Calgary leads country in head offices

CALGARY — Calgary has the largest number of head offices per 100,000 population in the country, according to a report released Tuesday by Statistics Canada.

The federal agency said the ratio in Calgary was 17.7 in 2011, followed by Toronto (12.6), Winnipeg (11.9), Edmonton and Montreal (both 10.4), and Vancouver (10.2).

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Canadian office vacancy rates fall, Calgary most active

A still-challenging economy from mid-2011 to mid-2012 doesn’t appear to have hurt the corporate real estate market in most of Canada’s major cities, says a new report.

Office vacancy rates in that period fell significantly in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Vancouver, according to Newmark Knight Frank Devencore’s national office market report for 2012.

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