I’m thrilled to have Harley Gold, Managing Partner at Peakhill Capital as our special guest on this week’s podcast. In this week’s episode, Harley talks about the difference in lending between Canada and the United States. Harley also mentions lending in the current real estate environment. We also discuss the different metrics used by lenders to underwrite transactions and why the Debt Yield is the most important metric used by Peakhill. Click the link below to listen to our conversation.

I'm thrilled to have Dan Pereira, President at Bassi Construction as our special guest on this week's podcast. In the podcast episode, we discuss what makes an office building suitable for adaptive repurposing to residential. Dan also talks about the biggest challenges encountered when converting office to multifamily. Having a competent and experienced team is critical to a successful adaptive repurposing project. Dan also makes mention of his experience with current and previous adaptive repurposing of office to residential projects. Click the link below to listen to our conversation!

I'm incredibly thrilled to have Dennis Mitchell, CEO and CIO at Starlight Capital as our special guest on this week's podcast. What does empirical data show regarding the real estate class? What does research indicate on companies that use ESG strategies? Dennis provides insight on these questions among other items. Dennis is a regular guest on BNN Bloomberg, and it was an honor to have a conversation with him on my podcast. We also talked about the Black Opportunity Fund co-founded by 51 black professionals from across Canada. Click the link to listen to our conversation.

I’m thrilled to have Stefania Parnanzone, Director Asset Management at TCU, as our special guest on this week's podcast. In the podcast we discuss how tenant expectations have changed and how TCU is managing those expectations. Stefania also makes a distinction between an Asset Manager and a Property Manager. And should private companies care about ESG? Stefania mentions that most private companies are already performing ESG activities. And that it’s just a matter of auditing those activities. Click the link to listen to our conversation.

I’m thrilled that Warren Wilkinson, Managing Director at Colliers Ottawa is our special guest for this week’s podcast episode. In the podcast, Warren delves deep into the meaning of Alternative Assets. This is not the typical meaning of alternative assets as it relates to other types of investments but “Alternative Assets” within the real estate asset class. We discuss the current trends in alternative assets for real estate. Warren also talks about the importance of conducting due diligence before deciding to invest in real estate alternative assets. Click the podcast link to listen to our conversation.

In this week’s episode, we have a special guest, Kevin McMahon, President at Park River Properties. Our conversation centered around affordable housing and how housing affordability can be achieved. And we discussed the fact that rent control has never resulted in housing affordability. Kevin also mentions why housing affordability is viewed in a negative light. Click the podcast link to listen to our conversation.

I am super excited for this week’s podcast episode with Jason Burggraaf, Executive Director of the Greater Ottawa Home Builder’s Association. The GOHBA (Greater Ottawa Home Builder’s Association) represents builders and developers in Ottawa, so it was great to have a conversation with Jason. In the podcast, Jason talks about the newly announced initiative to remove GST on new purpose-built rental housing and how this will help make the numbers work for multifamily projects. We also discuss how large and smaller builders are implementing sustainability in the development of housing. Listen to this week's podcast episode to learn more about our conversation!