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Edmonton Rental Market Survey – June/July 2011

July 26, 2011 Property Management
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Things have started moving a little more quickly in the Edmonton rental market this spring. Incentives have almost totally disappeared, and many Property Mangers and investors have said they’re starting to test the waters, moving rents up by $50-200/unit. Vacancy is down more, slightly below 4% according to Colliers, and things are (usually) renting quickly. [...]

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Evicting Tenants in Alberta

February 14, 2011 Property Management

First, thanks to Chris for allowing me a guest post. I am a fellow Real Estate investor and spent seven years with REIN, so I really appreciate many of his insights in his posts. This particular post is actually in regards to a post by Brian Persaud quite a few months ago in regards to [...]

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Edmonton Real Estate Board 2011 House Price Forecast – Part 2

January 12, 2011 Economic Fundamentals
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[Ed Note: If you've surfed here looking for the price of your own home, you can signup for a free market evaluation on my main site.] And we’re back from the break! This time it’s Patrick Shaver from UDI. When will people learn to stop using bad pictures on their powerpoint slides. This is mostly residential housing [...]

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Edmonton Real Estate Board 2011 House Price Forecast – Part 1

January 12, 2011 Economic Fundamentals
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I’m blogging this morning from the EREB 2011 Housing market forecast at the Shaw Conference Center. It took me a bit to get here, and Lord only knows where I’m parked, but I’m here. The schedule of events for today: Welcome and Opening – Ron Hutchinson, EVP, REALTORS® Association of Edmonton Edmonton’s Strength – Garth [...]

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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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RE/MAX 2011 Housing Outlook

December 8, 2010 Statistics
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The RE/MAX 2011 Housing Outlook is just out, and there’s some interesting ideas in there. Not everyone agrees (including the Edmonton Real Estate Board, whose 2011 Forecast comes out next month, watch for the live blog). Rather than just write a bunch of blog posts, I’m creating a resources section. There’s already a page there [...]

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How To Pick A Edmonton Real Estate Brokerage

November 8, 2010 Realtor
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I’m starting my hunt for the right brokerage for me to work with. Picking a real estate brokerage is even more complex than picking a realtor when you’re going out to buy a property because I’ll likely be tied to them for at least a year or two. Some brokerages take as much as half [...]

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