There’s something so appealing about real estate. You can see it, touch it, it’s real. That’s not to say investing in real estate is simple though. There is no such thing as a guaranteed investment and that goes for real estate too. There are risks whether you purchase land, a Read More
Financing for multi-unit (5+ unit) residential buildings comes in two varieties: CMHC Insured Non-CMHC Insured People with healthy down payments frequently ask why they’d ever want to pay the CMHC premium if they can simply get a conventional mortgage. Let’s take a $500,000 loan at 75% LTV, for example, on Read More
There has been endless focus on Canada’s residential mortgage rebound following the credit crisis. Nowadays, however, commercial lending is where the growth is at. Canada’s commercial mortgage market continues to expand, with more than $30 billion in loan originations in 2013. That’s according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) in a recent report Read More