A real estate joint venture (JV) is a deal between multiple partners to work together and share resources to develop a real estate project. While a joint venture can take many forms, typically one party will provide the expertise while the other party provides the financing. They agree to share ownership and profits in proportion [...]
Unless you have a stock pile of money or started with a large source of funds, to make it big in real estate you must look beyond cashflow. Most Canadian real estate investment classes, books or buzz words are all about cashflow, cashflow, cashflow. The majority of people believe that successful investing is only [...]
Streamlining Commercial Real Estate Real estate is not recession proof and the commercial real estate industry goes through economic cycles including downturns just like any other sector – some assets are more affected than others. Whether the cause be from a virus like COVID-19, policy or simply the end of the real estate cycle. In [...]
At Crescendo Equity, our business consists of identifying, evaluating, buying, and operating prime Canadian multifamily properties on behalf of our investors. Our geographical focus is on Canada and in particular Niagara, Hamilton, Kitchener and certain parts of Montreal, Quebec. Our investors trust us to make the best possible choices and generate the highest possible returns. [...]
Niagara is Growing Rapidly Niagara Falls Ontario is known for being Canada's largest and most popular tourist area due to the Niagara Falls and casinos. Like most places in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Niagara is growing rapidly. Toronto’s affordability problems have investors and homeowners looking elsewhere to smaller submarkets for investments. Apartment Investor [...]
After you’ve paid all your bills and you have cash to spare—whether it’s in the thousands or the millions—the question will arise, what do you do with it? Typically, your number one goal will be to preserve your cash. To be absolutely guaranteed that it will be there for you tomorrow, you can either bury [...]
In real estate it is important to take the long-range view of property investing. But every once in a while, when the situation warrants, we’ll sell a property. And when we do, just like any other property owner we’re mindful of the tax that we are exposed to (capital gains). Often overlooked or unknown by [...]
How will the Coronavirus affect the Canadian Housing Rental Market? As Canada—and the world—plunges headlong into the COVID-19 health crisis, stakeholders in the business of multifamily apartment building ownership are asking themselves the same question everyone else is: “How will the pandemic affect me, my business, and my tenants?” The negative effects on segments of [...]
