About WREN
WREN is a social enterprise and community with representation from women all across Canada.
WREN is accessible and peer-driven, setting a Canadian standard for women’s empowerment by facilitating access to supportive peers, industry experts, and networking events (online and in person).
WREN envisions women creating and building relationships that help them move on to more informed and confident investing, and to form collaborative partnerships in Real Estate, business, and life! Through their connection with WREN, many members choose to participate in a multitude of active or passive investments. We’re better together!
Community
WREN believes that being of service to the community is paramount to success in business. WREN members have experienced many cultures in their work and travels and no matter where we are from or where we go, we all want the same things: to be loved, to have freedom, to feel connection, and to be part of a community. We work collaboratively with organizations that share this mindset.
What is a Social Enterprise?
Social enterprises are revenue-generating businesses with a twist.
Whether operated by a non-profit organization or by a for-profit company, a social enterprise has two goals: to achieve social, cultural, community economic and/or environmental outcomes; and, to earn revenue.
Our Founder
Liza Rogers
Liza founded WREN for YOU. Whether you are building your financial future or seeking new adventures, we’ll help turn your dreams into reality through innovative real estate solutions and the power of community.
Advocacy
- Collaborated as a team of ten women from across Canada to write a best selling book
- Completely furnished a home for a family in need
- Launched a foundation to give back to the community
- Launched a ‘Benefit Corporation’ to offer a transition house to men with addiction issues
- Participated regularly in the Urban Development Institute, the Greater Victoria Housing Society, regional chambers and other local and national housing advocacy associations
- Ran for political office as an MLA
- Expanded our Cohousing network of experts and organizations working to solve Canada's housing shortage and persuading CMHC to recognize more formally these critical housing options
- Celebrated a member elected to the board of the Greater Victoria Housing Society
- Advocated to all levels of government in Ontario promoting laws that support housing diversity
- Designed Start Here with Real Estate, a self-directed foundational course on real estate investing
Events
- Hosted 36 Happy Hours and 80 virtual events across Canada
- Expanded programming by launching the popular Turbo Tuesdays, tailored for eastern time zones
- Hosted hundreds of conversations, workshops, and educational sessions on topics including legal partnership structures, legacy planning, affordable housing advocacy, investing in self storage units and in international properties
- Launched the Money & Mindset course to support financial goal setting
- Hosted workshops on international property investing
- Tested a new mobile app that will help Coliving property owners to efficiently manage their properties and tenants
Laid the groundwork with the city of Grand Forks to develop multi-family accessible projects - Welcomed new members, new sponsors, new affiliates and new friends!
Collaborative Property Investments
- Supported members who made their first Real Estate investments
- Partnered to buy 145 acres of subdividable land in Sooke
- Launched a coliving space in a heritage property in downtown Toronto, offering housing to marginalized people, travellers, remote workers, and students
- Launched our first Cohousing BFF Mansion
- Purchased a 36,000 sqft lot in Campbell River and successfully re-zoned to higher density multi-family
- Invested passively in storage units, US syndications, and into private equities
- Completed renovations, flipped homes, and partnered with general contractors
- Bought new primary residences and leveraged capital out of ‘old’ ones
- Bought a bank foreclosure mobile home to flip
- Developed advanced knowledge of municipal process by working on a land assembly for a future large development project
- Achieved a running total of $250 million in combined member and affiliate Real Estate transactions
- Laid the groundwork for investing in Motels/RV parks in BC's remarkable Kootenays region
- Made in-roads in the US “Build-to-Rent Single-Family-Rentals" in Tucson, Arizona with a new 71 unit, detached purpose built rental community
- Renovated a Victoria character conversion which is now a highly successful, cash flowing short-term rental
- Explored a range of purpose-built rentals projects to align with CMHC's new initiatives including in Edmonton and Victoria
- Partnered with US capital-raising professionals and closed on projects valued at close to $100 Million
- Advanced plans for creating a tiny home village
- Invested over $2 million in private money in each other
- Dispatched investment reconnaissance teams to Europe, the Philippines, the US, and Mexico
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Live and virtual! From a tight circle of members, to a wider community of investors, industry experts and allies, you’ll find connection and support at virtual and in-person events.
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