by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Canada and Canadians
Are you a Canuck living in the United States? Are you from the U.S. and thinking of going to Canada for the Olympics or for a vacation? Are you a Canadian visiting on an extended basis here (are you a snowbird?) Or do you have dual Canada-United States citizenship...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Canada and Canadians, Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
In Part 1, I detailed that Canada recorded its first ever surplus in bilateral direct investment with the U.S. last year. Direct Canadian investment in the United States was $17.1 billion greater last year than U.S. direct investment in Canada in 2008. This amount...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 26, 2015 | Canada and Canadians
The U.S. government’s Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative has impacted travel by Canadians to the U.S. The question is whether the passport requirement portion of the law has been as disruptive to Canadians traveling to the U.S. as once was feared. As of June 1 all...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 24, 2015 | Canada and Canadians
What’s happening with Canadian real estate prices? What about the economy in the frozen north? Have Canadians stopped spending in the US? Although the Canadian economy has slowed, the flow of investment by to the US has been largely unaffected. Housing seems to be...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 23, 2015 | Canada and Canadians
For those Canadians living in the United States, Passport Canada has announced a Simplified Passport Renewal process. Previously the mail-in renewal process required that the application be verified by a specific type of person (such as an attorney). Called a...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 9, 2015 | Canada and Canadians, Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
The total dollar volume of the sale U.S. real estate to foreign buyers were estimated at $68.2 billion, according to the National Association of Realtors® 2013 Profile of International Home Buying Activity. As reported in my previous two articles on the 2012 Profile...
