Our American friends in the Pacific Northwest may have caught Rudy Nielsen on their radio on Aug 6th. He was interviewed on America Outdoors Radio by John Kruse. They talked about the ins and outs of buying recreational land in British Columbia.
To listen to the interview, click here.
Frank O’Brien, Business in Vancouver, June 7, 2016
Rain and thousands of hectares of verdant farmland have sparked a new multimillion-dollar industry in the outback of northern British Columbia: harvesting hay and shipping it to drought-stricken livestock producers in China and Korea.
From a standing start four years ago, nearly 10,000 tonnes of hay per year is now being baled and shipped in containers to Asia out of the Port of Prince Rupert.
Frank O’Brien, Western Investor, May 30, 2016
LandQuest Realty Corp.celebrates its 20th anniversary this year as the largest dealer in land in British Columbia: but scratch the surface of the clamouring global demand the company is now experiencing, and LandQuest is really dealing in water, according to the company co-founders.
“Every time it rains in B.C, we should get down on our knees and give thanks,” said Rudy Nielsen who,
Frank O’Brien, Business In Vancouver, May 4, 2016
The blast radius from Vancouver’s real estate boom now extends as far north as 100 Mile House in B.C’s Cariboo region, according to Rudy Nielsen, co-founder and president of LandQuest Realty Corp. of New Westminster.
“We have buyers from the Vancouver area looking at lakefront property up there,” said Nielsen.
An influx of homebuyers who have cashed out of Canada’s most expensive housing market is also being seen on the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island,
Frank O’Brien, Western Investor, April 2015
There has been a long term strategy about real estate investing: drive an hour out of your city and buy land. And wait.
Today in Metro Vancouver, with suburban land cresting over $1.5 million per acre, the wait for many investors could be over, but lands of opportunity remain on the fringe of Vancouver and B.C.’s other large cities, analysts say.
All B.C.
Frank O’Brien, The Prince George Citizen, March 12, 2015
Buying raw land on the fringe of Prince George is among the best real estate buys in British Columbia, according to Rudy Nielson, president of Niho Land & Cattle Co. and the largest private landowner in the province.
“Prince George has it all. It is a hub city for the province,” Nielson said following an address to the annual Jurock Land Rush conference in Vancouver.
Frank O’Brien, Business in Vancouver, March 10, 2015
Buying raw land on the fringe of Prince George is among the best real estate buys in British Columbia, according to Rudy Nielsen, president of Niho Land & Cattle Co. and the largest private landowner in the province.
“Prince George has it all. It is a hub city for the province,” Nielsen said following an address to the annual Jurock Land Rush conference in Vancouver February 28.
Mark Hume, The Globe & Mail, Feb 27, 2015
Not all ghost towns are dead. A few are kept alive by a handful of residents who refuse to quit or by entrepreneurs who have improbable dreams of resurrection.
But most have been erased by decay, and some of Canada’s history is crumbling with them, erasing memories of what happens when resources are exhausted, or market forces dramatically shift.