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Chantal Hébert – In Pursuit of Housing: The Impact of Canada’s Federal Election

By:Building .caPosted: Oct 16th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Welcome to CREA’s REAL TIME – a podcast dedicated to sparking conversations with inspiring people about all things Canadian real estate and impacts to REALTORS® and Canadians. Canadians have had their say in Canada’s 44th[...]

Canadian housing market moves from moderate to high degree of vulnerability: CMHC

By:Building .caPosted: Sep 29th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) says home price acceleration, alongside continued overvaluation, as home prices further detach from fundamental factors, such as labour income, has created a high degree of vulnerability in Canada’s housing[...]

Google to spend $2.1 billion on Manhattan campus acquisition

By:Building .caPosted: Sep 23rd, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Rendering courtesy COOKFOX Architects via Oxford Properties NEW YORK (AP) – Google is planning to buy New York City’s St. John’s Terminal for $2.1 billion, making it the anchor of its Hudson Square campus. The announcement[...]

Long Awaited Bay Concourse Opens inside Toronto’s Union Station

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 28th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

The new Bay Concourse offers plenty of transit options. (Nitish Bissonauth photo via blog.metrolinx.com) Six years after the City of Toronto closed Union Station’s Bay Concourse for major rehabilitation and construction, the work is now[...]

Toronto most expensive city to build in Canada, but ranks 33rd worldwide

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 26th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Major U.S. cities are topping global rankings as some of the most expensive places to build, with the cost of construction set to soar over the next two years as pressure on labor and materials[...]

Calgary’s first office-to-housing conversion to begin construction

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 22nd, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Two prominent non-profit organizations have joined forces to convert a vacant downtown office tower into homes for Calgarians in need. Inn from the Cold and HomeSpace Society are partnering on a first-of-its kind project that[...]

Don’t Call it a Comeback: Toronto’s downtown core never went anywhere

By:Building .caPosted: Jun 5th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

The first quarter of 2020 was an incredible time for development in Toronto. Developers were bullish and prime development land was scarce. Unfortunately, the pandemic swiftly followed, and many developers, equity providers and purchasers hit[...]

Stantec and PUBLIC WORK selected to lead design services for Waterfront Toronto projects

By:Building .caPosted: May 14th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

Global design firm Stantec and landscape architecture and urban design firm PUBLIC WORK have been selected by Waterfront Toronto to design transformative infrastructure for the city’s waterfront. The design of the Queens Quay East Extension[...]

Federal infrastructure bank can’t meet funding plans without spending spree, PBO says

By:Building .caPosted: Apr 30th, 2021In: ConstructionNews

OTTAWA – A federal infrastructure financing agency might not meet its near-term plan to fund projects more quickly to foster economic recovery, says a new report by the parliamentary budget officer. As it stands, the budget office[...]

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals top up long term plan for affordable housing

By:Building .caPosted: Apr 21st, 2021In: ConstructionNews

OTTAWA – The federal government topped up its housing and infrastructure plans in Monday’s budget, but held back on an overhaul as homes and cities grow increasingly unaffordable. In the first budget in more than two years,[...]