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Move Smartly: The Podcast

Jul 25, 2025

Today, Move Smartly editor Urmi Desai discusses a key hot topic in Canadian real estate with co-host John Pasalis of Realosophy Realty in Toronto.

In the last few years, we have been told by experts and advocates that removing all barriers to supply — including taxes, zoning and other government regulations — is the...


May 2, 2025

Today, Urmi interviews co-host John about his new report and video, The Great Sell Off: How Our Homes Became Someone Else’s Business, which explains just how we have arrived at our current Canadian housing affordability crisis and what we can do to emerge from it.

Read John’s full report and watch video: 


Apr 18, 2025

As Canadians head to the polls later this month, Move Smartly co-hosts Urmi and John assess the Liberal, Conservative and NDP housing plans.

Featuring John’s interview with campaigning Liberal Housing Minister, Nate Eskine-Smith.

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Jan 31, 2025

Our episode today is one of our “Move Smartly Ideas” segment, in which my colleague and co-host, John Pasalis and I take a deeper dive into housing economic and policy issues. In our conversation today, we cover what John thinks experts get wrong about the very nature of housing as a good — which leads to...


Jan 24, 2025

Today’s episode is our monthly ‘The Situation’ consumer Q/A segment - Urmi once again asks John to respond to the detailed questions you send in about the real estate decisions you are making as you navigate through the Toronto area housing market.

Today, we hear from a growing family needing more room - do they...