#toronto-commercial-real-estate

#toronto-commercial-real-estate

I never expected to own a home. I wasn't born into generational wealth. I grew up poor. There was-and is-no big family inheritance coming my way. Not property. Not cash. Not stocks or bonds or whatever financial instrument one might trade or sell or leverage to join the landed class.

London has been a trading and financial hub for more than a thousand years, and maintaining it as a vibrant place for finance and business is critical to the health of the UK economy.

BHI provided a $167 million construction loan to Yellowstone Real Estate Investments for the conversion of the Candler Building into a 176-unit residential tower with retail space, totaling $203 million in financing.

Canada's economy added a modest 14,000 jobs in March, following major job losses during the first two months of the year, with the unemployment rate unchanged at 6.7 percent.

Good urbanism should transcend politics. Socialists and capitalists can walk the same neighborhood and agree it's a pleasant place to live. They can each appreciate the tree canopy, the corner café with people spilling onto the sidewalk, the mix of ages on bikes and on foot, the architectural details of older buildings, and so on.

Scott Gottlieb's impressive performance in 2025 included 58 lease transactions, totaling around 2.3 million square feet, showcasing his ability to navigate a challenging office market.

Rent in a commercial lease is not just a single figure; it can be gross, net, or semi-gross, each affecting overall financial commitments differently.

The province is projecting just 64,800 housing starts this year, 10,000 fewer than it expected for this year in last year's budget and 30,000 fewer than the 2024 plan projected.

Supply Scarcity: A looming "supply cliff" for 2026 and 2027 is expected due to a 44% drop in new housing permits since 2021. This chronic lack of inventory acts as a floor for property values, preventing a broader crash.

I lost a lot of money while I was in Alberta. I had quite a lot of debt. Sure, you might save $4 or $5 on your bills, but ultimately, that's not what saved me money at all. Moving to Montreal in the summer of 2024 helped replenish the family's budget, even though la belle province is notorious for its higher taxes.

In early January, the Ford government's return-to-office (RTO) mandate took effect, ordering 60,000 public servants back to the office. The move culminates more than a year of RTO mandates from big names in tech and finance, reaching a fever pitch in late 2025, and has put a significant amount of pressure on Toronto's office market. The trend is reversing years of near-stagnant activity in the downtown commercial real estate scene, which took a big hit from COVID-era work-from-home policies.

Toronto's real estate association says it expects home price and sales weakness to persist for at least the first half of the year. The outlook came as the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) says home sales for January fell 19.3 per cent from a year earlier, while the average selling price dropped 6.5 per cent. Active listings rose 8.1 per cent. The board says home sales totalled 3,082 in January, while the average selling price was $973,289. There were 17,975 active listings.

[He] has been renting for the last eight years, just saving his money, Milonas told CBC Toronto. We had a chat pre-Christmas and he was like, What do you think? Is this the right time for me?' TRREB says lower condo prices could lead to another housing shortage if the current inventory is bought up quickly. (Cole Burston/Canadian Press) Milonas has now had that question from a handful of renters, and based on the current market, he's told most of them to go for it.

"It would be prudent for market observers to resist the temptation to trace a line from the end of 2025 into 2026," said CREA senior economist Shaun Cathcart in a statement. "We continue to expect sales to move higher again as we get closer to the spring, rejoining the upward trend that was observed throughout the spring, summer and early fall of last year."

Almost all 3,600 listed heritage properties in Toronto including several national historic sites, and the Gibraltar Point lighthouse are about to lose their protection against demolition and redevelopment, because of a section in the province's More Homes Built Faster Act, heritage experts say. The act, passed in 2022 to ease the housing crunch, gives municipalities until Jan. 1, 2027 to upgrade all properties on their heritage lists to full heritage designation, which protects the structures against arbitrary demolition.