Hamilton Is Number One!

by Darrin DeRoches August 23 - 29, 2012

This is not just a fluke but a second year in the number one spot for the best city to invest in all of Ontario. Who is number two? Who cares? We are number one! The Real Estate Investment Network of Canada considers a great deal of factors to come to this determination. The biggest indicators are Real Estate and Jobs and our future looks pretty bright in these important factors.     R.E.I.N. founding partner Don Campbell states “known formerly as a hard–working steel town, the city has quickly shed this image in the eyes of potential investors – as indicated by the record breaking building permit values Hamilton has experienced in recent years” He also went on to talk about the potential of the city and why high tech jobs will come to our city. R.E.I.N. believes we are good enough to be number one for a second year, so it is about time for us to start tooting our own horn.     Twitter explodes every time a new food truck rolls into town or new artists step onto James Street, but we need to be promoting our city for more than this. By the way, I follow all the food trucks on twitter and loved the chicken poutine on Dirty South this week and I have supported artists for 20 years – my point is we need to promote our business (jobs) and real estate to people outside of our city. We have to stand up a boast a little.     I’ll start. Tonight I saw a promo for season 2 of My House Your Money which featured my episode the DeRoches family episode #29 Tuesday Sept 18 2012 at 7:30 on the W network. We shot the show a couple of months ago in and around Hamilton. The crew was very impressed with the city and kept asking about the real estate and our “cool” streets. They went on and on about having an amazing lunch at the Bread Bar on Locke and this is coming from the “hipsters” from Toronto. They keep calling me looking to shoot another episode in our city but it’s hard to find families who are willing to be on camera.      Our city has so much to offer and we need to work it all together and promote everything. Locke, Hess and Augusta streets, waterfalls, Supercrawl, Ticats, Bulldogs, Innovation Park,  top hospitals, farms, airport, food trucks, film and animations studios, busy water port, well priced properties, parks, Mohawk, McMaster – you name it, we not only have it, we have the some of the best! So stand up Hamilton and say it with me – “We are number one.”     The phones have already started ringing from investors outside of the city and they will continue up to next year when we go for the three peat! So start blowing your horn Hamilton and when they come here for a new high paying job and buy a reasonably priced home let’s take them to Art Crawl and hit up a food truck – I’ll be there. V