Wendy Waters

Vice President, Research Services & Strategy at GWL Realty Advisors

Speaker

Wendy Waters has over 20 years of experience in real estate research, 18 with GWL Realty Advisors. At GWLRA she leads Research Services & Strategy team, which provides strategic analysis on office, industrial, retail and multi-residential portfolio strategy. The research team focuses on the economic, demographic and social drivers of real estate performance as well as capital flow and market trends that shape returns.

A key responsibility is providing proprietary research and analysis to support the development of new rental buildings (GWLRA has recently completed over 2000 units in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver with another 6000 units in the development pipeline across Canada). The team also provides research support for asset strategies on GWLRA’s 12,000 units of multi-residential under management across Canada.

Wendy regularly publishes research on LinkedIn, at gwlra.com/research and shares insights on panels across Canada. She is active with the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Co-Chairs RealPac’s Research Committee, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Urban Development Institute of British Columbia (UDI).