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Contents A Message from the Conference Co-Chairs Huge, unfettered and liquid, U.S. residential market attracting investors Is the US apartment market on your radar? Tenants sensible when choosing where to live Tighter capital, slower sales squeezing smaller developers Canadian multi-residential market in “stellar” shape
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A Message from the Conference Co-Chairs
Kris Boyce
Greg Speirs
The successes of 2013 will prepare investors to get even more excited for 2014, says conference co-chair Kris Boyce.
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s the chief executive officer of Greenwin Inc., a full service real estate firm in central Canada, Boyce is extremely optimistic about future market performance. “2013 was a great year for many people. A lot of our clients were making some great purchases; some were selling and making great money. Everybody is hoping the interest rates don’t go too crazy and they can continue into 2014 with a little bit of caution, but still seeing the growth.” In the meantime, major market players are gearing up for redevelopment beginning next year. “We’re looking at our existing properties, we’ve applied for permits, and we’ll be doing some building in 2014. I think it’s going to be a great year for our markets, a lot of shovels in the ground, even though no one is speaking publicly about that right now.” Boyce believes the most important indicator for real estate lies in employment and job growth. “As long as we’re in a thriving economy where people are investing in our cities, and we continue to have growth centers, the job growth will continue our success. If that changes, that could be a concern. “This year, a lot of people will be talking about not just condos but also muti-residentials. It’s not a bad word and people should be speaking about it.” Greg Speirs, senior vice president of investment management at Realstar Management, is more cautious about the year to come. “The investment market is more balanced between buyers and sellers. momentum for the market has slowed down. We’re not in a down phase but in a stabilization phase, where people are looking more carefully at deals, taking the time to evaluate not only if it’s the right asset but, ‘Am I going in at the right price?’” he says.
Much of the strong investor demand in the first half of the year seems to have settled down following the June increase in interest rates. The impact of higher interest rates has meant the financial models used to develop pricing strategies for assets needed to be adjusted. “Similarly, REITs were impacted by their unit prices being reduced materially; ultimately, they will have more difficulty raising capital,” says Speirs. However, Speirs says they will continue to look at new projects while considering ways to enhance the value of their existing pool of assets. This will make them more competitive, he says, in a market where “we’re seeing more innovation in services provided to tenants,” particularly among condo developers, US multi residential operators, and even the hospitality sector. Kris Boyce Conference Chair
Greg Speirs Conference Chair
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HUGE, UNFETTERED AND LIQUID,
U.S. residential market attracting investors “The sheer number of people in the United States leads to a massive number of households being formed each year,” observed Milestone Apartments REIT CEO Rob Landin. “The population of Canada is about 34 million. The population of Texas is about 34 million.”
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ilestone – which since March has been listed on the TSX as a Canadian mutual fund trust – has invested heavily in garden apartments in the Southeast and Southwest United States, where Americans attracted by sunbelt jobs are joined by more than 1.2 million immigrants flooding north annually, driving residential growth. “Most of those folks are renters,” noted Landin, whose firm only owns properties in the United States. Milestone’s two- and three-storey, 20-plus acre sites include “significant amenities such as pools, business centres, clubhouses, tennis courts and playgrounds.” “The majority of apartment product in Canada is highrise,” Landin contrasted. “It’s an older-stock, highrise product which offers a much different experience.”
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“The other big difference is rent controls,” he continued, “which primarily governs the Canadian market. Where we operate, we don’t have any.” “That lets us create asset value through renovation and management efficiency,” Landin explained, “increasing rent as well as the quality of the experience for the tenant.” Size also gives Milestone’s 1,000-person, vertically integrated staff significant buying leverage, operational efficiency, access to deals, and the ability to implement its business and investment strategies in a very timely and seamless manner, he added. “The multifamily space in the United States is a very large and liquid asset class, with some $100 million in transactions during the last 12 months,” Landin said. “Historically it has been a very liquid market, continues to be and we expect it to remain so for the foreseeable future.” ■ Robert Frank
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Class AA projects for $80,000 to $100,000 a door,” Erixon says. anadians are the first to admit it: the United States boasts a “The same project in any major Canadian city would be closer much more robust inventory of institutional grade apartto $200,000 to $300,000 for Class A units, so we feel that ments than Canada. While here at home most multi-resithere’s great upside potential.” dential developers have focused on condominiums, the US rental If there is a hitch, it’s taxes. Unlike stocks, real estate is not apartment market is filled with new product. treaty protected, so a Canadian who buys US real estate must Avison Young operates an active US apartment fund with pay taxes in both countries. both American and Canadian “We’re able to buy class A and double A Companies such as Avison investors. Since real estate got projects for $80,000 to $100,000 a door. Young have designed structures overbuilt and the US housing market fell apart, “Apartments The same project in any major Canadian city – some more elaborate than others – to help minimize the burhave really been the most active would be closer to $200,000 to $300,000.” den. Some of these structures are and the most popular product Amy Erixon, Avison Young tax efficient but require filing a type,” says Amy Erixon, the US tax return; others don’t require filing in the US but involve firm’s principal and managing director of investments. paying US taxes and getting reimbursed in Canada. “They’re Cap rates are another reason to invest across the border. all effective,” Erixon says, “and structured based on the indiWhile rates in the gateway cities are similar to those in Toronto vidual needs of investors.” ■ or Vancouver, those in second tier markets are considerably Robert Frank more attractive in the US. “We’re able to buy Class A and
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TIGHTER CAPITAL, SLOWER SALES squeezing smaller developers Steven Gross
“While the decrease in condo sales that we’ve seen during the past year or two is probably going to continue for the next 12 months,” forecasts Steven Gross, “rising rents have, at the same time, made the development of new rental apartments viable.”
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onsequently, many smaller condo developers who no longer have the same access to debt capital are now considering converting their projects to apartments and/or selling them to rental developers,” remarked Bentall Kennedy’s vice president, investment management. Gross attributes part of the change to demand driven by boomers returning downtown after their offspring have decamped. “It has driven up rents a bit, plus CMHC has made home ownership more difficult and costly,” he observed. By rightsizing suite design, Gross explained, developers have reduced wasted and dead space in new projects, resulting in much more efficient use of space.
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“Nonetheless, it’s not the cost of construction that has made developing new apartment buildings economically viable,” he observed. “Rather, it is rising rents. We have seen a growing number of residents prepared to pay a fair rent for good quality rental accommodation and for the flexibil- “...many smaller condo ity and lifestyle that renting developers who no affords them.” longer have the same There also tends to be litaccess to debt capital tle difference today between adjacent condo and apart- are now considering ment developments in terms converting their projof in-suite specifications and ects to apartments or amenities, he added. selling them to rental Canadian condo markets remain uneven, though, developers.” and Gross noted that more Steven Gross, Bentall Kennedy developers are experiencing difficulty thus far in Toronto than Vancouver. “New high-rise rental seems most viable in Calgary and Toronto,” he recounted. “We haven’t seen as many developers in Vancouver coming forward to explore alternatives.” “With the highest rental apartment inventory in the country, the Montreal condo market has been slow to get going,” Gross contrasted. “Montreal has a long way to go before the inventory and delivery of condos gets anywhere near to where Toronto and Vancouver already are.” ■
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