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RealREIT
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building
Wednesday, September 10, 2025|Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building

The nation's only Real Estate Investment Trust conference

Connect with 500+ senior level attendees, including 160+ attendees from REITs, and 35+ industry expert speakers.

Registration is now open for 2025!

Secure your spot at next year's conference at our lowest rate!

Recap all the action from the 2024 conference

22 years and counting as Canada's premier REIT event

Cutting-edge insights, leadership perspectives, and game-changing connections you can't find anywhere else.

Why attend?

  • Canada’s only RealREIT Conference devoted exclusively to REITs and REOCs
  • How are REITs navigating the repercussions of high interest rates, inflation and lack of market liquidity?
  • How are REITs going to survive in 2025 and beyond?
  • Industry experts providing the most current updates, key economic drivers and trends and challenges

What you'll learn

Our advisory council helped curate an extensive agenda with pressing topics including:

  • Examining the performance of Canadian REITs over the past 12 months
  • Navigating investment criteria, risk, and trends in the public REIT market
  • Assessing capital flows: trends in equity, debt, public, private, and alternative investments
  • Assessing the resilience of Canadian REIT business models amid uncertainty: Does the current REIT model still work for real estate or is it broken?

Who you'll meet

RealREIT brings together 500+ senior executives from across Canada, including 240+ V-level & C-level executives, 80+ building owners, developers and investors and 160+ attendees from REITs.

Attendees include private and institutional investors, equity analysts, portfolio and investment managers, brokers, lenders, appraisers, lawyers and more.

Canada's most influential real estate professionals

Industry leading speakers at RealREIT 2023 included:

BSR REIT
Boardwalk REIT
Canadian Apartment Properties REIT
Crombie REIT
First Capital REIT
Granite REIT
Plaza Retail REIT
Primaris REIT
RioCan REIT

High-impact networking opportunities

The conference is structured to provide networking opportunities throughout the day.

Stay connected with the ConnectMe app. Maximize your time by connecting with like-minded attendees. Prearrange meetings and use the message function to chat before, during and after the event.

Establish strategic partnerships that last through 2024 and beyond.

Want to sponsor?

The sponsorship program is designed to ensure that sponsors receive maximum corporate exposure to all attendees at the event.

Each sponsorship level will offer a different package of value-added benefits. Tell us your business goals & we will help you achieve them.

Thank you to some of our 2024 sponsors

Click here to see our full list of sponsors.

RealREIT by the numbers

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senior-level attendees

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V-level & C-level executives

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attendees from REITs

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building owners, developers, investors

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expert speakers

insightful sessions

Saurabh Mahajan

Real Estate Strategy, Innovation, & Insights Leader

Deloitte

A great event to network with key industry leaders in Canadian REIT space. It's a fantastic platform to discuss key issues that the industry faces across a variety of themes.

Want to sponsor?

The sponsorship program is designed to ensure that sponsors receive maximum corporate exposure to all attendees at the event. Each sponsorship level will offer a different package of value-added benefits for participating corporations. Tell us your business goals and we will help you achieve them.

Continuing education credits

By attending this conference, you will be eligible to receive professional development and education credits from a number of associations.

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Join the REF Club

Be a part of the community that helps you stay informed and connected. REF Club membership benefits include:

  • On-demand access to all recorded sessions from key Real Estate Forums events through the Streamly platform
  • A 20% discount on forum and conference registrations. Bundle your registration and membership and start saving immediately!
  • Priority for access to waitlisted forums and conferences
  • An automatic $55 discount on continuing education credits when registering for our events

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