TOP 10 REAL ESTATE ARTICLES
Canada leads the way in a global housing recovery while countries such as Spain, Italy and Ireland continue to flounder.
An exhaustive report that looks at investor perceptions of the global real estate market. Of interest, wealthy investors expect to increase their asset allocation to real estate over the next two years because they believe it offers better long term prospects than other assets classes.
“The West is on fire,” said Adam Waterous, Scotia Capital's Calgary-based head of global investment banking. “It's fantastic news for the country. These are big, big projects that are going to get developed. And there's no question that the West is going to lead the country out of the recession.”
Commodity prices are rising, Canada has a healthy balance sheet, and the International Monetary Fund raises its growth forecast for Canada by half a percentage point.
This experienced investor tells you why he prefers the high reward/low risk nature of this real estate investment category, with long term volatility data and ROI to support his arguments, courtesty of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) in the US.