How to be Prudent in Today’s Apartment Industry

How to be Prudent in Today’s Apartment Industry

These are good days to be invested in the purpose-built rental apartment industry. Vacancy rates are low, average rents are rising, and new apartments are riding the perfect storm of limited supply and increasing demand. Cap rates have compressed to record lows, and...
Co-Brokering is about Scaling your Business For the Future

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

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...
Learning self-storage helps me better understand apartments

Learning self-storage helps me better understand apartments

It’s good to find the right niche when it comes to brokering real estate. For years, I’ve focused on the purpose-built rental apartment industry, which many brokers overlook. I’ve learned the unique opportunities of this sector, and the challenges of building...

Sperry Van Ness, Rock shake up CRE market

Rock Advisors Inc. CEO Derek Lobo is excited about linking up with Sperry Van Ness International Corp., one of the biggest commercial real estate brokerage franchisors in the U.S., and in the process altering “a cosy market in Canada.” Sperry Van Ness“SVN is a company...