November 24, 2021

Manulife Investment Management announces the launch of VTS Market for 38 of its real estate assets within its US portfolio. VTS Market is the industry’s first integrated, online marketing platform that enables landlords and their teams to market and lease their available spaces remotely for the very first time. It provides clients with a virtual experience of available spaces through videos, 3D walkthroughs, virtual renderings, photos, and floor plans while also integrating with existing workflows and providing powerful analytics. The purpose of the platform is not to replace in-person touring but to shortlist top preferences, resulting in a more efficient user experience for the tenant, broker, and landlord.

Manulife Investment Management partners with industry-leading organizations to continually provide innovative solutions for its clients and employees. “Within one of the most challenging commercial real estate markets, ensuring we’re able to continuously provide for our clients is one of our key priorities,” said Erik Gustafson, head of US real estate asset management at Manulife Investment Management. “Over the past few years, we have worked to optimize our leasing and tour activity, including the introduction of short form leases and 100% virtual touring. The pandemic has simply accelerated the adoption of these practices and further legitimized their value.”

"The past 18 months of the pandemic have required landlords to rethink their operations and management strategies in order to pivot in an unpredictable market. Simply put, no one is doing business the same way they previously were", said Nick Romito, CEO of VTS. "With VTS Market, leading landlords such as Manulife Investment Management have moved away from the offline marketing methods of the past in order to better serve their clients, while more easily capturing demand in a fully-digital, data-driven way, giving them a significant competitive advantage in the market."

In addition to the recent addition of the US portfolio, Manulife Investment Management is currently in the process of onboarding the Canadian office portfolio beginning with the Greater Toronto Area.

Manulife Investment Management develops and manages commercial real estate for thousands of customers around the globe as part of its comprehensive private markets’ capabilities. As of June 30, 2021, the real estate portfolio totals over 62 million square feet of office, industrial, and retail space strategically located in markets across Canada, the U.S., and Asia. The group leverages its global platform and local expertise to provide market-leading solutions for its tenants and deliver results for its partners.

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About VTS

VTS is commercial real estate’s leading leasing, marketing, asset management, and tenant experience platform where the industry comes to make deals happen and real-time data comes to life. The VTS Platform captures the largest first-party data source in the industry, which delivers real-time insights that fuel faster, more informed decision making and connections throughout the deal and asset lifecycle. VTS Data, the industry’s only forward-looking market dataset, and VTS Market and Marketplace, the industry’s first integrated online marketing solution, give landlords, brokers, and tenants unparalleled visibility into real-time market information and the direct connectivity to execute deals with greater speed and intelligence at every point in the planning, marketing, leasing, and asset management cycle. VTS Rise is the industry’s most comprehensive tenant experience solution, offering occupiers, building operators, and visitors an immersive, tech-enabled experience.

More than 60% of Class A office space in the US and 12B square feet of office, retail, and industrial real estate globally is managed on the VTS platform. VTS’ user base includes over 45,000 CRE professionals including respected industry leaders like Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, Boston Properties, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE. To learn more about VTS, and to see our open roles, visit www.vts.com.