Bloomberg columnist Barry Ritholtz recently interviewed Richard Barton about his startup companies. Barton founded Expedia while he was an executive at Microsoft (Gates and Ballmer era) and then went on to cofound Zillow (real estate site) and Glassdoor (jobs site). I’ve been following the work… Read More
I woke up this morning to this view: I then went for a swim. The water tends to be on the cooler side in the Georgian Bay, but with the weather we’ve been having it’s pretty perfect right now. At this point I’m thinking about… Read More
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV recently converted an old industrial building in Hong Kong into new office space. The overall project size is roughly 200,000 sf. What’s unique about the project is the obsessive focus on transparency and glass. Here’s what the interior looks like: And… Read More
One of the reasons I decided to start blogging was because I saw how open the tech community had become – with respect to sharing their ideas and experiences – and I thought that the same thing could and should be done in real estate,… Read More
I often get asked about the methodology behind my blogging. (Though I have written a few posts about it already.) Most people seem to assume that I sit down on the weekends. Draft a content calendar. Write a bunch of posts. And then queue them… Read More
I am a big fan of Twitter. I use it more than any other social network and any other app on my phone (according to my battery usage). In fact, I’m such a fan that I recently started buying shares. I don’t own a lot… Read More
I was out for brunch last weekend with a few close friends from high school. It’s a “monthly reunion” that happens nowhere close to every month. But the hope is certainly there. During brunch the topic of my blog came up. And one of my… Read More
Ideas by Janet Kwan on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js I started writing this blog a year and 10 months ago. At that time, I had no real title for it (it was just called “Cities”) and I had no idea where it was going to take me. All… Read More
Back when the commercial internet first started to take off it was uncommon to use your real name online. Instead people relied on usernames and other pseudynoms to represent themselves. I honestly can’t remember what I used in those days, but I’m sure it was… Read More
A few weeks ago I was invited by Toronto realtor Andrew la Fleur to participate in his True Condos podcast series. I had actually never met Andrew before in person, but I knew of him because of Twitter, his blog, and because he was an early user… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 