Canada
Global Cities Price Growth Slows Further in Q3
Real Capital Analytics / November 14th, 2019The pace of global commercial property price growth slowed further in the third quarter of 2019, reined in by weaker...
Industrial Price Growth, Rarely in Lockstep, Is Now
Jim Costello / August 30th, 2019Industrial property prices have grown faster than inflation across the Americas over the last three quarters. This sort of coordinated growth does not...
Vancouver Home Prices Have Sunk. Are CRE Prices Next?
Jim Costello / July 29th, 2019Home prices have been in a sharp retreat in Vancouver, Canada’s second largest investment market. The concern for some is that commercial property prices will be pulled down...
Hey Big Spender: A Look at Canada’s Cross-Border Flows
Jim Costello / May 22nd, 2019Just as with the fortunes of Canadian teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs, Canada lost out to the U.S. for the title of top global capital source over the last 12 months. Unlike the ice hockey championship...
Putting Canada’s Flow to US in Perspective: Chart
Jim Costello / March 18th, 2019Cross-border acquisition activity in the U.S. hit a near-record level in 2018, largely thanks to a surge in transactions by Canada-headquartered investors. Just how big that surge was...
Canadian Acquisitions in US Reach Record Level
Jim Costello / November 27th, 2018Canadian acquisitions in the U.S. have reached a record level due to a cluster of large entity-level deals, the latest US Cross-Border Investment Compendium shows. Canadian investors...
Cross-Border Investment in US Edges Up in Q1
Jim Costello / May 31st, 2018Cross-border investors increased their U.S. acquisitions into 2018, and Chinese investors were the second largest investor group, the latest US Cross-Border Investment Compendium shows...
Does Price Growth in Canada Correlate?
Jim Costello / May 7th, 2018Early in my career I worked on several projects putting Canadian investment trends into a broader global perspective. The rule of thumb from other professionals at the time was that whatever happened...
Chart: Top US Markets for Cross-Border Investors
Jim Costello / March 6th, 2018Cross-border investors in U.S. commercial real estate are not a uniform bunch. Take a look at their preferred target markets in the U.S., for instance...
Cross-Border Acquisitions in the US Drop in 2017, Canada #1 Investor
Jim Costello / February 28th, 2018Cross-border acquisitions of U.S. commercial property dropped by almost one-quarter in 2017, outpacing the decline in activity by domestic capital sources, the latest US Cross-Border Investment...
