The man who ran our nation’s finances for eight years is gone. In Jim Flaherty’s wake are a legacy of housing policies that will impact homeowners for years to come.
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Calgary real estate: What’s behind the post-flood financing drought
Seven months after Alberta’s devastating floods, home buyers and sellers are finding themselves flailing in uncharted waters as financing dries up.
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City OK’s study of S.E. LRT financing options
Council approved Ald. Shane Keating’s proposal for a “workshop” to consider a special finance scheme to build a southeast LRT line, but the debate around his long-shot idea helped harden divisions about how council takes its next steps on expanding the transit system.
Keating’s pitch came about an hour after council gave final OK to RouteAhead, a 30-year transit plan that puts the southeast line and a connected extension up Centre Street or Edmonton Trail on roughly equal footing on the priority list.
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Master the 30-second pitch to pique investor interest
As president and founder of Montreal’s International Startup Festival, Philippe Telio wanted to move away from the traditional investor pitch of entrepreneurs tossing their ideas at a panel of cross-legged venture capitalists and marketers. It was too formal, he decided. And besides, many of the companies selected by those judges confounded Mr. Telio. So he decided to mix it up — significantly.
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Buying a rental property? How the financing game has changed
Just four short years ago, you could buy an investment property with nothing down and get the best interest rates in the market.
That was then. Today, rental financing is night-and-day different. To mortgage a small (a one-to-four unit, non-owner occupied) rental property now, you need to plop down one-fifth of the purchase price. And even then, you don’t always get the lowest rate.
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