edmonton investment real estate: How to keep investment real estate profitable in any economy. - 11/09/09 03:15 AM
Wherever your real estate investment is located—provided you bought it at the right price and terms—there are many ways to keep your property profitable. If you analyze your real estate, update and improve your investment team, review your long- and short-term investment plans and stay focused on the end result; your (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: So It's Not Just An Edmonton Thing - 04/18/08 12:25 AM
Sales are falling across Canada while listings are surging in western Canada. Could it be the record cold winter where people just weren't interested in checking what was on the market? I think in Edmonton it's a lot of investors testing the water to see what the property they bought last (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Alberta Closed For Renovations - 03/31/08 06:40 PM
As you’ve probably already heard, the Alberta provincial government announced last Wednesday that the province would be shutting down its borders for the next 18 months beginning April 2nd 2008. The announcement was made after repeated complaints by citizens that the economy was growing too fast, salaries increasing too rapidly (along with (4 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Hot New Deal - 03/24/08 07:59 PM
Your estimated return is 23%+ annuallyTurbo charge your portfolio. Stylish 1/2 Duplex: 3 bdrm, 1.5 baths, plus garage in Millwoods SE Edmonton. Wonderful area, with nearby access to Ring Road and oil projects. Poised for massive growth. This 2003 built 1270 sq ft home rents for top dollar and has everything arranged, (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Last of the Wild and Free Alberta Assumables ? - 03/07/08 08:44 PM
In Alberta we've been blessed for a longtime time with being able to assume properties without qualifying for the mortgage.For the past two years I've seen banks gradually tighten up their lending policies and require buyers to qualify for some assumable mortgages. In essence where we take over the existing mortgage, (4 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Alberta's Economy - The Envy Of Canada - 01/19/08 02:57 AM
RBC's latest provincial forecasts: "Alberta leads all provinces with above-average economic growth, followed by Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. On the opposite end of the scale, and showing a complete turnabout with its mega-projects now in maturation, Newfoundland and Labrador is posting the slowest economic growth rate of 0.5 per cent, and (6 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Mini Market Report - 12/11/07 05:50 PM
"Taking the Alberta side as an example, there was a 3.8 per cent decrease in unit sales in Oct. 2007 from Oct. 2006. However, new listings were up 39 per cent, indicating an increase in supply.“We’ve had an under-supply for quite a long time so it’s not altogether a bad thing (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Alberta Housing Affordability - 11/22/07 06:14 PM
It's not B.C but it's almost Toronto. Alberta's affordability has suffered in the last year due to incredible housing price increases. Although we haven't become one of Canada's worst areas we moved up the ranks. The thing is affordability declined across most of the country. Alberta isn`t doing terribly but we (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Edmonton Market Report - 11/15/07 08:36 PM
Edmonton's market is still is a plateau which means if you are a buyer you can get some incredible deals. Financing , down payment and terms are all open for negotiation. Especially if you are adept at trawling older listings many people want to sell now. "Price increases in both Calgary (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: This And That - 11/10/07 02:42 AM
Alberta premier wants provincial trade barriers dropped -"Premier Ed Stelmach says Alberta is feeling the economic pinch from the soaring dollar, so it's time for the premiers to start talking about eliminating trade barriers between provinces..." " Stelmach says that eliminating this barriers would Stelmach says eliminating such barriers would increase (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: New To Edmonton And Not Sure Where To Eat - 11/10/07 02:08 AM
If you are just moving into Edmonton or to a new neighborhood in the city it can be hard finding the good restaurants. When we moved into this house the first night we ate out at a dingy looking place down the street. When the proprietor finally came out with our (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Here Comes The 1% Vacancy Rate - 11/06/07 11:18 PM
According to the CMHC Edmonton's apartment vacancy rate is at 1% with a forecast 0.8% next year. We hold a lot of mid to upper end units and we see a higher vacancy rate. Our units priced from $1600 (half duplexes or townhouses) to $2000 (3 to 5 bedroom houses) are (6 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Edmonton And Calgary Great Investments - 11/06/07 10:55 PM
Wondering how your area of the country is doing as far as real estate value and investment goes? The leading real estate analysts at PricewaterhouseCooper have released their annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2008 report. Here is how Calgary and Edmonton fare: Canadian Markets to Watch"The report comments on how (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: This And That - 11/03/07 03:22 AM
Alberta premier urges oil sands firms to negotiate - "I'm sure, at the end of the day, those companies will realize it is in the best interests of their shareholders ... to sit down with the government and look at the two agreements and discuss how we can reach a solution," (0 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Skeletons In My Closet - 10/30/07 09:14 PM
What ‘skeletons’ do you have hidden away that may come out to haunt you? Sounds scary doesn’t it? And it could very well be….I was recently negotiating on a fairly large character conversion/reno project for an associate of mine. He had considerable experience with rezoning and land utilization but not so (2 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Haunted Alberta - Spooky Real Estate - 10/30/07 07:31 PM
Alberta Haunted Real Estate Who could resist? I should write about ROI's or the two great new properties we have picked up recently but all work and no play makes people axe murders! With help from two great sites, The Shadowlands and Zuko - Weird And Spooky Places, I was able (2 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Call Of The West - 10/28/07 08:23 PM
"The booming Alberta economy has maxed out the labour pool here," "It means employers here have to go somewhere else and with the manufacturing industry in Ontario facing massive layoffs there is an opportunity there." Ray Edwardson Organizer of the Workwest Career CaravanAlberta's labour shortage has over 30 companies including Greyhound, (4 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Slow and Steady - 10/19/07 05:14 PM
For many Canadian cities 2007 was incredible year of real estate price gains. Real Estate markets cooled with the weather and the four biggest Canadian markets have slowed since August. Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton all saw big increases over the last year and thanks to the slight cooling in these cities, (2 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: Do You Know The Alberta Advantage? - 10/11/07 07:47 AM
A marketing term, "branding" if you will, of a province by the genius that is Ralph Klein. The Alberta Advantage was used to promote, well, Alberta's advantages to the world. From giving Alberta shaped cheques (can't find proof of this but I heard it on a podcast -urban legend?? folklore??) to (2 comments)
edmonton investment real estate: It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's LRT - maybe - 10/08/07 08:58 PM
Albertan are interested in Light Rail Transit and most, nearly 75%, say they would use it - in a recent poll done by The Calgary Herald."A new poll done exclusively for the Herald shows 70 per cent of Albertans would ride high-speed rail if it were to become a reasonably priced (4 comments)
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