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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…

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)…

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…

Is Trez Capital a fintech firm or a more traditional approach to raising capital for development?Trez Capital is a more traditional firm while we were attempting to do the crowdfunding model of getting capital for projects. Trez…

Ontario is currently seeing $2.5 billion in municipal construction contracts not subject to fair and open bidding.

Rhys Phillips chats with Amar Nijjar, co-founder and CEO of R2 Capital and Investments, about the birth, growth and evolution of both his firm and Fintech. What do you define as “Fintech for commercial real estate” and what are the…

Are CRE Fintech portals disruptive and transformative or just a wobbly niche?

When neither the vendor nor the purchaser is ready to close, the deal does not die: it lays in suspense, waiting to be re-started by the first party ready to close. 

When it comes to development, there is a world governed by science and there is a parallel world of political science.A colleague and I were admiring a stuffed mountain lion outside a state Senator’s office when he greeted us…