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Year - 2005

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News Release - 2005

Earned Media 2005

•  "Marketing Energy Efficiency, Link between value and green features", [Green Value Report] in Novae Res Urbis, Greater Toronto Area Edition, Vol.8, No.50 (December 21, 2005)

• "The Green Bottom Line:  People, Planet, and Profit", [Green Value Report] by Peter Pike, PikeNet Dispatch (December 13, 2005), http://www.ppike.com/dispatch/dispatch05/dispatch0901.html

• "REALpac Releases Study on Property Taxes", by Maurice Gatien, Market Matters, Your Window on Canadian Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate in the News (December 9, 2005), www.marketmatters.com

• "Business tax 3rd highest in country, group says Toronto, Vancouver top list, report says", by Zev Singer, The Ottawa Citizen (December 6, 2005)

• Email from Ontario JOBS Coalition to its Members, Re:  REALpac's 2005 Property Assessment/Tax Analysis of 2004 Data", by Vince Brescia (December 5, 2005)

• "Business tax load heaviest in Toronto, City's commercial property is assessed at five times the rate of residential", by Elizabeth Church, Globe and Mail, Page B4 (December 5, 2005)

• "REITs survived close call on distribution tax:  Sector hopes for different tax applied to business trusts" by Garry Marr, National Post, Financial Post:  Property Post, p.FP10 (December 1, 2005)

• REITtalk audio interview with S. Michael Brooks, Executive Director, RealPac, with Anatole Pevnev, Editor, REITcafe.  Listen to the interview at http://www.REITcafe.com/REITtalk/REITtalk_05016.mp3 (December 2005)

• "The Future of Real Estate", by S. Michael Brooks, in Real Estate Forum Magazine, p.46 (November/December 2005)

• "RealPac Applauds Minister Goodale's Decision on Income Trusts", RENX, http://www.renx.ca, (November 29, 2005)

• "The REIT Review, Weekly Edition", re:  Federal income trust consultation process, by Canaccord Capital (November 25, 2005)

• "Hotel REITs - Back on Solid Ground", by S. Michael Brooks, in Planing for Profits Magazine, pp. 28-29 (Fall 2005)

• "Will business trusts redefine part or all of their busines to become REITs?", by Ann White, RENX, http://www.renx.ca/Detailed/707.html (November 16, 2005)     

• "Green buildings branded wave of future, Eco-friendly projects boost business profits”, by Laura Severs, in Business Edge, Vol. 5, No. 39 (November 10, 2005)  

• "The REIT Influence, The economic impact of establishing a listed real estate industry", by Courtney Darby in NAREIT Real Estate Portfolio Magazine Special Issue, “REITS around the globe”, (November/December 2005), http://www.realestateportfolio.com/portfoliomag/05special/p28.shtml

• "A Green Building 96% Leased Before Completion, Rents 66% Above The Local Market", by Ann White, RENX, http://www.renx.ca/, (November 4, 2005)

• "New Name, Consistent voice for the real property industry", in Industry Briefs, Canadian Property Management Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 5, September 2005 (Issued October 2005)

• "Green Buildings, Good for Business".  "A new Canadian study of green buildings reveals a clear link between the market value of real estate and its environmental friendliness. The study, Green Value, was co-sponsored by the Real Property Association of Canada in conjunction with nine government and private sector organisations in Canada and the United Kingdom", Real Estate News Exchange (October 31, 2005)

• "'Green' buildings pay off nicely, new study finds", by Charles Mandel, Winnipeg Free Press, Business, Page B13 (October 29, 2005)

• "Green buildings reap financial rewards", by Charles Mandel, CanWest News Service (October 29, 2005)

• "Caisse goes east for growth: Shopping centre arm has invested almost $1B in malls in Poland and eastern Germany", by Duncan Mavin, in the National Post, Financial Post, Page FP3 (October 24, 2005)

