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10 Real Life #YEG Properties Meet the Zoopraisal™ Value Calculator

November 2, 2011 Real Estate
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There’s been some news recently about the online advertising site Zoocasa releasing a Zillow-like online real estate value calculator for Canadian real estate. To accomplish this, Zoocasa went and bought access to Brookfield’s Centra system. They do a lot of appraisals, primarily in eastern Canada, and I’ve heard they gave Zoocasa access to 4-5 million [...]

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Buying Multi-Family – Sellers’ Market Tips

June 21, 2011 Real Estate
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It’s 2011 and Edmonton’s still a funny market when it comes to multi-family investment inventory. There’s only 58,557 purpose built rental units in Edmonton according to CMHC (page 2, PDF) and that number is shrinking. That’s 58,000 units for just over a million people compared to almost a half million units for Montreal’s 3.6 million. That’s [...]

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Condo Docs: Get ‘em, Read ‘em, Keep Reading ‘em

June 16, 2011 Real Estate
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When you buy a condominium you’re really getting two things when the title gets transferred to you – a piece of real estate and a piece of a business. The guts of what makes a condo different than a free-hold property is the condominium corporation. Because there’s your property is broken in two – your property and the common [...]

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Real Estate Investing 101 – Part 1: Leverage

December 20, 2010 Real Estate
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The most fundamental attributes of Real Estate, beyond the fact that it’s, well, real, is that is can be borrowed against. The action of borrowing money, much like a lever for moving physical things, has the effect of amplifying things. A small push on the right lever can move a large object. This amplification has [...]

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Edmonton Rental Market Report – Dec 2010

December 17, 2010 Property Management

Knowing what a potential revenue property will rent for is the most important and most difficult part of establishing a rental portfolio that has positive cash-flow and creates serious passive income. To help out my clients, readers and all you investors, I’ve teamed up with several investors, Realtors and property managers to come up with some ballpark [...]

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How To Fit 24 Rooms in 344 sq. ft.

December 15, 2010 Real Estate

Hong Kong architect Gary Chang, is the master of the Domestic Transformer. He’s made a terriffic looking small apartment (in a rather ugly HK apartment building) which uses sliding panels and walls to fit 24 combinations into his 344 sq ft apartment. That’s some great design!

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22 Things I Look For In An Investment Property

November 29, 2010 Real Estate
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When I sit down to find my next piece of investment real estate, there’s a long list of things I’ve learned which are like little ornaments on the Christmas tree of revenue property. Some are more important than others, but here’s my list of things that make me happy. Three bedrooms or more. Half-bathrooms I [...]

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