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Flight to ExperienceThe “Flight to Quality” isn’t over—but a new trend is taking off. Across Canada, tenants are prioritizing environments that foster culture, connection and community over finishes alone.
Patrick Cheeseman • August 11, 2025
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Canadian Industrial Labour ReportThe Canadian Industrial Labour Report examines the interplay between supply and demand for industrial labour in the warehouse and manufacturing sectors, as well as supply and demand for industrial space in the region.
Kristina Bowman • June 24, 2025
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Raising the Doors on Toronto's Industrial Market ResetThe Greater Toronto Area industrial market is transitioning from a boom period to a more balanced environment.
Juana Ross • March 17, 2025
article • workplace
Behind the Vacancy: Decoding the Downtown Toronto Office MarketOver the past four years, Toronto’s Downtown office market has been characterized by soaring vacancy rates, climbing from record lows to near-record highs.
Juana Ross • December 12, 2024
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Canadian Retail SnapshotGet an overview of the Canadian retail market, featuring key highlights of the retail market in the six major Canadian markets.
Kristina Bowman • October 23, 2024
research • construction
Industrial Construction MapUse Cushman & Wakefield's interactive map to find out how much industrial commercial real estate construction activity is taking place in select North American cities.
January 11, 2024
research • investment / capital markets
The Case For Single Family Rental Investment in Ontario, CanadaWith time and investment, the single-family rental sector has the potential to evolve into a professionally managed, institutionally owned commercial real estate asset class within the larger rental housing spectrum in Canada, as it already has in the United States.
May 23, 2023
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GTA Industrial Market InsightsThis year kicked off with a shift in gears for the GTA’s industrial market. Overall vacancy inched up by 20 basis points (bps) to 1.1% on the heels of six straight quarters below the one percent mark. The uptick was due in large part to the addition of new vacancies from the older stock of less efficient buildings.
Juana Ross • May 23, 2023
research • economy
Canadian Census SeriesThroughout 2022, Cushman & Wakefield will be releasing a multi-part series that highlights key takeaways from the 2021 census data released by Statistics Canada.
Kristina Bowman • December 19, 2022
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Strategies for Addressing Data Center Power ChallengesWhile power has always been an essential part of data center site selection, how data center developers approach this problem has fundamentally changed in the past two years. Developers have always faced difficulty getting large amounts of power to a site, but today that task is more challenging than ever.
Michael Borron • December 15, 2022
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Considerations for cloud migration: A five point framework from a real estate perspectiveOnly a handful or enterprises (10% by some estimates) can be considered 'all-cloud,' while an additional one-third are 'mostly cloud' at this point. Most IT executives still see cloud as an IT optimization play. Notwithstanding, the percentage of companies with most or all IT infrastructure in the cloud is expected to increase from 41% today to 63% in the next 18 months.
October 24, 2022
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Digital Transformation & Digital Culture: When Weather becomes ClimateDigital transformation is to weather as digital culture is to climate. Aberrations in weather that become frequent result in a change in climate. Digital transformation is the current state, while digital-first or digital-only are fast becoming the norm, so we are moving to a new digital culture.
September 14, 2022
