Making Money in Real Estate: The Canadian Guide to Profitable Investment in Residential Property, Revised Edition - Hardcover

Gray, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470836202 ISBN 13: 9780470836200

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2017

Synopsis

The Canadian Guide to Investing in Residential Property

Successful real estate investments play an essential role in Canadian investors′ portfolios. The growth in wealth in real estate markets has presented investors with tremendous opportunities to capitalize on and expand their range of investments. In Making Money in Real Estate, Douglas Gray demystifies the Canadian real estate market for novice investors and presents new strategies for veteran investors. Learn to:

• Understand the real estate market cycles
• Find a property and assess its investment potential
• Build a trustworthy real estate team
• Arrange financing on good terms
• Use negotiating tactics that work
• Understand tax and legal issues
• Manage a property
• Avoid the pitfalls that many investors fall into
• Examine the pros and cons of non–residential property investment options

Making Money in Real Estate is a critical and indispensable tool in investment decision making.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Douglas Gray is Canada’s bestselling real estate and small business author. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have relied on his books for their comprehensive information, insider tips and practicality. Here is what the critics have said about his real estate guides:

"Gray delivers the goods. It is all–Canadian, and not a retread book full of tips that are worthless north of the U.S.–Canada border. It’s chockfull of practical street–smart strategies and advice ... thorough and eminently usable."

Business in Vancouver

"... no legalese here ... just some good ol’ street–level English that explains – mostly for the benefit of novices – all the real and perceived complexities of mortgages."

Calgary Herald

"The prolific output of real estate and financial books establishes Gray as a Canadian voice ... [He] provides consumer insights into securing the best deal and avoiding the pitfalls ... Gray’s legal background has given him valuable insights."

Edmonton Journal

"[The] author knows what he is talking about ... full of street–smarts and practical advice..."

Halifax Chronicle–Herald

About the Author:

Douglas Gray, B.A., LL.B., formerly a practicing lawyer, has extensive experience in all aspects of real estate and mortgage financing. He has acted on behalf of buyers, sellers, developers, investors, lenders and borrowers. In addition, he has over 30 years of personal experience investing in real estate. He is the author of 20 best–selling real estate, business and personal finance books, as well as a consultant and columnist.

Mr. Gray gives seminars on real estate throughout Canada to the public, as well as for professional–development programs for the real estate industry. He has presented to more than 250,000 people and is frequently interviewed by the media as an authority on real estate and small business entrepreneurship. Mr. Gray is president of the Canadian Enterprise Development Group Inc. and lives in Vancouver, BC. His website is www.homebuyer.ca. 

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0470836202
• ISBN 13: 9780470836200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380