Real Estate investment/holding companies are generally classified as earning "passive" income and are taxed at the highest corporate tax rate (~44% in most provinces).

It takes time from when the property is sold for the title to be registered (in my case with the province-I was told it was taking up to 2 months).Nothing is automatic with transferring.

Each Province has their own foreclosed listings as well as various banks.  

Our neighbors to the north aka Canada have rent control in most provinces (I think) and also have successful investors (I’ve got family that are). 

She did...it was a building code regulation in one province of New Zealand.

I have out of province rentals, but they are all in a similar area and an area I know well. 

They're not going to waste their time helping foreigners knowing that many will end up not buying.I'm happy to refer you to my lawyer once you have found a property but it's better that you choose one in the region and province you're going to invest in as there could be "legal" differences pertaining to you.On another note, it's important that you realize that strategies that work in the US might not work in Spain and financing is different so you might want to figure out first if that works for you first to make sure you don't waste time and money unnecessarily.Hope this helps.

The prairie provinces seem to be working the best right now.

Spain as a country has a lot of things to offer, also in terms of the various provinces.

Canada is different than the US for mortgages (and within Canada there are difference among the provinces as well).