Edmonton Real Estate Investor: 2040 edmonton city vision

If you have some free time this weekend you could read the 160 pages of the 2015 Growth monitoring report and Edmonton Growth study released this week.

In short Edmonton is an economic leader and is growing city with a young demographic. Over the next 50 years the city is expected to double in population.

"Alberta continues to lead the country in economic growth. Its economy has grown on average by over 4% per year over the last three years and is forecast to grow by 3% per year over the next three years. The Edmonton-Calgary corridor demonstrates this economic activity having generated 60% of Canada’s overall job growth for the year ending July 2014. The Edmonton Region plays an important role in the Alberta economy, given its proximity to the world’s third-largest oil reserve. Edmonton has been leading or among the leading Canadian cities in terms of GDP growth over the past three years with that trend expected to continue for another five years.

Strong economic fundamentals in Edmonton have created the need to accommodate
growth. Edmonton’s population grew by roughly 60,000 from 2012 to 2014, an increase of 7.4%. Much of that increase is mainly due to young adults migrating into the city. Housing starts have been pacing the population averaging 10,000 new housing over the last two years. The growth pressures to accommodate the added population have been strongest within south Edmonton. For example, 45% of the added population over the last two years occurred within the two southern most Wards. Demand for industrial land has been just as strong. The average annual absorption rate for the past three years –206 net hectares –is in the order of 85% higher than the previous eight year average. These growth demands are applying pressure on Edmonton’s supply of land for future residential and industrial development." City of Edmonton Growth Study

• The City of Edmonton continues to grow “up,” “in“ and “out.” The current findings confirm the complexity of maintaining growth balance between core, mature and established neighbourhoods and developing or “new” neighbourhoods.

• A demographic shift is occurring in mature and established areas of the city. The population is ageing and households are decreasing in size. There will be a significant increase in lone person and two person households.

• The 2014 Edmonton Municipal census counted 877, 926 people, 60,428 more residents from 2012.

• The Edmonton CMA is comparatively much younger than major Canadian city regions with a median age of 36 years 2015 Growth Monitoring Report

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October 15th., 2014
Volume 17, Issue 6

Dear Friends and Partners,

Lot’s of big announcements these past few weeks. The city centre is growing fast with more and more new buildings coming on. Even if half come to fruition, the city scene will be positively changed forever.

On the energy front there have been some significant developments in transportation and the European energy bill, both of which you can read below. Stay informed, get active and don’t miss the opportunity Edmonton is offering.

BTW - REIN is hosting its ACRE event in Edmonton October 25th. If you are just starting DIY real estate investing, you won’t want to miss this. Find more info about it HERE.

Central Edmonton: Inglewood 4-Unit Cashflow (Purchase Plus Improvement Deal)

Turbo charge your portfolio. This 1950 built Raised-Bungalow-Style 4-Plex is located in the heart of Inglewood, minutes from trendy 124th and downtown. The airport revitalization project is sending ripples of improvement throughout this area. Easy access to the Yellowhead as well as many parks and schools to enjoy in this character -rich neighbourhood.

This property has front entrances to the 2 X 2BD main floor units and lower entrances for the 2X 1BD suites.

This property was built as a RF3 duplex and is noted as having lower-level suites in the tax assessment. This is a purchase plus improvement deal, meaning that we wrap the ($25K) renovations into a new mortgage.

Ensuite laundry to be added. Property has 1 x double detached garage . Excellent access to downtown, transit and St. Albert.

Comes complete with great tenants making this a totally turn-key property for you. Inglewood is a great mature area that is a desirable for tenants working in the city or attending NAIT.

HUGE upside potential due to the quality of the building, great purchase price, strong economic fundamentals and the proximity of this property in relation to Edmonton's desirable growing core. Purchase price factors in renovations.

Purchase price: $664,000K
Total Investment: $152,930K
Your Estimated 5 Year Profit: $86,096.28K
Your pre-tax Total ROI is 56% or 11% per year

These 4 suites rent for top dollar and have everything arranged, including financing structure and incredible tenants. Your investment includes: impeccable tenant selection, financial analysis, professional inspection, insurance, financing set-up, legal fees, basic accounting, reserve fund, CMA, bi-annual statements, strategic market planning to ensure successful entry and exit, plus much more!

