Apartment buy a Dutch treat for CAPREIT

Apartment buy a Dutch treat for CAPREIT

Although “Canadian” is the key identifier in CAPREIT’s corporate name (Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust), the apartment operator is not shy about looking beyond the borders of its home country. A few years ago it shrewdly identified Ireland as a country poised to enjoy an economic bounce back within the European Union and late last month it expanded to the Netherlands.

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Greybrook has full slate of projects for 2017

Greybrook Realty Partners Inc. has plans for a very active 2017, and it didn’t waste any time with a Wednesday announcement of a $10.9-million investment in a low-rise residential development with Marlin Spring in Oshawa, Ont.

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Intelligence House finds niche in Alberta market

Down times in the Alberta residential market have meant rapid growth for three-year-old real estate research, marketing and sales and leasing agency Intelligence House Ltd. Intelligence House was launched because its founders believed there was no other “one-stop shop” agency specializing in all three of its primary areas of expertise.

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Real Estate Forum marks 25th anniversary

Given that this year marked the 25th anniversary of the Toronto Real Estate Forum, it seemed appropriate that it ended with senior real estate and investment banking executives looking back at the past quarter-century while forecasting what’s to come.

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Getting back into gear in Alberta

The holiday season is usually an opportunity to reflect and rejoice. In recent months, there has been a lot of the former and too little of the latter for many Albertans. But as we look ahead, there are a number of reasons to be optimistic about the economic opportunities for the province in 2017.

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A new year christened by economic contradiction

Prices in Vancouver’s housing market have jumped by 40 per cent this year. The price of a typical single-family home has hit $1.5 million, about 20 times the annual median household income. Common sense dictates this would spark a boom in new housing starts to meet what must be overwhelming demand.

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RENX commercial real estate outlook 2017

At the Global Property Market in Toronto in December Jacques Gordon, Global Strategist, LaSalle Investment Management advised that there will be between five and seven highly disruptive events (eg. Fort McMurray wildfires, Brexit, election of Trump) over the next five years. Black swans aside, the following Property Biz Canada newsletter provides links to stories that provide a commercial real estate outlook for 2017.

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RENX top story picks for 2016

The past year generated more real estate news than any year since RENX started publishing in 2001.  Instead of 5 top stories we selected ten and while we have confined our entire list to 100 stories in the past we let it run on this year.

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Six months ago: NexusCrowd, Downing Street JV on crowdfunding

Crowdfunding startup NexusCrowd Inc. is celebrating its second successful money raise, gathering $500,000 over five weeks for a GTA industrial redevelopment. The raise was part of a $5.8-million equity raise for Toronto-based Downing Street Realty Partners, which has two industrial properties in Toronto and one in Mississauga that require redevelopment and remediation spending.

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One year ago: CT REIT becoming a blue-chip trust

Born after the 2013 “taper tantrum” stock and bond selloff  Canadian Tire’s real estate trust, CT REIT, has proven a model retail property trust – a steady player in a sector known for volatility. “Yes, I think that is probably accurate,” CT REIT’s president and CEO Ken Silver said of its “blue-chip” status.

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