In Vancouver, the industrial market's first quarter shifted away from the trend of high demand and low supply, with the lowest amount of space absorbed in almost ten years. Colliers | realestate BC industrial industrialrealestate
In the past half-decade or so, the industrial real estate market in BC has been increasingly defined by the high demand and low supply of such space, which makes what occurred in Q1 that much more notable: Vancouver just saw the lowest amount of industrial space absorbed in nearly a decade.published by Colliers last week, 710,000 sq. ft of new supply was added to the market in Q1, but just 36,116 sq.
Aside from the low amount of land and space, the other factor that has defined the industrial real estate market in BC is the incredibly high prices. While the former changed in the past quarter, the latter has not. Vancouver remains the only market in all of Canada with a net asking rent of over $20 per sq. ft, at $22.09 — up nearly $1 from the $21.10 in Q4 2022 and nearly $4 more than both Victoria and Toronto.
“Industrial leasing [nationally] is as strong as ever,” Colliers’ Senior National Director of Research Adam Jacobs told STOREYS, “and there’s no end in sight.” Jacobs says that fluctuating interest rates can slow down sales and transactions, but has less of an effect on leasing. There’s so much demand that builders often do not even really need to have tenants secured in advance, meaning the low aborption seen in Q1 is more than likely just a negligible blip.
On Vancouver, Jacobs says that “rents are so high in Vancouver you can do things that don’t necessarily make sense elsewhere.” Those things include strata industrial space and, both of which he says are fairly common in British Columbia, but a lot less so elsewhere. He adds, however, that BC is a bit of a vanguard on the industrial front and that what has happened in BC will likely turn up in places like Ontario a few years from now.
One other trend that has become increasingly common is that land parcels being used for industrial projects now are shrinking.
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