How do Canadian RE Investors Compare Internationally

[jboire99]

How do Canadian RE investors compare with RE investors in other countries? More sophisticated,

less? Where should we be?

 

[Rickson9]

What metric? What inclusion criteria? What exclusion criteria? What kind of comparison? This is a nonsensical question.

 

[RedlineBrett]

[quote user=Rickson9] This is a nonsensical question.




Every one of this guy's posts are like that.

 

[jboire99]

I can provide more information: more RE investor information about how we compare with investors in other countries, to have a better idea about where there is room for improvement, so that we may develop more or better deals, more successful Canadian RE investors for a stronger Canadian economy. There is of course no set criteria, but I can propose criteria that could be interesting to analyze. There is also little data available per country so could be an interesting market study.








Criteria such as: where RE investors in other countries invest, in what types of deals, percentage
of portfolio invested locally vs. internationally, what kind of returns (cash-flow, equity appreciation, tax benefits), the types of structures used, average RE asset portfolio growth rate, average size and number of investments made per year, average returns per specific RE investment types, variety in types of RE investments, value-add service offered or used, extent of cooperation with community planners, percent of RE investment decisions made in groups/syndicate vs. individually, for example depending on how the study is defined.







To know more about what RE investors in other countries are doing, how we compare, if there are people interested in developing a market study like this, feel free to let me know, [email protected]. we could start with a small study. The benefit of participating would be to have more insight into what investors are doing in other countries. We would start with a few people and form an initial board, people that have a few hours availability per week

 

[MaximeValmont]

JBOIRE99,





you are right it's really hard to have access to some informations.







This is why you need a good network. Start today, and build it.





I started building mine when I was about 17 years old. Today I have contacts in Hong-Kongs, New-York, Montreal, London, Dubai , etc etc. All people that have useful knowledges : Real estate developers, Ad agencies owners, Marketing firm owners, economists, Univerity teachers, etc.





Knowlegde is not power. Knowlegde is information. But when knowlege comes into the hands of an entrepreneur, this knowledge becomes Power.





I would suggest you to start be reading the News. Just by doing this you'll know more than 99,9% of the population. A strong understanding of Global Finance, Global poiltics and Global economics is a must too. No need to be an expert, but you have to understand how the world works if you reall want to make it big. Your level of knowledge is in direct proportion with your futur net-worth, IMO.








Valmont.

 

[Thomas Beyer]

[quote user=jboire99]more successful Canadian RE investors for a stronger Canadian economy.


enlighten me ..



Stonger economy: lower federal debt, lower provincial debt, less regulations, lower taxes, far less government spending, less union power, more teachers paid for performance, more educated immigrants, less CMHC insured mortgages, more pipelines to move AB oil, more (BC, AB, ON and PQ based oil) refineries, higher taxes (or recycling surcharges) on cheap crap imported from abroad .. all those would yield a better Canadian economy .. but successful real estate investors .. I don't follow ..

 

[JimWhitelaw]

Canadian investors are typically colder than investors in other countries.

 

[jboire99]

Thanks for your suggestion about building a network, I agree something important I should develop, and gradually doing so.


Thanks for your question on clarification about improved Canadian economy, the following ideas could apply: more good land ownership and profits flowing into the hands of Canadians would have a positive impact on Canada, increased wealth could result possibly in increased discretional spending in the economy or increasing savings, possibly freeing up job opportunities or creating more job opportunities, RE investors may sometimes choose to reinvest into other businesses or the community, allow more business loans to be approved given availability of property assets as guarantee, possibly more need of services to support RE investors, more wealth resulting in tax revenues for more investment in infrastructure or other, more RE experience internationally could allow for knowledge spillover or opportunity discovery into other business sectors help boost Canadian exports or bring in foreign investment, more Canadians owning land increases chances land will be developed with Canadian values or interests in mind, or could increase use of Canadian services or products in real estate development nationally or internationally for increased export of services and job creation or preservation.

 

[MaximeValmont]

Congratulation,





You just won the award for the longest sentence in the history of this forum



Valmont.