Jarrett Walker of Human Transit recently published an interesting post talking about downtowns. His argument is that we shouldn’t be planning our transit networks around the traditional notion of a single-centered city. Here’s a snippet: So growing a single downtown isn’t the key to becoming… Read More
A reader recently sent me a New York Times article talking about Chinese buyers flooding into the US residential real estate market. This is something that I’ve written about before, but I liked the “graphic” section called The Roots of China’s Real Estate Rush. Here are… Read More
I’m off this week to South Florida to check out Art Basel (among other things). This week isn’t a great week to be leaving the city since it’s the Toronto Real Estate Forum and lots of people are coming to the city for that. But I’ve… Read More
On Thursday night I spoke at Product Hunt Toronto about the overlap between real estate and tech. My slide deck will be made available online and I’ll be sure to tweet it out and link to it in the comment section of this post. What… Read More
The Neptis Foundation here in Toronto just recently published a fantastic report looking at the regional economic structure of the Greater Golden Horseshoe area. It’s called Planning for Prosperity. In it they identity the polycentric nature of employment in the Toronto region by way of… Read More
In 1960, real estate investment trusts were created in the U.S. with the goal of democratizing real estate ownership. Here’s how Yale professor Robert Schiller described it: “REITs were created by law in 1960 to democratize the real estate market and make it possible for a broad… Read More
Lately I’ve been reading about and interested in the idea that the more grateful you are, the happier you can actually become. It’s similar to the idea that positivity can lead to better outcomes in your life. Believe something and you make it true. It… Read More
I recently had the opportunity to visit the 200,000 square foot manufacturing facility of H+ME Technology here in Toronto. Here’s a photo of myself and Nick Zicaro: H+ME (originally called Brockport Home Systems Ltd.) is a division of developer Great Gulf, but they were never… Read More
https://500px.com/embed.js I am very interested in bitcoin because of the underlying technology behind it – namely the blockchain. And that’s because it has the potential to be applied to and to disrupt many different industries and sectors, including real estate. That’s why I was fascinated… Read More
Whenever I read studies that cite census data, I’m often left feeling like the data is out-of-date. Five years – which is how often Canada conducts its national census – is a long time. Somebody could move to this country for school, complete a 4-year… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 