by web-admin | Feb 2, 2022 | commercial, real estate
Private buyers and financial firms are motivated to buy because borrowing costs are very low and rents are expected to increase sharply in the next five to 10 years. The number and dollar value of residential apartment buildings sold in B.C. during the first half of...
by admin | Oct 12, 2020 | commercial
Winnipeg’s economy emerged from the 2008-’09 recession in very good shape, and it looks poised to repeat that success following the COVID-19 crisis. “As markets like Alberta have struggled with the oil markets being what they’ve been over the past number of years,...
by admin | Oct 11, 2020 | commercial
1. How we work While two-thirds of employees who work from home now expect it to continue after the pandemic, watch out. Your employer has other ideas, according to pollster Angus Reid. That’s bound to increase conflict as work flexibility becomes a core issue. And it...
by admin | Oct 8, 2020 | commercial
If any readers are friendly with commercial real estate junkies, they’ll already have heard an earful about how industrial and multi-family properties are where the smart money is being spent by CRE investors. But with unemployment still over 10 percent in August, and...
by admin | Sep 27, 2020 | commercial
Only a fraction of employees who began working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic have returned to full-time office work, and that has ramifications for everything from how workplaces are run to where we live — and whether the small businesses that surround office...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | commercial, Prince George, real estate
The capitalization rate (or “cap” rate) is one of the primary measuring tools of any office building investment. It is a short form method of deriving the rate of return based on the purchase price and allows you to compare many properties simultaneously to select the...