Avison Young Bill Argeropoulos Great Recession British Columbia Vancouver Ontario $994 per square foot. Statistics Canada

• Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre was Canada's most productive mall with retail sales of $1,610 psf in 2015, displacing Vancouver's Pacific Centre, which topped the list one year earlier;

• The top 10 malls accounted for 10% of the total retail mall rentable area and 12% of the total number of stores in 2015;

• Year-over-year retail sales growth among the top 10 malls ranged between 3% and 20%;

• Pension funds and their real estate arms (e.g. Cadillac Fairview, Oxford Properties, AIMCo, and Ivanhoé Cambridge) own and manage the country's top-performing malls, in some cases as joint ventures;

• Five of the 10 top-performing malls in Canada are in Ontario, and four of the five Ontario centres are located in the Greater Toronto Area;

• The retail property sector achieved the highest total annual return (8.8%) of the major asset types tracked by the REALpac/IPD Canada Property Index in 2015 – outpacing the overall index return of 8%.

Avison Young Bill Argeropoulos Great Recession British Columbia Vancouver Ontario $994 per square foot. Statistics Canada

• Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre was Canada's most productive mall with retail sales of $1,610 psf in 2015, displacing Vancouver's Pacific Centre, which topped the list one year earlier;

• The top 10 malls accounted for 10% of the total retail mall rentable area and 12% of the total number of stores in 2015;

• Year-over-year retail sales growth among the top 10 malls ranged between 3% and 20%;

• Pension funds and their real estate arms (e.g. Cadillac Fairview, Oxford Properties, AIMCo, and Ivanhoé Cambridge) own and manage the country's top-performing malls, in some cases as joint ventures;

• Five of the 10 top-performing malls in Canada are in Ontario, and four of the five Ontario centres are located in the Greater Toronto Area;

• The retail property sector achieved the highest total annual return (8.8%) of the major asset types tracked by the REALpac/IPD Canada Property Index in 2015 – outpacing the overall index return of 8%.