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Hicks: There is no transportation crisis for Alberta

By Graham Hicks, Edmonton Sun, September 26th., 2014

If there's a looming transportation crisis for Alberta oil, why have Suncor and its partners committed $10 billion to the new Fort Hills oilsands project?
Why is Exxon-Imperial Oil full speed ahead on its $8.9 billion expansion of Kearl Lake, even as Phase I is just getting up to speed?

Let's not be stupid. Nobody puts that kind of money into any business, without 100% certainty the product will get to market.

Yet we keep hearing, time after time, that without new pipelines west (Northern Gateway) and south (Keystone XL), much of Alberta's oil will be trapped with no way out.

Here's the reality, as explained to me by a few veterans of the oil transport business. FOLLOW THIS ARTICLE

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Oilsands victory in Europe - but how will they get it there?

By Daniel Schwartz, CBC News, October 9th, 2014

The Canadian government and the oil industry can clearly claim a victory after Tuesday's announcement by the European Commission that it will not go ahead with a proposal that would have labelled oilsands oil as emitting more greenhouse gases than conventional oil production.
But the reality is that very little Alberta oil gets sold to European countries right now, and getting oilsands oil there should still be more of a challenge — especially at a competitive price.

Although the European decision will be disappointing for many environmental groups, it "provides a signal that Europe is open for business," says Nathan Lemphers, an independent oilsands policy analyst. READ MORE HERE

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How Alberta’s oil patch teamed up with the ‘little guys’ for an end run around Obama

By Rebecca Penty, Hugo Millar, Andrew Mayeda and Edward Greenspon, Bloomberg News, October 7th, 2014

So you’re the Canadian oil industry and you do what you think is a great thing by developing a mother lode of heavy crude beneath the forests and muskeg of northern Alberta. The plan is to send it clear to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast via a pipeline called Keystone XL. Just a few years back, America desperately wanted that oil.

Then one day the politics get sticky. In Nebraska, farmers don’t want the pipeline running through their fields or over their water source. U.S. environmentalists invoke global warming in protesting the project. President Barack Obama keeps siding with them, delaying and delaying approval. Keystone has become a tractor mired in an interminably muddy field. READ MORE HERE

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Some things you probably never knew about Edmonton, Alberta:

The name "Edmonton" is a Latinized version of a Saxon word meaning "Happy Hamlet,” and was used to honour the home of HBC governor James Winter Lake who was from Edmonton, England.
The city's population stands at 782,439 people as of April 2009; while Edmonton’s metropolitan population is more than a million people.
Edmonton is the gateway to a land of majestic mountains, pristine lakes, historic rivers and northern adventures and northern industries of oil, gas, lumber and mining. Edmonton is located on the TransCanada Yellowhead Highway, a route that offers the easiest and most scenic drive across western Canada.
The city of Edmonton began as a North West Company fur trading post in 1795.
During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 prospectors and adventures travelled by rail to Edmonton and then began the long overland journey to the Yukon. Edmonton became the last supply centre on route.
Edmonton is Alberta’s capital city. The Legislature is an iconic building of grand architecture where people flock to wade in or skate on the outdoor ponds.
Edmonton’s Waste Management Centre of Excellence has one of the world’s highest standards in recycling, composting and minimizing landfill. The Clover Bar facility diverts 60per cent of its solid waste, the highest diversion rate across Canada.
Edmonton won the 2009 Corporate Knights Sustainable Cities Ranking for the large city category.

There's more at the EEDC

The vision of Edmonton as a thriving arts community, a clean environment, with big beautiful parks, a powerful economy and a unique look was compiled by over 2,200 citizens with a common goal in mind- Edmonton by 2040.

“We hope this vision will allow the flexibility, in those interim steps, to get to that point, but we should always want to get to that point,” “My assumption is that most (future) councils will want to make environment sustainable, most will want to have a good, multi-cultural community, they might have different steps in getting there, but they would still want to get there.” Mayor Stephen Mandel

Sounds like a beautiful place and I would love to live there in my, gulp, late-sixties.