• "New deal talks at critical stage", by Ian Urquhart, in the Toronto Star (October 3, 2005)
• "RealPac's submission to the Senate Banking Committee on the taxation of income trusts/REITs", by Karine McIndoe, BMO Nesbitt Burns Equity Research (September 30, 2005)
• "Carving out REITs from the Income Trust Sector", by Ann White, Real Estate News Exchange (September 28, 2005)
• "REITs told to distance selves from trust storm", by Elizabeth Church, in Glober and Mail, B11 (September 28, 2005)
• "A new era for income trusts", by Marianne Godwin and Margaret Istona, in Globe and Mail Partnership Marketing Supplement with Income Trust IR (September 28, 2005)

• “REITs embark on Prairie feeding frenzy, Sector produces dynamic returns for investors” By Jeannie Armstrong - Business Edge, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 15, 2005)

• "Parking costs driving business to suburbs", by Terrence Belford, in Globe and Mail, B11 (September 13, 2005)
• "Canadian Institute of Public and Private Real Estate Companies has changed its name...", Ontario Planning Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4, p.16 (July/August 2005)
• "Will it be tinkering or major surgery?", by Royson James, in the Toronto Star (June 27, 2005)
• "City gets set for increased powers", by Jennifer Lewington, in Globe and Mail, A8 (June 27, 2005) 
• "Utelcos to be treated like dominant carriers; result in greater competition (June 22, 2005)  
• "Income trust protection in new insolvency legislation", by Elizabeth Church, in Globe and Mail (June 7, 2005)
• "Bill would give trusts insolvency and CCAA protection", by Elizabeth Church, in Globe and Mail (June 7, 2005)
• "S&P lays out blueprint to puts trusts on the TSX", by Elizabeth Church, in Globe and Mail (May 19, 2005)
• "S&P plans to put trusts on the TSX", by Elizabeth Church, in Globe and Mail (May 18, 2005)
• "B.C. seeks to boost confidence in income trusts", by Christopher Donville, Bloomberg, in Vancouver Sun, D5 (April 12, 2005)
• "British Columbia Drafts Law to Limit Income Trust Liability" by Christopher Donville, Bloomberg (April 11, 2005)
• "The Canadian Institute of Public and Private Real Estate Companies (RealPac) has changed its name", in Real Estate Weekly Newsletter, KPMG Canada (April 4, 2005)
• "Was it one P or two Ps? The Canadian Institute of Public and Private Real Estate Companies, or RealPac as it was previously known, says it's changing its name, and one of the reasons is media confusion over the number of Ps in its acronym" by Garry Marr, in National Post, Financial Post section, Property Post page, p. FP11 (March 31, 2005)
• "Canadian industry advocate changes name", by Elizabeth Church, in The Globe and Mail, p. B13 (March 29, 2005)
• "Income Trusts. Well Rooted and Growing", by Randall Anthony Mang, in The Globe and Mail, A Special Information Supplement on Income Trusts, p. 1 (March 28, 2005)
• "REITs on Solid Ground", by Stephen Derek and John Arden, in in The Globe and Mail, A Special Information Supplement on Income Trusts, p. 4 (March 28, 2005)
• "Real estate heaven is no mistake", by Terrence Belford, Special to The Globe and Mail, p. B9, March 22, 2005)
• "Income Trust Weekly, CIBC World Markets Equity Research Industry Update" (March 11, 2005)
• "O&Y Properties, O&Y Real Estate Seek Buyout Offer", by Daniel Taub and Joe Schneider, in Bloomberg (February 15, 2005)
• "Business groups say taxes too high in downtown area, Companies forced to move elsewhere, Miller defends plan to raise rates" by Paul Moloney, in Toronto Star (February 8, 2005)
• "This lobbyist knows how to play tough with the big boys", Eric Reguly, Globe and Mail (January 27, 2004)
• "Income trusts make the TSX big league, Burgeoning sector worth $118-billion to be included in the S&P/TSX benchmark", Elizabeth Church, Globe and Mail (January 27, 2005)
• "Canadians Revise FFO Definition", NAREIT NewsBrief (January 2005)

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