achievements
achievements
WREN Members are an active group of investors who have partnered on some exciting projects
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
FORME on 54th in Langley, BC captures the best of the Fraser Valley
11 WREN Club Members have partnered to purchase 4 units in Forme
WREN Members developed a 145 acre subdivision
on VANCOUVER ISLAND
Only 3 lots left - 10 acre parcels north of Victoria, at new King Creek Estates.
View the MLS Listing here.
5 WREN Members very excitedly bought the first WREN BFF Mansion!
We have room for one more WREN partner to join this community on Crescent Road!
4 WREN Members partnered to purchase land in Campbell River, BC
Joan Probert explains the re-zoning and development strategy for this rare lot
A gorgeous character 4-plex in the historic neighbourhood of Fernwood, Victoria
A partnership of WREN members have purchased this home
COMING SOON: Phase 3 of River Valley Estates, in Cranbrook, BC
24 acres with amazing views of the river valley and the Rocky Mountains
Raintree Wealth Management introduces Make Space
Capital Partners
Self storage is a recession-resistant business and represents a growing opportunity for Real Estate investors
Triple Crown phase 3 & 4
pre-sales coming soon
in LANGFORD
Welcome to the Triple Crown Community – a family-friendly, mixed use development close to outdoor recreation
WHY NOT BUY A PLACE TOGETHER? WREN Members are actively looking for a BFF Mansion in Mexico
Casa Virgilio Hotel B&B, located in Nuevo Vallarta, is a good example of what we are looking for!
Completed & Fully Subscribed Projects
