Montreal real estate: Profitable income properties are not easy to find

Real estate investment is a popular way to try to build wealth over time, but it isn’t always easy for new investors to tell when a property will be a good buy....

Take all those downtown condo megaprojects, for example. According to a market analysis released by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) last December, 57 per cent of the condos in newly built towers with more than 300 units were owned by investors....