Jun 12, 2026
Over a century ago, Toronto banned apartment buildings from most residential streets — while European cities like Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam were building them as the default fabric of urban life. That decision shaped the city we live in today: a landscape of single-family houses and condo towers with almost nothing...
Jun 5, 2026
Canada’s economy is showing increasing signs of strain, with weakening economic data pointing toward a technical recession—and this month’s Real Estate Roundtable unpacks what that could mean for the housing market in the months and years ahead.
Joining me are Vancouver realtor Steve Saretsky and Toronto mortgage...
May 29, 2026
Housing debates today are dominated by one idea: if we just build more homes, prices will fall. But what if that story is incomplete?
In this episode, I sit down with Mike Fellman to unpack his report Fixing Housing Means Fixing Finance and explore why housing affordability is as much a finance problem as it is a supply...
May 22, 2026
In this episode, John sits down with Ben Rabidoux of Edge Realty Analytics for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of Canada's economy and housing market. They start with the macro picture — an economy where headline GDP growth masks a struggling private sector, full-time job losses are at their steepest...
May 15, 2026