Demand for strata office space outstrips supply in Vancouver

If you worked at a big company in Vancouver about 80 years ago, chances are the owners of the business owned the building, too.
In the decades that followed, institutional investors such as real estate investment trusts, corporate landlords and other investors took a major grip on big city North American office space.
“You saw institutional investors say, ‘why can’t we own the real estate and lease it to IBM or Nabisco or GM or whatever,’” said Ross Moore, a broker