Some experts say the North American real estate market is starting to become overvalued again. In today’s post we’ll compare property prices to rents and explore whether or not overheated markets like Vancouver are headed for a hard landing. 🙂 Rent vs Buy Let’s take two fictitious singles, Alice and Barry, who are both from Vancouver and work for… Read More »
MICs – Real Estate Investment Through Debt It appears both the real estate and stock markets in Canada are at all time highs 😯 Meanwhile yields on bonds and GICs are still near record lows. 🙁 Even cash is losing its appeal because energy and food prices have pushed the inflation rate to a multi-year high. Which begs the question: Where… Read More »
The Canadian housing market continues to defy gravity! 🙂 According to CREA the average home price in May increased to $416,584, a 7.1% jump from a year ago. The number of homes sold also increased by 5.9% month over month, which is the largest gain in several years. A lot of people feel concerned that this kind of growth is unsustainable. They… Read More »
I recently received payment from my tenant for the first half of the year’s rent. So I have $5K now sitting in the bank. What should I do with it? Well I want to invest in the mortgage market. I first heard about mortgage investing when I attended a free industry seminar. But it wasn’t until recently that I seriously started to look into it. Here’s how… Read More »
Earlier this month Farm Credit Canada published its annual farmland values report 🙂 Across the country farmland values on average increased 22.1% in 2013. Great Scott! 😯 Saskatchewan farms experienced the biggest jump of 28.5% Blimey! (゜o゜) That represents an 89% increase since 2011. A couple of years ago I explained on this blog why Saskatchewan had the most investment potential due to its growing resource… Read More »
What a fantastic game over the weekend 🙂 Our household debt to personal disposable income in Canada is around 163% today. In the U.S. the ratio is only 140%. This ratio is greatly affected by the price of homes. The Canadian housing market has done well since the last recession, but home prices in the U.S. have fallen.… Read More »