About
Sadiq Alladina is a commercial real estate professional with a background in development, acquisitions, dispositions and asset management.
He has a thorough understanding of real estate at the property, fund and institutional portfolio levels and has participated in core, value-add, and opportunistic mandates. His breadth of experience includes exposure to office, retail, industrial, and residential real estate in primary and secondary markets across Canada.
Sadiq’s past clients include some of the country’s most respected pension funds, private equity firms and other institutional investors. Sadiq began his career at LaSalle Investment Management where he worked as an analyst in acquisitions and asset management and invested in real estate on behalf of a series of closed-end commingled funds and separate accounts. He then became a manager in the development team of a private real estate advisory and management firm that was eventually acquired by Cushman and Wakefield. He later joined Colliers’ newly formed development management service line where he managed residential projects against the backdrop of a changing land-use planning framework in the Province of Ontario. He is currently the founder and principal of Arrowton Realty Advisors, a private real estate corporation that endeavours to bring sound real estate decision-making practices to owners outside the institutional world.
Sadiq’s writing has appeared in Canadian Investment Review, FDI Magazine (Financial Times), The Analyst, Benefits Canada, and Journal of African Business. He currently sits on CFA Society Toronto’s board of directors and is responsible for external relations. As the former Chair of the Industry Relations and Corporate Governance Committee, he led a team of twelve senior industry professionals to provide timely and useful programming to the Society’s over 10,000 members and Toronto’s broader investment community. Sadiq also served as Vice Chair of the Society’s Risk Management and Alternative Investments Committee during which time he and his colleagues addressed the investment community’s growing interest in private market investments (namely real estate, private equity, infrastructure, farmland, and timberland).
Prior to his entry into real estate, Sadiq interned at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria and formulated policy recommendations for governments to effectively promote foreign direct investment into sub-Saharan Africa. He was deeply involved in the Africa Foreign Investor Survey: motivations, operations, perceptions, and future plans, the largest survey of its kind at the time.
Sadiq completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Chartered Property Finance and Investment Surveyor (MRICS).
“The investment process should be rigorous enough to prevent rash decisions, and advisors should always ask how the assumptions imbedded in their valuations for acquisition and disposition are viewed by investors."
- Benefits Canada, June 2014
"Having a plan in place in the event of a significant economic slowdown or a severe systematic shock akin to the 2008 financial crisis should be part of an advisor’s fiduciary duty. While it may be easy to meet return requirements during a period of compressing yields, real estate’s cyclicality requires a strategy for advisors to withstand downturns, minimize losses, and hopefully emerge stronger relative to the competition."
- Canadian Investment Review, September 2015
“Going forward, investment managers won’t be able to rely on cap rate compression to offset operational underperformance or generate total returns well in excess of their hurdle rates. Attention will now fall almost squarely on net operating income, a function of the leasing market and improvements made to the property. The stratification of advisory talent will become more obvious to institutional investors such as pension funds, life insurance companies, trusts and endowments.”
- Canadian Investment Review, May 2021