by Kevin Russell | Jun 5, 2021 | News
A Twist On Traditional Student Housing Comes To Halifax HALIFAX—Construction has begun on a 141-unit building in North End Halifax destined to be a new kind of student housing. The six-storey complex is going up beside the Dalhousie University campus on Seymour...
by Kevin Russell | May 31, 2021 | News
Killam buying 11 Kitchener-Waterloo apt. buildings for $190M Killam Apartment REIT (KMT-UN-T) has an agreement to acquire an 11-building portfolio on four properties in Kitchener and Waterloo, west of Toronto, for $190.5 million. In an announcement late Tuesday, the...
by Kevin Russell | May 31, 2021 | News
CCPA-NS report: more than 30,000 permanent affordable housing units needed in NS Policies should use intersectional lens to understand why certain groups are excluded from secure housing, author says What would it take to ensure that everyone has meaningful access to...
by Kevin Russell | May 31, 2021 | News
Crombie’s $100-Million Raise Will Help Fund Pivot Into Residential Real Estate HALIFAX — New Glasgow’s Crombie REIT recently raised $100-million by selling off stock to a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Scotiabank and BMO Capital Markets, as well as its long-time...
by Kevin Russell | May 21, 2021 | News
How Ron Lovett Plans To ‘Transform’ 1,000 Affordable Housing Units In N.S., N.B HALIFAX — Halifax real estate company Vida Living made headlines earlier this month when it bought more than 1,000 units of affordable housing in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from an...
by Kevin Russell | May 21, 2021 | News
Builders’ risk insurance market remains tight Despite some softening in other sectors across the country, Canada’s builders’ risk insurance market remains tight and higher deductibles and rates continue to reign. Cansure is looking to take brokers’ headaches...