S.E.C. Real Estate Observer

Gravenhurst volunteer honoured nationally for dedication to Beaver Creek inmates
For more than 20 years, Darryl McCullough has dedicated his time to help rehabilitate offenders

Warren Buffet once said: “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in business. I read and think. So, I do more reading and thinking, and make fewer impulse decisions than most people in business.” Oh, how I wish those words and […]

Build-to-Suit with Lease Option We found an attractive parcel of land, ideal for our buyer client’s latest commercial venture. However, coming to terms on the price for the property turned out to be a battle of wills between a well-heeled and non-motivated seller and our buyer. The seller knew the property’s location and growing positive […]

We had an excellent quality large asset offered for sale. Owned by a successful nonprofit faith group, it had everything for the discriminating buyer: excellent dining facilities; beautiful, well-appointed motel rooms; cabins; and a land lease section with privately owned homes/cottages, all located on a beautiful, long beach. It had “pride of ownership” written all […]

A while ago, I had the privilege to work on a very interesting and creative land assembly. That journey is as follows. THE LOCATION A substantial gap had emerged between students and apartments in a particular submarket required to house doctors, nurses, support workers, and students through the location of a large and growing regional […]

Fact: every day there is vacancy in a project is a day that benefits cannot be recouped. In other words, the opportunity for rental income or alternative benefits is gone forever. Vacancies occur for a number of reasons, be it curable or incurable economic obsolescence, structural obsolescence, and so on. One alternative is to exchange […]

How often do you wonder about the added yield potential of the free and clear property and/or other equity sitting dormant in your portfolio? Many times, developers, investors, and/or business owners (hereinafter called the “Sponsor”) are short on capital to get quality deals funded. The banks or other lenders may have shown interest in funding […]

Editor’s Note: Although Darryl has not been traveling to meetings as much recently, he wants everyone to know that he still cherishes his Society of Exchange Counselors (S.E.C.) membership.  He has been busy just north of the border working on a new website to benefit commercial real estate brokers and agents.  Below is an excerpt […]

NO TWO NATIONS MATCH UP MORE CLOSELY TOGETHER OR ARE WOVEN TOGETHER MORE DEEPLY, ECONOMICALLY, AND CULTURALLY THAN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. In December 2010, I wrote an introductory article for the Observer about Canada. It summarized macro-demographics, economy, Canada–US relations, and so on. A review of that article can reacquaint. My observation over […]

A discussion on Canada has been requested. To that end, below we will touch briefly on Canada Demographics, Canada’s Economy, My Target Market, Canadian Taxes and Summary U.S./Canada Relations…