Notably, five of those negative growth years occurred during the 2008-2012 Global Financial Crisis.

I’m all about operations and know I can build great relationships and processes to succeed in Canada and other global markets.

LA has just entered into another round of shutdowns.Civil Unrest, Global Pandemic, Record Unemployment...Election.Yet, LA real estate is through the roof!

And Global Warming is a reality, which climate scientists predict, will lead to the southern parts of North America, will be turned into hyper-dry deserts.

Last I heard it was global cooling when the cold records were shattered in the North East a couple years ago.

All to say that the entire global economy is VERY far from stable.

@James Park  - Thanks for the kind words, I like to take a step back and look at the global picture once in awhile and try to gleam something that others aren't seeing if possible.

HOwever it does boil down to industry and jobs.. you got them you have a nice vibrant community the Mill be it steel lumber textiles closes down and now you have out flow and dead and dying real estate.I mean there is a reason that many of the landlords on this site can buy rentals for under 30k in many many parts of the central US and rust belt.. comes down to supply and demand there is more supply than demand..  

Southern Ontario is VERY expensive, even compared to global market levels.Continued success!

Everyone should consider this these days....some very smart RE investors even combine the two. 1/3 of global production is tech, and one 1/3 of that is in San Fran/ San Jose.