“The Agony and the Ecstasy” is a very worthwhile book about the painter and sculptor Michelangelo. Like a beautiful sculpture, say the Statue of David, or a masterful painting, say on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, it takes agony, i.e. huge amount of planning and painful masterful execution over months and years to arrive […]
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Why long term hold makes (more) sense !
As you know, we strongly believe owning, and carefully buying income producing real estate (without overpaying) beats the volatile stock market. While others panic in the wild market corrections we have seen over the last few months (due to Greece, Chinese stock market correction, Iran, interest rate cuts, ..) , we coolly collect rent month […]
Money is on sale: Why interest rates will stay very low for a long LONG time .. and how to use this to your advantage
When you buy and operate income producing real estate, what is the highest expense ? What cost item must we watch the most careful ? Is it property taxes, which we can hardly influence? Or is it utilities which we can influence to a degree through better water and gas efficiencies measures ? Or is […]
Mintzing Words with the OSC
The Ontario Security Commission (OSC) is a powerful agency in Canada. Since we as a real estate firm issue securities for our syndicated residential properties we have to follow security laws, specifically NI 45-106 and NI 31-103 . We do not yet follow OSC’s or the proposed national security regulator’s overreaching rules, as we are […]
Ich bin ein Berliner: The Berlin Wall – 25 Years later
Today is a special memorial day for me: The Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago, Nov. 9 1989. Ich bin ein Berliner. I was born in Berlin, not even two years before the Berlin wall went up in August 1961. Both my parents are from East-Germany and foresaw the lack of opportunity in that […]
Watch Now! How You Can Own Apartment Buildings …Today!
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Cold Lake Oil Sands – The Next Fort McMurray?
The Cold Lake region offers some of the best economics for oil sands development due to high bitumen quality and proximity to markets and infrastructure. Cold Lake’s thermal in-situ projects are the largest in the world and supply about 10% of Canada’s daily oil production. Major employers in the area include Imperial Oil, Husky, CNRL, […]
Edmonton City Center will shine like no other in North America – $2.5 Billion Edmonton Arena Project Fly Though Video Unveiled
Daryl Katz, team owner and co-developer of the Edmonton Arena District (EAD) made a rare appearance before journalists to reveal new details about a $2.5-billion mega-development that will transform four million square feet (including the arena) of downtown parking lots and one-storey building sites into what he calls the largest mixed-use sports and entertainment […]
Painting A Picture With Numbers, The Story Of Alberta
We’ve heard it time and time again, Alberta is a prosperous province with a booming economy, but how do we actually stack up, numbers wise? The Alberta Office of Statistics and Information has the answers: Last year the population in our province jumped by 3.5%, which is triple the national average. Average rent for […]
Why Edmonton’s Growth Is Outpacing Calgary’s
That smaller city to the north — you know, the one with the legislature and that megamall — is now growing at a faster clip than booming Calgary. There are 877,926 Edmontonians, according to the city’s 2014 census released Friday. While that remains a far cry from Calgary’s nearly 1.2 million, the capital’s two-year growth […]