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3 days ago | 
renx.ca | Steve McLean |Don Wilcox |Evan Duggan |John Dujay
CPKC managing director of business development and transload Eric Goodman. (Courtesy CPKC)Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) has certified its first nine "site-ready" rail-served locations across North America for potential industrial or logistics development, including sites in Alberta and Quebec. Calgary-headquartered CPKC, created via the April 2023 merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, is the only single-line transnational railway linking Canada, the United States and Mexico.
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3 days ago | 
renx.ca | Steve McLean |Evan Duggan |John Dujay
Marc Ricou is the executive vice-president, commercial at Bosa Properties. (Courtesy Bosa Properties)Bosa Properties has bought two properties along Kingsway in the Royal Oak neighbourhood in Burnaby, including one that is operating as the Best Western Plus Burnaby Hotel. The deal, brokered by NAI Commercial, includes a 2.7-acre site with the hotel at 5411 Kingsway, as well as the adjacent 0.17-acre parcel at 5367 Kingsway.
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1 week ago | 
renxhomes.ca | Tyler Choi |John Dujay
A factory-built home being assembled. (Courtesy Ontario Real Estate Association)Factory-built housing can play an important role in reducing the cost of housing in Ontario by rapidly introducing more supply, according to a report by the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA).
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2 weeks ago | 
renxhomes.ca | Tyler Choi |John Dujay
Housing prices in Toronto and Vancouver dipped, but prices rose across mosts of the rest of Canada, according to Royal LePage. (Courtesy Royal LePage)Home prices in the expensive Greater Toronto and Vancouver markets ticked down, as they rose in Quebec, the Prairies and Atlantic Canada, according to Royal LePage's Q1 2025 national housing market report.
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2 weeks ago | 
renxhomes.ca | Tyler Choi |John Dujay |Evan Duggan
Vesta takes luxury to suburban Calgary city, with Monarch condos Langley, B.C.-based company is building the first multifamily style residences in Cooper's Crossing Business editor Monarch condos will represent the first luxury low-rise housing product in Airdrie, Alta., Vesta says.
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2 weeks ago | 
renxhomes.ca | Tyler Choi |Don Wilcox |John Dujay
GTA new housing sales hit 'rock bottom' record low: BILD Year-over-year February sales fell 50 per cent; down 84 per cent compared to 10-year average Business editor February new home sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) were the lowest on record, plunging 50 per cent from last year and 84 per cent below the 10-year average, according to a homebuilding industry group.
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2 weeks ago | 
renxhomes.ca | Tyler Choi |John Dujay
A rendering of townhomes at Ridgewood. (Courtesy Polygon Homes)Lines formed at dawn for the first release of Polygon Homes’ Ridgewood community in Coquitlam, B.C., a testament to its strong appeal on value and that buyers are returning despite economic uncertainty says company president Neil Chrystal. A three- and four-bedroom townhome community on Burke Mountain, Ridgewood's first release of 22 units sold within a few days, with aspiring buyers queueing up as early as 5:45 a.m. on launch day.
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2 weeks ago | 
renxhomes.ca | Tyler Choi |John Dujay |Neil Sharma
David-Alexandre Brassard, chief economist at CPA Canada. (Courtesy CPA Canada)Housing affordability continues to cause distress for potential Canadian homeowners, according to a new CPA Canada-BDO Debt Solutions survey, but the building industry is having challenges of its own adapting to this reality. Saving for a down payment was seen as the biggest barrier to home ownership for 32 per cent of respondents to the survey, conducted for CPA Canada and BDO.
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2 weeks ago | 
renxhomes.ca | Tyler Choi |Evan Duggan |John Dujay
The interior of 4802 - 200 Cumberland St., a luxury condo in Toronto. (Courtesy Corcoran Horizon Realty)The luxury housing market in the Toronto area shows signs of strength despite the overall downturn in housing sales activity and Canada's ongoing economic turmoil. Sotheby's International Realty Canada found sales of homes worth over $4 million in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) went up 21 per cent from 2023 to 2024.
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renxhomes.ca | Tyler Choi |John Dujay
Kestrel, Adera's stacked townhome project, will feature missing middle housing and the company's SmartWood mass timber material. (Courtesy Adera Development Corporation)Adera Development Corporation’s newest stacked townhome community, Kestrel in West Coquitlam, will be constructed out of a sustainable material developed by the Vancouver-based company which it believes is the future of the industry.
