Professional Experience
Associated Office
Ruth Fischer is the Managing Director of CBRE’s operations in the Province of Quebec. She leads the brokerage activities of offices based in Montréal, Saint-Laurent and the City of Quebec. Known for building strong relationships with clients and colleagues, she has a deep understanding of brokerage, corporate solutions, client diagnostics, portfolio and workplace strategy, location analyses, master planning, and land use.
Ruth has gained cross-functional and varied expertise during 20 years of commercial real estate experience in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Her career started in Boston, Maine where she worked as an urban planner in both the public and private sectors. She pivoted briefly to academia as a researcher, before returning to her passion for city building and real estate as a research analyst for a commercial brokerage covering markets across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Moving to Canada in 2010, Ruth joined CBRE as a real estate management consultant, working primarily as an embedded strategist for a Big Five Bank. In 2015, she founded and led CBRE Canada’s Client Solutions team, a group of in-house business development and pursuit experts. As a centralized point of contact for senior leadership from all business lines, Ruth combined CBRE’s platform and local market expertise to develop strategic real estate recommendations for occupier and investor clients. In 2019, she launched CBRE’s Canadian Client Care program to offer enhanced and consistent service to investor leasing clients across the country.
Advantage Insights
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Five young CBRE brokers are navigating their first economic downturn and learning lots in the process.
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Lenders are signaling optimism in real estate as interest rate hikes appear to plateau and the amount of debt capital available to facilitate Canadian real estate transactions is expected to grow modestly in 2024.
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Ralf Carcani’s enthusiasm for advising office and lab tenants on real estate strategy and his commitment to making a positive impact on his local Montreal office helped earned him CBRE’s Eastern Canada Emerging Leader Award for 2022.
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CBRE has just added a new Debt and Structured Finance team in Quebec, enabling the company to offer unmatched access to debt capital.
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Climate Change Is a Threat to Property Values. 4 Canadian Cities Are Ranked Among the Best Prepared.
A new CBRE City Sustainability Study ranks four Canadian cities among the most climate resilient real estate markets in North America.
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A streetscape revamp and new retail deals along Sainte-Catherine Street West bring new life to downtown Montreal.
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Canadian tech markets forge ahead despite economic headwinds and layoffs, according to CBRE’s Scoring Tech Talent 2023 report.
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Data from the CBRE Canada Q2 2023 Figures reports show that national office vacancy rose to a 30-year high while the industrial availability began to soften.
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CBRE’s Rebecca Godfrey tells us about the night economy and how landlords can repurpose vacant space to make additional revenue.
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Vacancy was on the rise again in Canada’s major office markets in the first quarter of 2023, pushing the national rate to an all-time high 17.7%.