The City of Vancouver recently published this video talking about missing middle housing. For those of you who are following this trend (and reading this blog), there won’t be a lot that is new in the video (although Uytae Lee is great). But I’m sharing… Read More
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We’re building an airport!
One of our partners shared this video with me today: And it is possibly one of the greatest 39 seconds of interview you’ll ever watch. It is a video of Jim Fahy interviewing James Horan about the construction of Ireland West Airport. The important context… Read More
The first vacation rental REIT
This is a fascinating interview with John Andrew Entwistle, the founder of vacation rental company Wander. The way to understand Wander is that it is a vertically integrated travel company. So unlike Airbnb, for example, Wander owns all of their real estate (vacation homes in… Read More
[Video] Saudi Arabia’s new 170-km-long vertical city
I am usually known for my optimism for the future. But I am having a difficult time deciphering whether the new 170-km-long vertical city that Saudia Arabia just revealed (see above video) is a legitimate development proposal, a new metaverse project, or a dystopian spoof… Read More
[Video] RAD Marketing’s Future Frontiers real estate podcast
I was recently on RAD Marketing’s Future Frontiers podcast talking about real estate stuff with Daniel Marinovic (CEO and Managing Partner of Forest Gate) and Sean Zahedi (Vice President at RAD). I haven’t watched the video yet and I honestly don’t remember what I said… Read More
Making River City
My good friends over at Urban Capital recently released a short film about the making of their River City project here in Toronto. (If you can’t see the embedded video above, click here.) For those of you who aren’t familiar, River City is a 4-phase… Read More
Toronto condos on the rise again
CIBC Deputy Chief Economist Benjamin Tal was recently interviewed by Larysa Harapyn of the Financial Post about the state of the housing market in the Greater Toronto Area. The message he delivers is pretty clear: “If you think that Toronto is unaffordable now, you wait.”… Read More
Why do haunted houses look the way that they do?
This short 5-minute video by Vox is a perfect example of how, just like with fashion, architecture and design tastes are always changing. The things we like at one point in time may not be what we like in the future. And it can go… Read More
How to respond to the coronavirus
I just finished watching this TED talk with Bill Gates. For those of you who are up on their TED talks, this is not the one from five years ago where Bill predicted a pandemic and told us all that we were nowhere near ready.… Read More
The lost history of Seneca Village
This is a fascinating short video (by Vox) about a former neighborhood in Manhattan known as Seneca Village. Today, its land forms part of Central Park. Most of us would probably agree that building Central Park was both a good idea and a powerful example… Read More