tenants whose rent is going up on Jan. 1 must receive notice by Sept. 30. The rent increase guideline is calculated based on inflation and is capped within the Bank of Canada’s inflation control target range, which is currently...
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