MIAMI—The swimming pool deck of a beachfront South Florida condominium that collapsed two years ago, killing 98 people, failed to comply with the original building codes and standards, with many areas of severe strength deficiency, federal investigators said Thursday. Investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology gave an update on the collapse of…

DENVER—Police in Colorado on Thursday continued to dig out a body encased in concrete that was found in a condo crawl space they believe is of a man killed by a friend and alleged partner in crime during a fight last year. The mounded concrete grave, with apparent human remains visible through its cracks, was…

The gunman in a Toronto-area condo shooting rampage was a “controlling and abusive husband and father” who was estranged from his children, his three daughters say in a statement. Francesco Villi killed five people—three condo board members and their partners—in a shooting at his Vaughan, Ont., highrise Sunday night, police say. Three daughters of the…

TORONTO—A suburban Toronto man who was killed by police after authorities say he fatally shot five people in his condominium building, including three members of the condo board, had a court hearing scheduled for the next day to determine if the building’s management could evict him. Francesco Villi, 73, attacked neighbors on three floors of…

MIAMI BEACH—An evacuation order has abruptly forced out residents of a 14-story oceanfront building on the same avenue where a condominium collapse killed nearly 100 people last year. The city posted an unsafe structure notice Thursday evening at the Port Royale condominium, Miami Beach spokesperson Melissa Berthier said in an email. A structural engineering report…

Condo rents in the Greater Toronto Area have reached a record high as demand exceeded growth in supply for the fifth consecutive quarter, a new report by market research firm Urbanation Inc. finds. Released on July 19, the report found that the average condo rent in the GTA rose 5.9 percent in the second quarter…

Condo rents in the Greater Toronto Area have reached a record high as demand exceeded growth in supply for the fifth consecutive quarter, a new report by market research firm Urbanation Inc. finds. Released on July 19, the report found that the average condo rent in the GTA rose 5.9 percent in the second quarter…

The average property rental price in the Greater Toronto Area in May saw the largest single-month hike in the past three years, as potential homebuyers back away from rising interest rates, reducing rental supply, a recent report says. The report, co-authored by Bullpen Research & Consulting and TorontoRentals.com, shows the average monthly rental rate in the GTA…

MIAMI—Residents of an eight-story condo building in Miami were ordered to evacuate after the building was deemed “unsafe” by city officials. On Monday night, some six weeks after 98 people died in the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in nearby Surfside, residents of the 138-unit building lugged belongings to their vehicles, news outlets reported. They were…

SURFSIDE—Officials in a Florida town released body camera footage Tuesday from the first police officers who responded to the collapse of a condo building that left 98 people dead. Officers in Surfside arrived just minutes after the east side of Champlain Tower South pancaked in the early morning hours of June 24. Each video lasts…