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4 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.

4 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.

2 weeks ago | renx.ca | Derek Lobo |Steve McLean |Evan Duggan |Eric Horie

I recently sat down with Mansoor Kazerouni, global director of the architecture and urbanism division at Arcadis, to discuss the shifting landscape of Canadian housing — specifically, the transformation of the condominium market and the rising relevance of purpose-built rental apartments.

3 weeks ago | renx.ca | Evan Duggan |Steve McLean |Derek Lobo |Eric Horie

David Frum, a former U.S. presidential speechwriter, Republican strategist and now Canadian-American staff writer at The Atlantic, speaks at the Vancouver Real Estate Forum. (Evan Duggan RENX)Canada faces difficult times ahead. That reality was the overriding undercurrent at the Vancouver Real Estate Forum last week, where commercial property industry leaders came together with issues like tariffs, the Canadian election, immigration and economic policy at the forefront of their minds.

3 weeks ago | renx.ca | Evan Duggan |Danny Kucharsky |Steve McLean

Byron Chard, president and CEO of Chard Development, at left, and Lilian Arishenkoff, senior vice-president, development with Wesbild. (Courtesy Chard, Wesbild)Perseverance is the mantra around the development community in B.C.'s Lower Mainland these days - as it is in many markets across Canada. Already not amused by high development charges from regional governments and facing sluggish demand for new housing and other property types, B.C. developers are anticipating more economic uncertainty.