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Developing Leader Spotlight: Blueprint for Success

  • April 22, 2026

Many children are drawn to busy construction sites with lumbering excavators digging deep piles of dirt – but not everyone gets to see a construction site up close. Growing up, MaryVictoria Montanari, a recipient of the 2025 Developing Leaders Award, spent her childhood exploring construction sites wearing a hard hat and tool belt.
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Canadian federal government building

CRE as a Catalyst: Jobs, Investment and Policy in a Shifting Canadian Economy

  • October 20, 2025
At this year’s NAIOP CRE.Converge conference, Peter Norman, Altus Group vice president and economic strategist, had the opportunity to share new insights on the economic impact of Canada’s commercial real estate sector. The presentation drew on fresh research prepared with the NAIOP Research Foundation and comes at a critical moment: when macroeconomic uncertainty, demographic shifts and policy decisions are reshaping the environment in which CRE operates.
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Parag Khanna

Why Regionalization and Resilience Will Define the Next Era of CRE Investment

  • September 10, 2025
At CRE.Converge in Toronto this week, global strategist Parag Khanna, founder and CEO of AlphaGeo, painted a bold picture of how shifting geopolitics, climate pressures and technological change are reshaping the commercial real estate landscape across North America and beyond. His central theme: Investors must look beyond risk and lean into resilience to identify the markets best positioned for long-term growth.
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Beyond the Core: Investors Eye Emerging Data Center Markets

Beyond the Core: Investors Eye Emerging Data Center Markets

  • September 10, 2025
“Data centers, for latency reasons, had to be located near certain customers, certain population hubs. So, we saw these markets emerge where there was a lot of data center concentration [such as] Northern Virginia, Dallas, Phoenix,” explained Elissa Wilson during a panel discussion this week at CRE.Converge in Toronto. But the artificial intelligence-driven surge in demand over the past two years has opened opportunities in new markets where power is still abundant and grids are less constrained.
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Capital Markets in Practice: Deals, Debt and Dynamics

  • September 10, 2025
The Canadian and U.S. real estate markets continue to move on distinct but parallel trajectories, shaped by interest rates, investor sentiment, capital structures and local regulation. That distinction is due to the delta between interest rates in both countries, said Jeff Wagner, senior managing director, IPA markets, Marcus & Millichap, during a session this week at CRE.Converge in Toronto.
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Maintaining Asset Value in an Era of Climate Change and Risk

Maintaining Asset Value in an Era of Climate Change and Risk

  • September 10, 2025
Weather and climate disasters result in catastrophic insurance losses, from wildfires to floods, winter storms and tornadoes. They’re increasing in frequency, with so-called 100-year floods now happening several times in a decade. In a CRE.Converge panel this week in Toronto, four climate and sustainability experts gathered to discuss how commercial real estate assets are impacted in an era of climate change.
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How Redevelopment, Demographics and Growth Are Shaping Canadian CRE

How Redevelopment, Demographics and Growth Are Shaping Canadian CRE

  • September 10, 2025
Commercial real estate has faced challenges in the last year due to an uncertain macroeconomic environment and demographic shifts, said Peter Norman, vice president and economic strategist, Altus Group, at NAIOP’s CRE.Converge conference this week in Toronto.
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Data center boom

Four Ways That Sustainability Is Changing the Data Center Boom

  • September 10, 2025
Since the first wave of the data center boom in the early 2010s, when fiber optic technology separated from copper and could carry large amounts of data, this evolving sector of commercial real estate has become an area of major focus today, especially when it comes to building with sustainability in mind.
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