How is the office market looking globally and are there any lessons that can be applied locally? What needs to happen in Ottawa's downtown core to increase traffic? I am super excited for this week's podcast with Colin Lynch, Managing Director and Head of Global Real Estate Investments at TD Asset Management. In this week's podcast Colin talks about the importance of the Federal, Municipal and Provincial governments being aligned to help solve the current housing crisis. We also discuss the important work that the Black Opportunity Fund (an organization that Colin is big part of) is doing to assist small businesses that are owned by Black Canadians.

Is there too much Red Tape in the Approval Process for the development of housing? Call it what you want, red tape or process. There is always room to make housing supply more efficient. In this week’s episode Councillor Glen Gower talks about increasing efficiency in the approval process of housing development. We also discuss the priorities of NCC and the priorities of the city and how these may not always be aligned.

What do the fundamentals of real estate development look like? In this week's podcast, Michael Tsourounis, the Managing Partner & Co-Head Real Estate, Hazelview Investments talks about the fundamentals of real estate development. We also discuss the importance of managing stakeholder expectations to build better communities. Organic growth is a key element in the markets that Hazelview develops real assets. To learn more about this week's podcast, click the link to listen!

Should developers pursue real estate development on NCC (National Capital Commission) land? Kelly Rhodenizer does not think so! What do you think? It was great chatting with Kelly who is the VP Commercial and Multifamily Development at Regional Group. Regional Group is a prominent commercial real estate family office here in Ottawa. During the conversation with Kelly, we also discussed building multifamily housing using steel frames instead of wood frames or concrete.

In this week's podcast, we discuss the office market in downtown Ottawa with Veteran Real Estate Executive, Shawn Hamilton. This conversation may "ruffle some furthers" as Shawn pointed out in our conversation. Shawn highlights what needs to happen in the downtown core for Office to thrive again.

Can you imagine your great-great-grandfather being an architect for the construction of parliament building in Ottawa? In this podcast Sam Fuller of Fuller Construction shares a bit of history regarding his family's involvement in real estate. So many lessons to be learned from our conversation including the strategy for managing unpredictability in construction which involves so many moving parts.

Cody Campanale was born into a real estate family. He now works as the Land Development Manager at Campanale Group. His Dad and Uncles started Campanale Group in the 70s way before Cody was born. In this podcast, Cody talks about the real estate development process and the importance of balancing affordability and energy efficiency. And it was interesting to hear Cody explain the family business's approach to land banking.

A fun educational conversation about Multifamily housing with a focus on energy efficiency.