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Two Apartment Buildings in Waterloo Region Sell For $45+ million

(…and we have many clients looking to buy big Kitchener Waterloo apartment buildings – contact us today if you have one!) Two Waterloo Region Apartment Buildings Sell For $45+ million… …$46,710,000 to be exact Killam Properties has announced the purchase of 225 recently built residential units in Cambridge, in two river front apartment buildings. This [...]

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Commercial Real Estate Market Update in Kitchener Waterloo – Multi Family

What are apartment buildings in Kitchener Waterloo selling for?  originally posted at: http://www.benjaminbach.com/?p=771 Multi-Family Housing in Waterloo Region One of things I find myself talk to real estate investors about these days is the price of apartment buildings. Seems there are lots of people looking to acquire high quality investment property, but there is not [...]

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Waterloo Student Housing Investment Property under construction

New Waterloo Student Housing Investment Property under construction

A few weeks ago we looked at some student housing under development in Waterloo on King Street (Update on Waterloo Student Housing Under Construction) as well as some recent sales of Waterloo investment properties (Recent Investment Property Sales in Waterloo Region). I want to give you a quick update. So, last time we looked at [...]

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Commercial Real Estate news in Canada

Commercial Real Estate news in Canada

Canadian Commercial Real Estate news Some interesting Commercial Real Estate news recently – we’re seeing investors from both within Canada and internationally looking to place equity in the secure and stable Canadian economy; for many, their preferred vehicle is tangible real estate investment properties.  Homburg Invest plans Canadian REIT spinoff Homburg Invest (HIIa.TO), which owns [...]

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Global Players looking at Canadian Commercial Real Estate

Big international players are looking at Canada for profitable commercial real estate investments.  Kuwait Finance House just announced a JV with Killam Properties to pick up north of $400 mil of Canadian multi family residential real estate Kuwait Finance House establishes a joint venture with Killam Properties Inc. The initial program is to acquire CDN$250 [...]

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March 2010 Update: Kitchener Waterloo Commercial Real Estate Market

One our other blogs we’ve looked at the red hot performance of the residentla Kitchener Waterloo real estate market. How has the Kitchener Waterloo commercial real estate fared? In March 2010 there were 8 sales on the MLS, and these sold properties were listed between $39,899 and $3,300,000 and represented a mixture of multi tenant [...]

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Canadian Bank Looking to Lend More for Real Estate

Canadian Bank Looking to Lend More for Real Estate

The local Kitchener Waterloo newspaper, The Record, had an interesting article this morning on one of Canada’s lenders, Laurentian Bank. Locally, Laurentian has been involved in financing many large student rental apartment buildings in Waterloo, especially the newer ones that have been developed in the last few years. Laurentian Bank looks at real estate financing [...]

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Why Cash on Cash is King with Property Investors

The following article excerpt was written by W Darrow Fiedler, CCIM at KW Commercial in the USA, and is reprinted with his permission.  You can find more about Darrow at http://kwcommercialidaho.com/ Simple ideas are the easiest to understand and implement in life. This has been ratified over and over again as we have journeyed through [...]

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Construction of 144 Park in Waterloo estimated at $21 million

144 Park is a new luxury condo building going up in Waterloo, Ontario at the corner of Park and Allen in Uptown Waterloo. It has units going over $1 million, making it the most luxurious development in the region. I was researching the condo, and I found this interesting report from Daily Commercial News and Construction [...]

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1,000,000 sq ft MegalMall in Kitchener Waterloo to be named The Boardwalk

The largest shopping area in the Southwestern Ontario – One million square feet – is being built in Kitchener Waterloo, at the corner of Ira Needles Blvd and University Ave West. This is a project that Paul Dietrich and Voisin Developments are undertaking; Paul started assembling the land in 1985. From The Record: When completed [...]

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