Romanian property management startup Milluu managed to race past its fundraising target in just three hours. The final investment total reached €884,000, €100,000 above the target, in the largest funding round raised so far through the SeedBlink platform.
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ASB has backtracked on a decision that would have made it harder for investors to buy new houses.
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Another house price record has toppled, with Trade Me Property reporting that the national average asking price experienced the largest annual growth on record in January.
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TOKYO — Hong Kong- and Sweden-based equity funds have begun preparing to make investments in Japan, joining the growing ranks of foreign players looking to purchase businesses unloaded by companies squeezed by the pandemic.
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EDMONTON (660 NEWS) – Alberta’s UCP government says it will be enhancing its small business relaunch grant to help more companies affected by the pandemic.
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Premier Jason Kenney has flatly rejected a recommendation by a coalition of Alberta’s most prominent business leaders who have come out in favour of a provincial sales tax.
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Homebuyers and renovators hoping for a mid-winter price slump are instead being greeted with new all-time record high prices for lumber and oriented strandboard (OSB) building panels.
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The Business Council of Alberta is sounding the alarm about the state of the province’s finances, releasing a report Wednesday indicating a concerning trajectory with both an expense and a revenue problem.
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Mortgage borrowing in Canada reached record highs in 2020, with households adding nearly $108 billion in mortgage debt, compared with less than two-thirds of that amount in 2019 and just under $46 billion in 2018, says Statistics Canada in a report released on Wednesday.
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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose in Canada at a faster pace in January (+1.0 per cent) year over year than in December (+0.7 per cent), according to a report released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
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