DSR Asset Management Overseas Property Investments

Canada Property Market is a safe investment

The Canada prop­erty mar­ket is cur­rently one of the strongest in the world; across the board Canada prop­erty prices have been ris­ing by more than 10% for the past few years, a level almost unheard of in estab­lished mar­kets like Canada. Most peo­ple expect the Canada prop­erty mar­ket to behave like the U.S., which is cur­rently in the throes of what they call a “price cor­rec­tion”, but what means a sharp-drop in house prices that were pre­vi­ously ris­ing rapidly.

They aren’t all that wrong: before the U.S. real estate mar­ket began to fall, the Cana­dian prop­erty mar­ket was see­ing sim­i­lar lev­els of growth to the U.S.. The dif­fer­ence is, the growth of Canada prop­erty prices was on a more sta­ble foot­ing, i.e. prop­erty prices were ris­ing because of demand, not because of bad agents inflat­ing val­ues to higher than they should have been. The result is that now, the Canada prop­erty mar­ket is very dif­fer­ent to the U.S. in that prices con­tinue to rise at the same above aver­age but sus­tain­able rate.

Invest­ment Prop­erty in Canada:

Canada is deservedly among the most pop­u­lar des­ti­na­tions in the world to make a prop­erty invest­ment. It is world renowned for its gor­geous land­scapes and spec­tac­u­lar rare wildlife, true wilder­ness, griz­zly bears, salmon fish­ing, and really get­ting back to your roots, not to men­tion ski­ing in places like Mt Trem­blant, and soak­ing up the ambiance of Montreal.

This gives it fan­tas­tic appeal with tourists, and makes a prop­erty invest­ment in Canada a shrewd move. Canada’s Toronto is one of the only places in the world where rental yields rise in line with prop­erty size, and Canada is the only estab­lished mar­ket in the world that has aver­age rental yields of around 8%. Despite its pop­u­lar­ity and sus­tain­able growth, you can still find a bar­gain invest­ment prop­erty in Canada, in fact it is more of a strug­gle to find rea­sons not to invest in a Canada property.

Our Canada Property:

Speak­ing of bar­gain Canada prop­erty, you won’t find a bet­ter deal than our Rouge River land plots. The Rouge River resort has been voted the best resort in Que­bec 8 years run­ning. 100 miles of the Rouge River runs through the resort, with fan­tas­tic trout fish­ing, kayak­ing, canoe­ing and white water raft­ing. A 100 mile bicy­cle track weaves through the for­est along the river bank, and the woods are full of the afore­men­tioned wild-life. In win­ter the bicy­cle track becomes a cross coun­try ski and ski­doo trail.

The one acre Rouge River plots are half the price of smaller plots nearby, with pre-designed log-cabins wait­ing to be built. All the above and their price put these up with the best hol­i­day home invest­ment prop­erty on the global market.

Buying Abroad? Pick Your Spot and Time Carefully – in Canada that means Magnificent Montreal and Now

Last year DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd iden­ti­fied Mon­treal as a top res­i­den­tial real estate invest­ment region wor­thy of inclu­sion in their over­seas prop­erty portfolio.

Since then we have seen prop­erty prices in gen­eral suf­fer large falls, and this has made the care­ful selec­tion of loca­tion even more vital for investors. No longer can a care­less prop­erty pur­chase be ame­lio­rated by a ris­ing mar­ket. Indeed the great­est losses are occur­ring where intrin­sic value was lacking.

Prop­er­ty­Wire, a pre­mier prop­erty news ser­vice, has just released this assess­ment of the cur­rent state of the mar­ket in Canada, and it broadly reflects the global picture.

“Cana­dian home prices fell 5.8% in March from the same month a year ear­lier, a faster pace of decline than in Feb­ru­ary, accord­ing to the lat­est pub­lished fig­ures from the Teranet-National Bank National Com­pos­ite House Price Index. It also shows that prices were down 8.5% nation­ally from the peak in August last year.

“West­ern Cana­dian home prices were hardest-hit, with Van­cou­ver lead­ing with a 9.6% decline in March from a year ear­lier, while Cal­gary saw prices fall 8.4%, and Toronto saw a 6.9% slide.”

Even worse, losses for UK prop­erty investors in most of Canada are being exac­er­bated by the stronger £, which has of late been gain­ing in value against the Cana­dian $. How­ever, that cur­rency trend is set to reverse, and we expect after the sum­mer the Cana­dian $ will begin appre­ci­ate again, being as it is backed by the rich nat­ural resources of that coun­try and its hard­work­ing and youth­ful population.

Mean­while, only two areas of Canada have bucked the down­ward trend, and guess where the high­est gains are being recorded right now?

“Mon­treal and Ottawa bucked the trend in March with prop­erty prices ris­ing 2.9% and 1%, respectively.”

DSR Asset Man­age­ment see Mon­treal real estate prices con­tin­u­ing to rise, espe­cially in £ terms, mak­ing Mon­treal a par­tic­u­larly appeal­ing choice for UK investors look­ing for wealth preser­va­tion, cap­i­tal growth and high poten­tial rental yields from over­seas property.

Charle­magne is the native home­town of famous Cana­dian singer Celine Dion, only a bridge away from Mon­treal city. The Manors is a pres­ti­gious con­do­minium devel­op­ment in Charle­magne, built and designed to the high­est spec­i­fi­ca­tion. It is strate­gi­cally posi­tioned at the bor­der of Ter­re­bonne and Repentigny, 2 of the fastest grow­ing cities on the east shore of Mon­treal. DSR has apart­ments in The Manors avail­able now from £125,000 — £130,000.

Slightly cheaper are the ‘Condo in the Park’ apart­ments in Repentigny itself, priced £95,000 — £100,000. David Red­fern said “This project is one of the last phases of a major devel­op­ment called “Val­mont sur Parc” that has start more than 10 years ago, where more than 500 units have been sold so far, from apart­ment to cosy detached houses. Repentigny is a big city with all the same facil­i­ties and ser­vices than big city like Montreal.”

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd has iden­ti­fied global regions with high growth and income poten­tial, and holds an exclu­sive inven­tory of competitively–priced superior-quality prop­erty for sale in hand-picked and unique loca­tions, rang­ing from lux­u­ri­ous city apart­ments to coastal build­ing plots and eco houses. You can find more infor­ma­tion about our invest­ment prop­er­ties in Canada.