Kilam Apartment REIT, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is one of Canada's largest residential real estate investment trusts, owning, operating, managing and developing a 5.5 billion dollars portfolio of apartments and manufactured home communities. Kilam's long-term strategy to enhance value and profitability focuses on three priorities: 1) increasing earnings from existing operations, 2) expanding the portfolio and diversifying geographically through accretive acquisitions which target newer properties and through the disposition of non-core assets, and 3) developing high-quality properties in its core markets. Killam Apartment REIT was incorporated in 2000 in Ontario, Canada.