Secrets of the Canadian Real Estate Cycle

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Campbell, Don R.

Secrets of the real estate cycle: an investor's guide / Don R. Campbell, Kieran Trass and Greg Head.

Includes index.

Issued also in electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-470-96471-2

1. Real estate investment—Canada. I. Trass, Kieran II. Head, Greg, 1972– III. Title.

HD316.C3165 2011 332.63′240971 C2011-901783-0

ISBN 978-0-470-96471-2 (cloth); 978-0-470-95261-0 (ePDF); 978-0-470-95268-9 (Mobi); 978-0-470-95269-6 (ePub)

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