The big news today in Toronto real estate is that the province of Ontario introduced 16 new measures intended to rein in the housing market. Some of the most notable measures, which many of you will have seen in the headlines, include a 15% tax… Read More
Steven Ballmer – the former CEO of Microsoft and current owner of the LA Clippers – has just launched a website called USAFacts. He describes it as a 10-K for the US government. Put differently, it is a non-partisan website offering a “data-driven portrait of… Read More
I would like to pull out one more idea from Derek Thompson’s article, What in the World Is Causing the Retail Meltdown of 2017? It is this prediction that self-driving cars could maybe become the new retail store: “Once autonomous vehicles are cheap, safe, and… Read More
There is no shortage of articles talking about the disruption currently taking place in the retail space. Just this past weekend the New York Times wrote: Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point? With nine U.S. retailers filing for bankruptcy protection in the first three months of… Read More
The United Nations and Bloomberg New Energy Finance recently published a report covering global trends in the renewable energy space for 2017. Here are some of their key findings: – 2016 was a record year in terms of renewable power capacity installed worldwide. This includes… Read More
You can’t have an Easter dinner in Toronto right now without somebody bringing up the topic of our “crazy” real estate market. Below is a chart from Bloomberg showing the year-over-year change in home prices in the Greater Toronto Area since 1990. It also shows the… Read More
Ever notice how whenever you’re taking an Uber the driver usually gets another fare just before he (Uber drivers are overwhelmingly male) is about to drop you off? That’s on purpose. Earlier this month the New York Times published an interactive feature describing how Uber… Read More
I just stumbled upon the above project. It’s in Portland. It’s called Slate. It’s 147,000 sf. It sits on a 100′ x 200′ site. It was completed last year. And it was developed by Beam Development and Urban Development Partners. Besides having two very cool… Read More
FiveThirtyEight (Jed Kolko) published a post last month called, “Americans’ Shift To The Suburbs Sped Up Last year.” What Kolko did was take recent population estimates from the US Census Bureau and group them into 6 categories based on the size of the metro and its… Read More
On Monday, Tesla surpassed GM in market value, making it the most valuable U.S. automaker. It’s also the first time in modern history that this title was held by a car maker not based in Detroit. The gravitational pull to Silicon Valley is immense, today.… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 