What Income-First Investing Actually Means

When most people talk about real estate, they are generally talking about price. Is the market up or down? Is now the time to buy or to wait? Where is the bottom? These are the questions that fill the headlines and, while valid, miss the underlying operating structure that allows real estate to perform across…

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Why We Build and Manage Homes We’d Want to Live In

There is a question we ask ourselves at every stage of the Alliance process, from acquisition through to day-to-day management: would we want to live here? It sounds simple. But it shapes everything we do: how we design a unit, how we maintain a building, and how we respond when a resident needs something. Toronto…

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Why Freehold Rental Near the Core Behaves Differently Than the Rest of the Market

For nearly a decade, Alliance REIT has shared its market perspective directly with our investors through regular newsletters. What follows draws on those communications and the convictions that have guided our strategy since 2016. We have written for years about the structural undersupply of well-located freehold rental housing in Toronto, the risks of speculative condominium…

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