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Cranson Capital’s Toronto condo REIT
Cranson Capital’s Toronto condo REIT
The Toronto apartment rental market is hot but with little new product, existing building stock expensive and often locked up by long-term investors, it’s a tough play to get into. Cranson Capital believes it has hit on a winning way for investors to benefit from the rental market by buying newly built condos at a discount from condo developers.
RioCan wants to be a big city REIT: Sonshine
Earlier this month, RioCan teamed up with Tricon Capital Group and Diamond Corp. to acquire retail outlets and a block of land in midtown Toronto near the Summerhill subway station for $85 million from Woodcliffe Landmark Properties.
Jennifer Nevitt on how to maximize apartment rents
Maximizing yield from apartment buildings is important, and a successful lease-up for new ones is the key to early and ongoing prosperity for owners.
‘We’re an asset appreciation group,” said Forty2 National Apartment Property Management chief executive officer Jennifer Nevitt, a 33-year veteran of the real estate business based in Philadelphia.
Toronto’s Templar Hotel is on the auction block
Bidding opened at one dollar for The Templar Hotel, a luxury boutique property in downtown Toronto, this week. “The previous vendor spent a lot of money and went bankrupt,” said Core Consultants Realty Inc. managing director Shawn Abramovitz, who listed the eight-storey, 27-suite hotel.
Fibre optic should be factor in choosing offices
As the Internet becomes a more crucial part of many business activities, the importance of fibre optic connectivity to deliver peak performance should be taken into greater consideration when companies choose office space.
What’s behind the commercial condo boom in Vancouver
The prevalence and popularity of owning your own business space has been in the news lately. That’s because growth of commercial condos is trending in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary.
Segmenting boomers: The pyramid of boomerdom
The segmentation model for Boomers summarized in this post was given to me in rough form by my friend Iain Meredith, who spent many years at Altus Group studying consumer behavior and trends in the housing market for various real estate clients.
One year ago: Slate REIT’s ‘non-trophy’ strategy a winner
The company names have changed over the years but the philosophy behind Slate Office REIT’s (SOT.UN-T) latest acquisition is the same as the one that guided Slate founders Brady and Blair Welch when they handled acquisitions for the Blackstone Group: find undervalued office gems while rivals are focused on trophy assets.
Six months ago: NexusCrowd, Downing Street JV on crowdfunding
Crowdfunding startup NexusCrowd Inc. is celebrating its second successful money raise, gathering up $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.
| City of Edmonton Feature Properties Jasper Avenue in The Quarters Downtown |
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The City of Edmonton is offering a prominent high density development site comprising 12,391.8 square feet of developable land near Jasper Avenue and 95 Street in The Quarters Downtown. Open for offers until 4pm, June 30, 2016. Description of the offering – google map)
Detailed information is available at: edmonton.ca/propertysales
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| Property Biz Canada, June 24, 2016 |
| RioCan REIT repositioning its Canadian portfolio Property Biz Canada, June 24, 2016 |
| Derek Lobo dissects the Canadian apartment market Property Biz Canada, June 24, 2016 |
| Apple Self Storage: A family affair Property Biz Canada, June 24, 2016 |
| Canada can learn from U.S. student housing experience Property Biz Canada, June 24, 2016 |
| Calgary retail vacancy one of lowest in N.A. Property Biz Canada, June 24, 2016 |
| One year ago: Apartment intensification an uphill battle Property Biz Canada, June 24, 2016 |
| Six months ago: Top Canadian pension funds major RE players Property Biz Canada, June 24, 2016 |
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