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On the front page of this edition: A special feature on mortgage financing. Mortgage financing is crucial to making your real estate projects successful. It is essential to carefully choose your mortgage creditor and the suitable financing structure. Do we always make the right choices?

Here’s a roundup of the articles in this edition:

• Legalizing cannabis cultivation is irresponsible

Rental property owners are not at all in favour of the Trudeau Government’s bill C-45. CORPIQ publishes the results of its investigation.

• Renovating one’s own building no longer illegal

Good news: Act R-20 prohibiting building owners from renovating their rental units themselves will soon loosen these restrictions.

• Quebec and cities want to expropriate neglected buildings
  During a parliamentary commission at the National Assembly, CORPIQ explained to the MNAs that increasing cities’ power over building owners is incompatible with rent-setting rates.  
• Investing in condominiums increasingly risky
  Given the current state of real estate, is it a good idea to invest in a condo building in downtown Montréal in 2017?
• Real estate promoters turned landlords
  Real estate promoters are investing more into building apartment buildings.
• The Minister responds to criticism over housing
  The examination of budgetary funds provides insight into the Minister’s intentions regarding the issues most important to rental property owners.
• Hydro-Québec to cut electricity without notice
  CORPIQ participated in the hearings of the Régie de l’énergie, which wants the right to remotely cut electricity the day service is scheduled to stop.

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