An Ottawa real estate investors club had warned its members to steer clear of a rent-to-own business that’s now facing more than $2 million in lawsuits.
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New St. Albert Business Centre celebrates grand opening
The new St. Albert Business Centre not only has the professional looks needed to attract business to St. Albert. It also connects economic development with local businesses and takes investors right to the core of the city, says Guy Boston, executive director for economic development.
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This Simple Thought Experiment Shows How Investors Are Biased
James Montier’s bible on behavioural finance, ‘Behavioural investing’, points out two recent discoveries by neuroscientists that have relevance to all investors:
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Even as Housing Revives, Apartment Growth Set to Boom
With housing now in recovery and apartment rents rising, there is new concern that tenants and investors alike will move out of the multi-family space.
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As marijuana goes legit, investors rush in
Brendan Kennedy and Michael Blue are nice boys. Really. They’re bankers. Yale MBA classmates. Wearers of ties.
And, if luck and changing laws cooperate, they’ll be drug barons of a certain kind.
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Housing Grows, Investors Still Look to Rentals
If housing is getting better, why would rentals be the place to invest? CNBC’s Diana Olick looks at the demand and whether it is or isn’t permanent.
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Investors Assess Apartments After the Love Is Gone
A strong recovery in single-family homes may spell bad news for apartment companies that reaped big profits over the last few years by renting to displaced homeowners, Fitch Ratings says in a new report.
The ratings agency says that an improving housing market could weigh on rent growth for multifamily real-estate investment trusts. Fitch estimates that 80% of the growth in apartment demand between 2009 and 2011 was derived from declining homeownership.
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Demand for REITs insatiable as investors chase higher returns
The best year on record for Canadian publicly-traded real estate just keeps getting better, driven by an insatiable demand from investors for a decent return.
The capital markets had raised a total of $8.208-billion in announced deals as of Thursday , including $5-billion in equity, according to CIBC World Markets Inc. That total dollar amount smashed through the $6.255-billion raised in 2011 which was a record.
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CRP introduces online economic development tool
Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP) member municipalities have a new tool for attracting site selectors and investors.
Staff at the CRP, made up of 14 member municipalities, including Calgary, Airdrie and Cochrane, has created the GIS Program for Regional Asset Inventory.
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