Showing posts with label Edmonton 2013 outlook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmonton 2013 outlook. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Love him or loathe him...

Alberta Oil Sands Investment Real Estate News®
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May 14th., 2013
Volume 14, Issue 6

Dear Friends and Partners,

Like him or hate him, Kevin O'Leary delivers some sage advice in his interview below, be certain to read it!

Spring has sprung and with it lots of activity in the housing market. Lots of new listings and for homes that are well prices ($300K-$340K) are selling fast. Townhouses continue to lag in pricing and multifamily are selling fast and for higher prices than last fall.

I have seen tax assessments jump a $100K for small multifamily in target areas - good for what you're holding, bad for what you want to buy.

Get positioned now as there are still bargains out there.





 















East Edmonton: Legal Triplex Cashflow Property near River Valley 
Turbo charge your portfolio. Upgraded 1940 built legal 3 unit property with separate entrance to each suite. All units to be upgraded using our Purchase Plus Improvements strategy at purchase time and costs wrapped into mortgage. You'll find a spacious 4 BD main floor unit, a 3 BD + loft upper unit and a bright 2 BD unit downstairs. There is en-suite laundry for each unit as well.
Each unit has its own parking space and a double detached garage adds cash-flow. 2009 Safe Housing certificate approved. Excellent location a short walk to Ada Boulevard and surrounding River Valley. 7 minutes to downtown Edmonton, ravine, with routes to the Yellowhead and Wayne Gretzky Drive minutes away, 15 minutes to UOA and NAIT. Fast access to to all bus routes.

Comes complete with great tenants making this a totally turn-key property for you. Convenient east central area with easy access to transit and downtown. Highlands is a mature, sought after area near the River Valley. Highly rentable; solid value and increasing rents. HUGE upside potential due to the great purchase price, strong economic fundamentals and the proximity of this property in relation to Edmonton's desirable River Valley.

Purchase price: $550,000K Total Investment: $127,135K. Your Estimated 5 Year Profit $76K. Your pre-tax Total ROI is 60% or 12% per year


These 3 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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Lamphier: From the Dragon's mouth: Kevin O'Leary talks oil, government and the Chinese economy

By Gary Lamphier, Edmonton Journal, May 2nd 2013

EDMONTON - He’s the flinty, blunt-spoken star of two hit TV shows: CBC’s Dragons' Den and ABC’s Shark Tank.

Along with business journalist Amanda Lang — whom he calls “the best-looking communist on television” — he also co-hosts CBC’s daily Lang & O’Leary Exchange.

Love him or loathe him — and there are plenty of folks in the latter camp — Kevin O’Leary’s snarling mug is everywhere these days.

Like hockey loudmouth Don Cherry or real estate mogul Donald Trump, O’Leary’s bombastic, in-your-face style has earned him a kind of cult celebrity status.

The founder of The Learning Co., which he sold to Mattel for nearly $4 billion in 1999, O’Leary chairs a billion-dollar mutual fund empire (O’Leary Funds), boasts his own line of award-winning wines (O’Leary Fine Wines), and is the best-selling author of The Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women & Money.  FOLLOW THIS ARTICLE


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Alberta Forecast to Lead Economic Growth in 2014

By Mario Toneguzzi, Calgary Herald, April 30th 2013

Alberta's economy will be second to Newfoundland & Labrabor in terms of 2013 growth before leading the country next year, according to a new RBC Economics forecast.
It said Alberta's real growth domestic product will increase 3 per cent this year, with Newfoundland and Labrador at 5.1 per cent. Nationally, growth is forecast to be 1.8 per cent.

The RBC report says Alberta will best all provinces in 2014 with real GDP growth of 4.2 per cent.

Statistics Canada last week said Alberta, for a second straight year, led the country with growth of 3.9 per cent in 2012, compared with 1.8 per cent across the country.  GRAB THIS STORY

 
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International Price Gap for Heavy Oil a Wasted Opportunity for Alberta

By Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail, May 2nd 2013
Heavy oil producers are receiving top dollar in international markets, even as Alberta oil sands producers face ongoing frustration in trying to reach the refiners who are eager to process their diluted bitumen.

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) competes with Canadian heavy oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico, and its heavy Mayan crude is currently priced at $96 (U.S.) a barrel, $5 more than the trendsetting light crude, West Texas Intermediate, and nearly $30 more than Canadian heavy crude was fetching in the North American futures market.  GRAB THIS STORY
 
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I appreciate all your calls and emails. I'm looking forward to helping you with your next step towards building real wealth.
Your success continues EVERYDAY, let me help you build for tomorrow.

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."  -James Matthew Barrie

Warm Regards,

Todd and Danielle Millar


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Friday, March 01, 2013

Psst... We're doing it again

Alberta Oil Sands Investment Real Estate News®
Glenn Simon Inc., Suite 1217, 5328 Calgary Trail NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Tel 1-888-780-5940 Fax 1-888-276-4517
www.glennsimoninc.com   email: info@glennsimoninc.com

March 1st., 2013
Volume 14, Issue 2

Dear Friends and Partners,

We seem to be teetering back into the scary-territory for North American and European news. I touched on this a few weeks ago along with the upcoming Alberta budget and tempering talk of a 'bitumen bubble'. It's better to talk a jumper down than to shoot one, and by setting expectations of a tough budget, lower oil revenues and costs of greening the stage is set to anticipate a slower and more challenging market  the other half to that being  it's pretty tough to predict with certainty what will happen in the future.

