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  Timbercreek REIT unitholders approve $182.7M sale to private investor

  August 19th, 2010 - 11 h 08

  Timbercreek Real Estate Investment Trust says its unitholders have approved the trust's sale to a private investor for $182.7 million.

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  Home sales drop 30 per cent as demand dries up, but commercial market flourishes

  August 17th, 2010 - 9 h 22

  A new tax regime in Canada's two busiest housing markets caused demand for homes in British Columbia and Ontario to dry up in July, driving a 30 per cent decline in national sales activity from a year ago.

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  Supply constraints stunt recovery in local investment market

  August 16th, 2010 - 16 h 56

  Ottawa posted the smallest increase in the value of commercial real estate transactions among major Canadian markets in the first half of 2010, a new report says.

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  H&R REIT Q2 profits up more than sevenfold

  August 12th, 2010 - 14 h 32

  Property owner H&R Real Estate Investment Trust said its second-quarter earnings jumped more than sevenfold on a future tax gain and the company plans to hike its distribution in October.

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  New house prices rise slightly in June, Statistics Canada reports

  August 10th, 2010 - 10 h 48

  The New Housing Price Index rose 0.1 per cent in June following a 0.3 per cent increase in May.

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  Housing starts rise 40 per cent in Ottawa

  August 10th, 2010 - 9 h 34

  Year-over-year figures show housing starts in Ottawa bumping up 40 per cent to 763 units in July, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.

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  Piece of the puzzle: Public Works picks up L'Esplanade Laurier

  August 9th, 2010 - 13 h 55

  A decade-long feud between the federal government and a Montreal developer has ended with Public Works purchasing L’Esplanade Laurier, one of downtown Ottawa’s largest and most decrepit office buildings.

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  Ottawa sees surge in LEED registrations

  August 6th, 2010 - 13 h 44

  Local office landlords and tenants filed 25 LEED environmental registrations in the second quarter of this year, more than five times the number recorded a year earlier, according to a new report.

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  Envision Group subsidiaries win $3.8 million in new projects

  August 6th, 2010 - 10 h 40

  Two fully-owned subsidiaries of The envision Group have secured $3.8 million in new projects, the firm announced on Friday.

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  Ottawa home sales plummet in July

  August 5th, 2010 - 16 h 33

  Residential property sales sank 27.2 per cent last month compared to last July’s record-setting numbers, local realtors say.

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Other news

• July 29th, 2010 RioCan profits jump 72% in Q2
• July 28th, 2010 New home satisfaction rebounds in Ottawa
• July 28th, 2010 Envision Group lands $1.35M municipal contract
• July 27th, 2010 Rising downtown vacancies unlikely to force down rents: report
• July 27th, 2010 Still no plans for old CTV building, owner says
• July 26th, 2010 CB Richard Ellis selected for federal pilot project
• July 23rd, 2010 Delcan awarded $1.3M bridge construction services contract
• July 23rd, 2010 Centretown office sells for $1.9M
• July 22nd, 2010 Ottawa retail rents climb 9.3%
• July 19th, 2010 Parking rates plunge 17.9%
• July 19th, 2010 Goldie Mohr wins $3.4M transit construction contract
• July 16th, 2010 Primecorp closes $32.3M Montreal apartment deal
• July 15th, 2010 Corporate Research Group repays $300K to feds
• July 15th, 2010 Ottawa decline in residential real-estate mirrors national slide
• July 12th, 2010 Frito-Lay loses appetite for Barrhaven warehouse build proposal

