Investment Volumes: Investment volumes decline for the second consecutive year across all asset classes in Canada. Volumes are down 14% year-over-year and 25% from the record year in 2022. Hotels and Alternative assets witnessed strong growth in volume while industrial had the largest decline year-over-year.

Investor Buyer Profile: Private investors continue to dominate the investment market, but owner-users are the fastest growing buyer cohort.

Multifamily: Multifamily investment sales reached $9b nationally, down 3.6% versus 2023, and down 13.7% versus the five-year average. Calgary and Edmonton are each seeing record levels of apartment sales thanks to strong demographic growth and higher yields that are attracting a wider pool of buyers.

Industrial: Industrial vacancy maintained it’s upward trajectory in 2024 as the post pandemic wave of new supply was completed and user demand had its slowest year in well over a decade.