Our Alberta and Edmonton economy we will do well. Yes, house prices will go up and down, as will oil. We'll eventually get it up, down and out of Alberta to 'world markets' and that will enable us to get a better dollar for it.

In the meantime we are still on a steady course with a great opportunity to pick up CF properties with stress-tests built in (for example: higher vacancy rates, higher interest rates) to buffer the storms that inevitably come up. There is a lot on the go and so much positive renewal happening in Edmonton right now, it is a shame to let some gloom shadow an otherwise positive outlook.














 










Central Edmonton: 4-Suite Cash-flow Property in Queen Mary Park

Turbo charge your portfolio. The advantage of this transitional area is the nearby development of the downtown core (city airport and arena). It is a tougher area for management but offers a lot of upside. The property can be purchased low and combined with $90K of renovation wrapped into a PPI mortgage you can invest in a nice, safe, upgraded building. Note this is pre-renovation and total purchase price after renovations are approximately $550K. Upgraded 1953 built 4 unit property with separate entrance to lower suites. All units to be renovated using our PPI strategy at purchase and costs wrapped into mortgage. You'll find spacious 2 X 2 bd upstairs and bright 2 X 2 bd units downstairs. Renovations at time of purchase to include  2 HWT, windows, kitchens, bathrooms and flooring. The 2 lower units are each 1000 sqft units with access to yard. Features down to include new counters and flooring. Upper units to have newer kitchens, lighting and bathrooms. There is common laundry down. The yard is large and partially fenced. Only 5 minutes to NAIT and downtown, with routes to Yellowhead and Fort Saskatchewan. Plenty of stores, shopping and on bus routes.

Comes complete with great tenants making this a totally turn-key property for you. Convenient central area of Queen Mary Park with easy access to transit and downtown. Queen Mary Park is a mature and transitional area that will benefit from the downtown development ripple effect. Highly rentable area; solid value and stable rents. HUGE upside potential due to the great purchase price, strong economic fundamentals and the proximity of this home in relation to Edmonton's improving downtown core. 

Produces $904.76 positive cash flow per month using an investor's mortgage plan - taking advantage of current low rates.


Purchase price: $550K Total Investment: $124,376.36K. Your Estimated 5 Year Profit $76,773.38K. Your pre-tax Total ROI is 62% or 12% 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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Alberta Economic Snapshot

By Troy Media, February 23rd 2013

CALGARY, AB, Feb. 23, 2013/ Troy Media/ – Maybe it was the hockey lockout, or maybe just the cold weather. Whatever the reason, Albertans seemed to be in little mood in December for one of their favourite pastimes: shopping.
According to Statistics Canada, total retail sales in the province slumped to $5.712 billion in the last month of 2012, a 2.5 per cent dip from November and the second consecutive decrease. Compared to December of the previous year, total sales are higher by 1.9 per cent. The figures are adjusted for seasonal variation, so any of the effects of Christmas shopping are accounted for.  GRAB THIS STORY
 


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Alberta's Housing Market and Affordability Levels Amongst the Strongest in Canada

Canadian News Wire, February 25th 2013

TORONTO, Feb. 25, 2013 /CNW/ - Alberta's housing market remained vibrant in the final quarter of last year, buoyed by attractive affordability levels, accelerating population growth, a healthy labour market and a strong provincial economy, according to the latest Housing Trends and Affordability Report issued today by RBC Economics Research.
The report indicates that although the pace of home resales slowed in closing months of 2012, the housing market tightened up as fewer properties were listed for sale.

"While homes are not particularly cheap in the province, Albertans boast the highest household incomes in Canada, which helps ensure that the share of their budget taken up by homeownership costs is easily manageable," said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC. "Barring an unexpected shock to the economy, housing market conditions in Alberta should remain positive in 2013."   FOLLOW THIS ARTICLE

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Redford Signals New Spending for Alberta's non-oil economy in Coming Budget

By Kevin Carmichael, Globe and Mail, February 24th 2013
Alberta Premier Alison Redford is signalling she will not roll out an austerity-minded budget as her government confronts an unexpectedly growing deficit, instead pledging new spending aimed at making her province less dependent on oil.

In an interview in Washington on the weekend, Ms. Redford addressed the debt-and-deficit issue more in the style of President Barack Obama than Ralph Klein, the former Progressive Conservative premier who made balancing budgets his overarching priority.  READ MORE HERE
 
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I appreciate all your calls and emails. I'm looking forward to helping you with your next step towards building real wealth.
Your success continues EVERYDAY, let me help you build for tomorrow.

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."  -Bill Bradley

Warm Regards,

Todd and Danielle Millar


===SPECIAL NOTICE: NO CASH, BUT GOOD CREDIT? CALL US TODAY TO LEARN HOW YOU CAN OWN INVESTMENT PROPERTY===

P.S. Stay ahead by checking out Danielle's daily blog at Edmonton Real Estate Investor for all your cutting edge market news and information.

P.P.S. Don’t forget to visit our website and take advantage of the Resource Tools and product section including REIN's #1 real estate books and Quick Start homestudy sets at a discount. Get your copy of the Canadian Success Stories book and the 2010-2014 Top Ten Investment Towns of Alberta and Ontario.