This week on the #TUCpodcast we welcome Alex Sharpe from iQ Offices and Lanescape.ca to talk about co-working spaces in the wake of COVID19, laneway housing and regulations across the City of Toronto, and what we can expect in Toronto development as we move into 2021.

The #TUCpodcast is excited to welcome 2 major players in the Toronto real estate industry to the podcast; Bob Blazevski from Diamond Corp and Brian Brown from Lifetime Developments. The theme of this episode focuses on partnerships and Bob and Brian discuss working with like-minded individuals who have the same goals in mind. In this episode, we learn more about both firms, challenges that have come up along the way, and the exciting projects they have on the go.

Bill Gairdner joins the #TUCpodcast to talk about how he got started in the real estate industry and shares his knowledge about starting his own mid-rise development company Gairloch Developments. The guys chat cost of construction, OMB, where Toronto’s industry is going and more on this episode of Toronto Under Construction.

In this episode, Steve Cameron and Ben Myers speak with Naram Mansour, President of Carlyle Communities. Naram discusses how he got started in the industry, shares details on the construction of some of his projects & heritage sites (hello Peter & Richmond), touches on how he thinks COVID will change the way we build communities and shares some details on his lectures at the Schulich School of Business – York University.

As first generation builders with no portfolio handed down to them, Tariq and his brother Saud, started their development company at the young age of 24 and 25 with big goals and ambitions of doing development. Starting small with income properties, they began to build their development building with a townhouse community in Burlington. Today, they are a major player in the Burlington development space, and making moves into other markets across the GTA. The firm focuses on high-rise, low-rise, and mixed-use developments. We are excited to welcome Tariq Adi to the Toronto Under Construction podcast.

On this episode of Toronto Under Construction we welcome Dana Senagama. Dana is CMHC’s Principal Market Analyst responsible for the Greater Toronto Area. Prior to joining CMHC, Dana worked at the International Monetary Fund and the Corporate Head Office of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Dana has a MA in economics from the University of Sussex and a BA Honours in economics from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. Dana joins the podcast to discuss CMHC’s Housing Market Outlook, a special Summer 2020 report that focuses on Canada’s major real estate markets and how they’ve been (and will be) affected by #COVID19.