KW Employment Growth up 7.8% Some encouraging news for real estate investors looking to buy investment property in an area with a strong job market. Kitchener Waterloo is growing while many economies across Canada slow down. Remember Ben’s Rule of Rental Real Estate: Buy rental property in strong job markets, near major employers From Daily [...]
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Top 9 Reasons You Should Invest in KW Real Estate
KW Tops REIN Top 10 List Kitchener Waterloo is Ontario’s top Real Estate Investment Destination, again. Well, it’s that time of year again. Kitchener Waterloo is getting some more much deserved attention from Canadian Real Estate Investors all across the country. KW has been named the top real estate investment destination in Ontario by the [...]
Waterloo Chronicle reports 27.4% Increase in Home Sales
Great little article from this morning’s Waterloo Chronicle, if you missed it, on the price and volume of houses sold in the Kitchener Waterloo MLS area: Area housing sales up - May 20, 2009 There were 632 homes sold in Kitchener and Waterloo through April, a 27.4 per cent increase compared to March 2009.It marked the [...]
3 Things You Should Look For Before Investing in a Condo in Kitchener Waterloo
Over the last few years our clients have been investing in residential condominium apartments priced between $106,000 – $178,000 range, 750 – 1200 square feet, usually 2 bedrooms & 1 bath or 3br / 2 bath units and renting them out to stable, long term tenants for between $850-$1250 a month. There are many condominiums [...]
The Kaufman Lofts in Kitchener Waterloo – an Investor’s Perspective
The historic Kaufman Lofts in downtown Kitchener have been a ‘destination’ building ever since construction on the condo conversion was announced. People tell me “I want a Kaufman Loft!” Even if the loft is a bit smaller or pricier than another condominium they were looking at, the design, location and prestige put the project over [...]
Why I like Investing in Real Estate
I was speaking to a good friend of mine recently, and we were discussing different asset classes you can invest in (like Real Estate, Stocks, Commodities, etc). She hadn’t invested in Real Estate before, and asked me why I liked it, and why I had divested from stocks & mutual funds in favour of investing [...]
