Dream enters U.K. multi-let industrial with $147M acquisition of Chancerygate (opens in a new tab)
Dream Industrial takes Chancerygate's assets and Dream Unlimited takes its management platform, adding UK partnerships.
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Toronto real estate developer and asset manager behind the Dream family of TSX-listed trusts.
Dream, made up of Dream Unlimited Corp. and its asset management arm Dream Asset Management, is a Toronto-based real estate developer and asset manager founded by Michael Cooper in 1996. It manages about $28 billion of assets across three TSX-listed trusts (Dream Office REIT, Dream Industrial REIT and Dream Impact Trust), its private asset management business and partnerships. It also develops land and housing in master-planned communities in Western Canada and owns income properties across Canada. For students, Dream runs internships and a two-year rotational '360 Analyst' program, and it has offices across Ontario, Québec, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Manages TSX-listed Dream Office REIT, Dream Industrial REIT and Dream Impact Trust, plus private funds and institutional partnerships, including the CPP Investments industrial joint venture.
Develops land and housing in Western Canadian master-planned communities and Toronto mixed-use projects (e.g. Quayside), and owns a national portfolio of apartment, retail and commercial assets.
Launched in 2021 to give private clients access to Dream's real estate investment platform.
Dream Residential REIT (US Sunbelt and Midwest multifamily, 2022), a Dutch rental portfolio bought in 2024, and a UK multi-let industrial platform added through the 2026 Chancerygate deal.
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| Markham | ON | office |
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Founder and Chief Responsible Officer
Dream Unlimited Corp.
Founded Dream Asset Management in 1996 and leads Dream as Chief Responsible Officer; also Chair and CEO of Dream Office REIT and portfolio manager of Dream Impact Trust. Has worked in Canadian real estate since 1986 and grew the platform to about $28 billion of assets under management.
Co-President, Asset Management; President and CEO, Dream Industrial REIT
Dream Unlimited Corp. / Dream Industrial REIT
Co-leads Dream's asset management business and runs Dream Industrial REIT as President and CEO, after serving as its President and COO and as COO of Dream Global REIT. Joined Dream in 2008 from American Appraisal in Moscow.
Co-President, Asset Management and President, Development & Income Properties
Dream Unlimited Corp.
Leads Dream's development pipeline and national apartment, retail and commercial portfolio, and co-leads Dream Asset Management's growth, new strategies and capital partnerships; member of the Executive Management Team. Joined Dream in 2014. CFA charterholder; BCom from Queen's.
Vice Chair, Development
Dream Unlimited Corp.
Has been with Dream and related entities since 1996, working on residential and mixed-use development including the 2015 Pan Am Games Athletes' Village, and on land and housing, retail and Western Canadian multi-family. Was EVP at Residential Equities REIT before rejoining Dream in 2004.
Chief Financial Officer
Dream Unlimited Corp.
Runs Dream's financial management, including reporting, development accounting, investor relations and tax, and oversees the shared-services platform. Joined in 2014 and has served as acting CFO, Chief Accounting Officer and CFO of Dream Impact. Began in audit at PwC; CPA, BCom from Carleton.
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Jul 31, 2026
Chancerygate (UK multi-let industrial developer and asset manager)
Acquirer · Industrial real estate
Buyer Dream Unlimited Corp. and Dream Industrial REIT
Dream Industrial is buying Chancerygate's owned assets and co-investment interests, and Dream Unlimited takes over its investment management and development platform, which brings existing UK partnerships with over $2 billion of assets. RENX reported the deal would push Dream's global AUM past $30 billion.
Feb 25, 2026
Quayside Phase 1 multifamily rental component, Toronto waterfront
Acquirer (partnership reorganization) · Residential development
Buyer Dream Impact Trust (25%) and Dream Impact Fund (75%) · Seller Great Gulf (swapped its rental interest for full ownership of the condo component)
Dream and Great Gulf restructured the Quayside partnership: Dream entities now own all of the Phase 1 rental component (about 1,100 market units plus about 550 affordable units planned), and Great Gulf owns the condos.
Dec 17, 2025
Canadian industrial joint venture (seeded with 12 Dream Industrial properties, about 3.6M sq ft, $805M)
Co-investor and manager · Industrial real estate
Buyer CPP Investments (90%) and Dream Industrial REIT, with Dream Asset Management
Value-add industrial venture with $1.1 billion of equity (about $1 billion from CPP Investments and about $100 million from Dream Industrial), targeting about $3 billion of Canadian industrial assets including leverage.
Dream Industrial takes Chancerygate's assets and Dream Unlimited takes its management platform, adding UK partnerships.
Dream entities took full ownership of the Phase 1 rental component and Great Gulf took the condos.
CPP Investments takes 90% of a value-add Canadian industrial venture seeded with Dream Industrial properties.
Bought a 2,947-unit portfolio from European Residential REIT with TPG Angelo Gordon and Stadium Capital.
Sold for $6.2 billion.
Created through the spin-off of 50% of Dundee Realty Corporation.
Founded by Michael Cooper.
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