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Category: investment

January 17, 2023September 4, 2025Commercial Real Estate, investment

Ottawa CRE investments 2022: The “Big M” year

Ottawa CRE investments 2022: The “Big M” year Frank Mahovlich – “The Big M” played in NHL 1957-1978 6 Stanley Cups Hockey […]

August 22, 2022September 4, 2025Commercial Real Estate, industrial, investment, office, retail

CRE functional obsolescence: is this subject taboo, misunderstood or invisible?

CRE functional obsolescence: is this subject taboo, mis-understood or invisible? You don’t see many of these restaurants anymore. At one stage, they […]

March 21, 2022September 4, 2025Commercial Real Estate, investment, office

Can I “Supersize” that for you?

The most notable aspect of the Ottawa investment market activity through 2021 for me was scale – the size of the transactions […]

March 31, 2021September 4, 2025Commercial Real Estate, investment

Growers, Sustainers and Eroders

There was this interesting article in the Financial Times (FT) that described firms on the stock market as growers, sustainers or eroders. […]

December 2, 2020September 4, 2025investment

Covid-19 CRE investing: mired in the doldrums

No big surprise: transaction volume of sales of commercial real estate are way down since the start of Covid-19. It is a […]

November 18, 2020September 4, 2025Commercial Real Estate, investment

CRE Covid-19 investing: what type of money is in play?

I find the actions of commercial real estate investors ends up defining the type of money they look to invest. The types, […]

January 14, 2019September 4, 2025investment, office, tenants

Just what is the BMI equivalent in commercial real estate?

This reliance on an approach that is “easy to calculate” got us wondering what are some of the proxies we use in commercial real estate that provide a quick synopsis of some aspect of the market, and do they suffer similar shortcomings as BMI does in being a proxy for state of health.

March 8, 2018September 4, 2025investment, office, PSPC, tech

Ottawa investment activity review for 2017: the big boys clean house

Ottawa investment activity review for 2017: the big boys clean house What was notable with investment sales activity in Ottawa in 2017 […]

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