• July 12th, 2010 ConCreate USL wins $45.2-million bridge construction contract
• July 9th, 2010 Fairlawn Plaza redevelopment approved by committee
• July 9th, 2010 NCC hands out $8.7M in roadwork contracts
• July 9th, 2010 Local housing starts jump 29% year-over-year in Q2
• July 8th, 2010 New home prices up 4.2% in May
• July 7th, 2010 Ottawa home prices increase in Q2 2010, in line with national trend: Royal LePage
• July 7th, 2010 More banks reduce fixed-term mortgages; 5 year rates now at 5.79 per cent
• July 6th, 2010 Ottawa housing market moves ‘towards balance’
• July 6th, 2010 Building permits fall 5% year-over-year in Ottawa-Gatineau
• July 2nd, 2010 Ottawa office cap rates near top in Canada
• July 2nd, 2010 DCR Phoenix facing tough day at city hall
• June 25th, 2010 HP fit-up of former Dell building to cost $2.5M
• June 25th, 2010 Vacancy in seniors’ homes climbs to 17.4%
• June 23rd, 2010 UPDATE: Ottawa buildings stand up to quake
• June 22nd, 2010 Province caps rent increases at 0.7%
• June 21st, 2010 O-Train receiving $5.1M in upgrades
• June 21st, 2010 Downtown office vacancy to hit 6% by year end: report
• June 18th, 2010 Canada Paving buys Barrhaven retail plaza
• June 16th, 2010 Home sales drop 14% year-over-year in Ottawa
• June 15th, 2010 Residential rental rates jump 7.8%
• June 14th, 2010 Prestige wins $1.8M in bus stop construction contracts
• June 14th, 2010 Feds still missing financial targets for massive real estate portfolio: report
• June 11th, 2010 Gencon buys Walkley Road office/warehouse for $5.4M
• June 8th, 2010 ByWard Market tops Ottawa retail rents
• June 8th, 2010 Townhomes push local housing starts up 39% in May
• June 7th, 2010 Multivesco wins $292.5M Gatineau federal office build contract
• June 4th, 2010 Ottawa residential permits plunge 17% in latest StatsCan numbers
• June 3rd, 2010 HST sparked pull-back in Ottawa home sales: real estate board
• June 2nd, 2010 House prices have peaked for the year, expected to decline in 2011: economist
• June 2nd, 2010 National housing market to cool: CREA

• May 31st, 2010 City appoints design panel to examine convent redevelopment plans
• May 31st, 2010 'Highly speculative' Hintonburg condo proposal draws criticism
• May 21st, 2010 Aecon to build Ikea's revamped Ottawa store
• May 20th, 2010 Ontario launches construction site safety campaign
• May 18th, 2010 RIM filling former Dell call centre, sources say
• May 18th, 2010 Developers marketing upcoming industrial builds
• May 18th, 2010 Top Ottawa construction permits in April
• May 17th, 2010 Sun Life Centre vacancy looms over downtown office market
• May 17th, 2010 City trims brownfield incentives
• May 14th, 2010 H&R REIT runs into red ink in Q1
• May 13th, 2010 Cominar REIT earns $6.4M in Q1
• May 10th, 2010 Ottawa housing starts up 45% in April
• May 7th, 2010 UPDATE 2: Broccolini wins $505.75M Gatineau office tower contracts
• May 7th, 2010 Dundee buys $11.1M St. Laurent industrial property
• May 6th, 2010 UPDATE: Building permits gain 5.3% year-over-year in Q1
• May 5th, 2010 New record set for April housing sales with 15.7% increase
• May 3rd, 2010 PCL building $35M airport parkade expansion
• May 3rd, 2010 Tougher building energy efficiency standards on horizon: McNeely
• April 30th, 2010 RioCan to develop next phase of Innes/Belcourt shopping centre in 2011
• April 28th, 2010 Phoenix proposal rebuffed by city committee
• April 22nd, 2010 Richcraft receives permit for Bay Street condos
• April 21st, 2010 Open Text takes five floors in 10 Rideau
• April 20th, 2010 Bank of Canada planning renovations for downtown headquarters
• April 20th, 2010 Investment activity up 39%
• April 20th, 2010 Construction bidding goes online
• April 19th, 2010 Public Works outsourcing slice of office leasing work
• April 16th, 2010 New investment rules mean rich get richer, poor get poorer
• April 16th, 2010 Q-C Hospital preparing $130M expansion
• April 15th, 2010 Nortel campus hits the auction block
• April 13th, 2010 The envision Group's IONA awarded $15M Saskatoon deal