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Wayne Hillier on Instagram: "CMHC MLI Select financing helped create a massive development boom in Edmonton, but investors overdid it. In 2024, Edmonton had low vacancy, strong rental demand and some of the best real estate investment opportunities in Canada. Then investors flooded the market and started building infill multiplexes everywhere. All that new rental supply increased vacancy and created downward pressure on rents, especially among similar new-build units competing for the same tenants. Just because financing makes a development possible doesn’t automatically make it a good investment. Edmonton real estate investors need to understand current supply, vacancy rates, realistic rents and tenant demand before buying or building. Do you think Edmonton’s multiplex rental market is oversaturated? #EdmontonRealEstate #RealEstateInvesting #EdmontonInvestor #MLISelect #CMHC"
61 likes, 17 comments - wayne_hillier_rei on August 3, 2026: "CMHC MLI Select financing helped create a massive development boom in Edmonton, but investors overdid it. In 2024, Edmonton had low vacancy, strong rental demand and some of the best real estate investment opportunities in Canada. Then investors flooded the market and started building infill multiplexes everywhere. All that new rental supply increased vacancy and created downward pressure on rents, especially among similar new-build units competing for the same tenants. Just because financing makes a development possible doesn’t automatically make it a good investment. Edmonton real estate investors need to understand current supply, vacancy rates, realistic rents and tenant demand before buying or building. Do you think Edmonton’s multiplex rental market is oversaturated? #EdmontonRealEstate #RealEstateInvesting #EdmontonInvestor #MLISelect #CMHC".
Later today, we’re inviting more Canadians to invest and become co-owners of Gander. Yup. We’re doing it again. Complete with bonus shares and all. It’s part of a bigger raise, but we’re keeping… | Ben Waldman
Later today, we’re inviting more Canadians to invest and become co-owners of Gander. Yup. We’re doing it again. Complete with bonus shares and all. It’s part of a bigger raise, but we’re keeping room for regular Canadians to own a piece of the thing they’re helping build. The first time around, we welcomed in 2,517 Canadian co-owners, and raised over C$2M. We’ve grown Gander to over 66,000 members since our launch in July, and folks from every coast are posting, connecting and doing all of things people do on social media. But without the blind outrage. And our community investors are a big reason we got here. It’s huge. Especially when it comes to getting a big, ambitious, and unconventional idea off the ground. Like a lot of startups, we’re plenty hopeful that Canada’s latest efforts to encourage investment will help more big Canadian ideas get funded. There’s certainly no shortage of those. But, as BetaKit reported, just five funds accounted for 83% of all the money raised by Canadian venture capital funds in 2025. Yes… FIVE. I’ve had bigger group chats. Are we talking to angels and impact funds? Mais oui. See “big and ambitious”, above. That said, community ownership is what makes us tick, and shows just how much Canadians want this. For us, it’s meant that everyday folks have not only bought in with dollars, but they’ve helped us build. They’ve invited friends, reported bugs, suggested features and told us what we’ve got wrong. Sometimes in a surprising (and at times painful) amount of detail. So now we have a vision for what’s next. Not just refining Gander’s app experience and features... expanding on Groups, News, Local, and giving creators tools to build community... but deploying national-scale sovereign infrastructure that’s connected to the open social web. All without giving up Canadian governance. And we’re ready for more Canadians to own this big, ambitious, and unconventional thing with us. Link is in the comments, and questions when you have them (ideally via FrontFundr). We’re happy to answer. If you’re Canadian, care about where social is going, and want to see Canada own it’s digital future, we’d love to have you along for the ride as a co-owner. Hope to have you with us. — P.S. Every creative bone in my body wants to leave this post as it is, but our lawyers would slap me silly if I didn’t add: Investing in exempt market securities is risky. Please refer to our FrontFundr page and the offering document for this opportunity. Link in the comments.
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