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Context

Canada’s level of built space per capita is one of the highest in the world. This is the direct result of several key factors:
• our small household sizes
• our high level of home ownership
• our diverse and vibrant industrial and service-orientated economic base
• the health of both our central city and suburban retailing
• our celebration of outdoor recreation and second home lifestyles

Drivers

Real estate in Canada today is driven by the cost of money, NAFTA-generated activity, international and internal migration patterns, and demographic change. A new level of government intervention is steering development to areas best served with public infrastructure. Building and design are being geared to ever-higher environmental performance. Income trusts are accelerating property management consolidation. Industry, business and government are increasingly outsourcing. Foreign purchasers are finding Canadian recreational and rural property increasingly irresistible.

Changing Client Needs

To be successful in the evolving property market it is necessary to have access to all the skills required to plan and design a successful real estate project; to have a strategic plan related to the local community in which the project is situated; and to be able to apply that technical and community knowledge to successfully navigate the regulatory approvals process.

Dillon’s Approach

We start from the premise that different clients require very differing degrees of help. We have been providing services to the Real Estate Sector for over 40 years, and have the standing capacity to provide what the client needs in all its multi-faceted dimensions, covering the full spectrum from highly specific expertise to turnkey capability. Client needs have changed as the Real Estate Sector has evolved, and in response Dillon has purposefully integrated the planning, environmental, engineering and architectural aspects of property and facility development under one roof. But we are structured to customize our services, to provide clients with only what is required for their own individual situation.