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 […]
Category: 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 […]
Asymmetrical views of leasing market statistics
Owners want to know is how much space they compete with. Occupants want to know how many options are available for the […]
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.
How did you make out in your new lease to the federal government?
The good news for Ottawa is that it is the location of the head office for the Government of Canada. The associated […]
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 […]
Reverse engineering the PSPC 80/20 ratio for rapid-transit access
Here in Ottawa the federal government dominates the office market. It employs roughly 140,000 people in a 700,000-person work force, its need […]
Shopify rocks the Ottawa market: tracing its big splash
Shopify announced in March 2017 that it will be expanding its Ottawa headquarters by leasing new accommodations at 234 Laurier Avenue West […]
The oncoming Prop Tech disruption
The thing that stood out for me at the Toronto Real Estate Forum this past December was when one of the panelists […]
Making sense of those pesky red dots that DND uses to show what it will vacate in Ottawa
I am reminded of an old Mork and Mindy episode. Robin Williams as Mork, the alien from Ork, has a policy of […]