CBRE Canada established the first and only Alternative Assets Group comprised of senior capital markets and advisory professionals in Canada. This multi-disciplinary team provides unmatched coverage and strategic services to clients focused on operating businesses within the real estate sector, including hotels & resorts, seniors housing and student housing. Led by Mark Sparrow, National Practice Lead, along with leading sector expertise from Luke Scheer, Head of Hotels & Resorts and Mathew Burnett, Head of Healthcare, the combined CBRE Alternative Assets team have transacted over $10 billion over the span of their careers. This accomplished team was established to provide alignment with key relationships and clients that are specifically targeting opportunities in alternative real estate across the verticals of hotels & resorts, seniors housing and student housing.
Alternative Assets
We provide creative, hands-on hospitality expertise in all major markets, supported by a sophisticated service platform.
We focus exclusively on senior living and long-term care real estate investments and financing.
We provide transaction advisory services for purpose-built student accommodations across Canada.
Meet Our Alternative Assets Group
Recent Alternatives Insights
-
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.
-
It’s back-to-school season and CBRE is working with the University of Guelph to educate and inspire the next generation of real estate leaders.
-
Young professionals are popularizing bleisure, combining business and leisure travel and achieving better balance in the process.
-
Canadian tech markets forge ahead despite economic headwinds and layoffs, according to CBRE’s Scoring Tech Talent 2023 report.
-
CBRE just sold the final asset in a portfolio of nine Ontario medical office buildings totalling 380,869 sq. ft., on behalf of receiver KPMG.
-
CBRE’s Rebecca Godfrey tells us about the night economy and how landlords can repurpose vacant space to make additional revenue.
-
The acquisition of Apotex and the sale-leaseback of its portfolio helps to secure domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing and speaks to the strength of the Canadian industrial market.
-
Real estate today is all about energy and crafting a clean carbonless strategy. This can represent a daunting challenge for groups like law firms and banks, which host their highly sensitive data on-site in back-office servers.
-
‘The Core’ Life Sciences Campus Is The First of Its Kind in Ontario
-
OmniaBio Inc., a Canadian cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has unveiled plans for a new $580 million biomanufacturing facility in Hamilton.
2023 Investor Sentiment Survey
CBRE Alternative Assets Group conducted a 2023 Investor Sentiment Survey to further understand the 2023 outlook of Canadian Hotels & Resorts, Seniors Housing and Student Housing sectors.
Related Insights
CBRE Alternative Assets group conducted a 2023 Investor Sentiment Survey to understand the 2023 outlook of the Canadian Hotel, Seniors Housing, and Student Accommodation Sectors.
A quarterly snapshot of Canadian commercial real estate cap rates and investment trends.
CBRE Hotels prepares annual industry outlooks for the Canadian accommodation industry.
Related Services
CBRE works with lenders and capital sources to provide debt and equity funding to developers and owners for all property types—resulting in the best f...
Gain accurate insights on your property value from our experts across valuations, appraisals and advisory services, globally.
The CBRE National Investment Team is comprised of leading investment sales professionals from across Canada focusing on the sale of institutional inve...
Our Alternative Assets Group
Lic. * Sales Representative
Lic. * Sales Representative
Lic. *Sales Representative
Lic. *Sales Representative
Stay Informed
Looking for more information on the Alternative Assets Industry