Professional Experience
Paul Morassutti is Chairman of CBRE Limited and previously lead CBRE’s Valuation and Advisory team in Canada. Paul has a wide ranging background encompassing all facets of Institutional real estate and land development. He is also a member of CBRE’s Executive Management Committee and Canadian Executive Council.
Paul has authored numerous articles and has appeared in and on BNN, Bloomberg News, the CBC, The Globe & Mail, The Economist and the National Post among others. He is a frequent guest speaker at commercial real estate conferences and events and has developed and presented multi-day, in-house valuation training for groups such as Realpac, NAIOP, the Appraisal Institute of Canada and Brookfield Financial.
Paul is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and previously sat on the Advisory Board for the Schulich School of Business MBA Program in Real Estate and Infrastructure. He is also a past Director of Artscape where he chaired the Project Development committee.
Advantage Insights
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Toronto's office market saw a 50 bps drop in vacancy to 18.5% in Q1 2025, while national industrial availability rose to 5.0% amid tariff concerns.
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Panelists at the CBRE Capital Lenders’ Forum agreed: It’s tough to predict the impact of the Trump Administration’s tariffs on Canadian commercial real estate markets.
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Paul Morassutti predicts a more active 2025 for Canadian real estate due to falling interest rates and returning capital.
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As awareness around sustainability and decarbonization builds in Canada’s commercial real estate industry, questions related to the “green” value premium (or conversely, the “brown” value discount) abound.
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CBRE’s Scoring Tech Talent 2024 ranks the top North American tech markets. This year, tech talent growth boosted Toronto back to the #4 spot.
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Stable aptly describes Canadian office markets in the second quarter of 2024, with overall office vacancy holding at 18.5% nationally and the number of markets seeing improved downtown conditions continuing to grow.
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CBRE Canada Chairman says landlords who aren’t reviewing “every single last spec” of how they operate and maintain buildings will see the value of their portfolios decrease as decarbonization becomes industry standard.
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Is Canada's commercial real estate still attractive despite a 33% capital gains tax increase? Explore the potential consequences for investors, tech companies, and the overall market
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Canadian office and industrial real estate figures for Q1 2024
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CBRE’s new Canada Real Estate Market Outlook forecasts that commercial real estate investment activity will recover in 2024 as credit conditions return to normal.