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Across North America, an office development boom is underway, with 146,500,000 square feet of space under construction right now, according to a recent report by Colliers International.<\/p>\n

Of this under-construction office space, nearly 20.8 million square feet are being built in Canada \u2013 which might seem like a fairly modest proportion of North America as a whole. However, relative to the size of the office markets and population in each country, Colliers said that Canada\u2019s pace of office construction is 87% higher than that of the US.<\/p>\n

Why so much more activity in Canadian office development than in the US?<\/p>\n

The Colliers report said, \u201cReasons for Canada having a higher proportion of the overall construction compared to its overall population include :<\/p>\n

\u2022 Canada benefiting from high growth in office based employment industries;
\n\u2022 Canada\u2019s substantially lower office vacancy rate is driving new office construction (only three United States cities have vacancy rates lower than the Canadian average of 9.2 per cent); and
\n\u2022 Canada\u2019s more open immigration policies and societal multiculturalism are enabling employment and population growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, Canada\u2019s three largest markets make up half of the top six markets in terms of new premises being added to the market, with Vancouver in first place adding 6.8% [of the new office space in Canada], Toronto in fifth place adding 4.2% and Montreal in sixth adding 3.6%.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ultra-low vacancy rates and corresponding need for new office supply are key to the high levels of construction. Vancouver and Toronto were recently named the two office markets with the lowest vacancy rates in all of North America, both at just 2.6%, with San Francisco coming in third.<\/p>\n

Colliers is not concerned that the wave of new supply of Canadian office space will become a glut that remains unabsorbed. The commercial brokerage added in its report, \u201cCanada has a higher office density per census population than the United States. This combined with a lower average [office] vacancy rate (9.2% compared to 11.6%) show that Canada has a well urbanized population of knowledge workers and will more easily absorb the new office buildings under construction. Without the capacity to allow employers to grow and new companies to enter the market, the potential for growth in Canada would be muted; the new wave of office construction is further cementing Canada as a desirable location for new office employment growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report comes as major US companies such as Apple and WeWork reveal plans to take up space in under-construction office buildings in Vancouver and Calgary. They are following the footsteps of companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, which will set up its new Vancouver headquarters in the redevelopment Canada Post building.<\/p>\n

Colliers : Canadian’s Office Construction Outpacing US’s by Nearly Double<\/a> by Joannah Connolly | Glacier Media Real Estate | Business in Vancouver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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