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Five Reasons the Time to Build New Apartments is Now
1. Supply is extremely limited. Throughout Canada, vacancy rates are low and average rents are rising. A lot of this is because the supply of apartments has been constrained. Between 1975 and 2000, very little construction of new apartments took place, because rent...
Taking the Mystery out of Mystery Shopping
As a typical apartment owner, you can’t be everywhere at once. You can’t always be fixing the plumbing, handling rent cheques, or, most importantly, giving tours of vacant apartments and keeping your building filled. You have a staff that handles these tasks. But how...
Co-Brokering is about Scaling your Business For the Future
A lot of the green revolution that’s sweeping our industry lately has been about efficiency. How do we heat and power our buildings using less energy? How do we build using more recycled materials? How do we design to use the most floorspace in the smallest footprint?...
Condominiums are Incubating the Next Rental Apartment Boom
In Canada, especially in heated real estate markets like Vancouver and Toronto, pundits are looking at the rush of condominium construction and wondering if this will be bad for the real estate market. Thus far, however, the condominium market has defied expectations...
Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Deal Teams: Leadership, Trust, and Compensation
Canada’s real estate brokerage industry is changing and I believe the days of brokerage teams made up of a single broker working on his or her own, helped by an administrative assistant, and disappearing at the conclusion of a deal, are over. Although this model has...
65 Times Ave, Markham
Type: Apartment City: Markham Price: $16,000,000 Description: Mid Rise Units: 65 “We initially bought the building in 2007 via SVN Rock Advisors Inc., Brokerage, and the team stayed in touch with us. We now closed on the building twice, from both a purchaser...
Introductory Session: The Future of the Canadian Apartment Development Industry – AptCon16
Work on real deals with a great team.Specialise in apartments and student housing, not cold calls.
New Apartment Construction: Our Services to Get You Started
Work on real deals with a great team.Specialise in apartments and student housing, not cold calls.
The Everyday Investor (2016) – Show 6 “Apartment Buildings”
Examining different real estate investment strategies with host Rav Toor. On this episode, guest Derek Lobo talks about investing in apartment buildings. Originally aired: May 9, 2016.