Canadian Industrial Real Estate Blog

BNN’s Squeezeplay
Topic: Commercial Real Estate Woes
Ian Gragtmans appears with Andrew Hoffman, Chief Operating Officer at Menkes Developments Inc.

BNN Squeezeplay - May 20, 2009
 

Ian Gragtmans will be appearing on BNN’s “Squeezeplay” on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 5:10pm EST with special guest Stephen Sender, Managing Director and Industry Head, Real Estate for Scotia Capital.

In case you miss Ian’s appearance, we will be posting the video clip to our blog shortly after airing.

BNN’s SqueezePlay
Topic: Global Commercial Real Estate
Ian Gragtmans appears with Chris Tambakis, CEO of Adgar Investments

BNN SqueezePlay - January 21, 2009

Ian Gragtmans will be appearing on BNN’s “Squeezeplay” on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 5:20pm EST with special guest Chris Tambakis, CEO of Adgar Investments & Development Inc.

In case you miss Ian’s appearance, we will be posting the video clip to our blog shortly after airing.

Sam Zell is considered one of the best real estate entrepreneurs in the World. His early years in real-estate investment could be traced back to, while an undergraduate, purchasing apartments in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He went on to create the Equity Group Investments, which spawned three public real estate companies, including: Equity Residential, the largest apartment owner in the United States, Equity Office Properties the largest office owner in the country, and Manufactured Home Communities, a mobile home company. I recently received a link to a humerous, insightful and very awakening message by Sam. To hear Sam's message, click here, turn on your computer volume and have a listen.

Enormous and very impactful news this week with the Conservative Canadian government announcing that Income Trusts will be taxed in the future. The stock markets took a pounding the next day in Canada with the TSX having it's largest single drop in 2 years. Good news for our industry in that REIT's will not be subject to these taxes as long as they meet certain thresholds. Click here for a look at a press release from REALpac regarding this very subject and/or click here for an article in the Globe & Mail.

The Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) wrote briefly on October 2, 2006 about the economic outlook for the US. Have a look at the basics behind the report by clicking here.

Dr. Sherry Cooper spoke to a large audience this morning at the Real Leasing conference in Toronto. Generally, Dr. Cooper has a very positive outlook. Some of her suggestions / predictions are as follows: