If the chattering classes aren’t chattering about politics or taxes, they’re probably gossiping about real estate. While Toronto and Vancouver dominate the airwaves, house hunters are increasingly paying attention to the suburbs, the exurbs…

In early 2019, the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (“CCDC”) released the CCDC 30 Integrated Project Delivery Contract 2018 (the “CCDC 30”). Various other North American and international industry organizations have also introduced…

The Cree Nation of Eastmain, a remote fly-in settlement on the eastern shore of James Bay, may seem, at first glance, to be an unlikely candidate for one of the Federal government’s Smart City grants. Despite the odds, the members of the…

My friend David Allison has always been reliable for a comfort-rattling op-ed, but this outing struck a nerve with me. His topic is intriguing, but on my first pass I actually felt some very interesting (subtext: potentially disturbing)…

WASHINGTON – As it enters its 11th year, America's economic expansion is now the longest on record – a streak that has shrunk unemployment, swelled household wealth, revived the housing market and helped fuel an explosive rise in the stock…

I spent more than a decade as the founder and president of a marketing, creative and strategy firm that specialized in real estate development. We helped create brands and campaigns for residential, commercial and recreational projects all…

Basic economics teaches us that when there’s demand for a product or service, supply will follow. So why hasn’t that been the case with rental housing in Ontario? Rental demand in Ontario has continued to expand at its fastest rate in more…

You would have to be living under a rock all of this time if you have not yet heard that Canada is apparently the money laundering capital of the universe and that Canadian real estate is the asset class of choice for these currency…

Perched on a hill in rural Ontario, a proposed advanced manufacturing site overlooked a handful of farmhouses whose residents were laying siege to the project. The developer had done almost everything they could think to keep the peace. The…

This is a business-story twofer, with two new disruptive business models incubated by an innovative real estate firm not, as one would expect, in the hothouse markets of Toronto or Vancouver, but in the wilds of Ontario’s cottage…