Commercial Real Estate Library

Thomas founded Prestigious Properties in 2000, a western Canadian company with a focus primarily on apartment buildings, but also single family houses, condos, land parcels and mobile home parks. He is happily married with two adult children.  Thomas is the author of 80 Lessons Learned on the Road from $80,000 to $80,000,000.  https://www.amazon.ca/80-Lessons-Learned-Road-000/dp/09921083...

China is 3 months ahead of North America when it comes to this pandemic. With that in mind, we spoke with Betty Wong - leader of Colliers' Capital Markets Team in China. Based in Shanghai, Betty is responsible for coordinating all major mandates, as well as client strategies associated with real estate investment in China with investment volume of more than $4Bn CAD.  China has already eased...

Very timely episode with Well Grounded Real Estate VP, Gabriel Diamond. Well Grounded Real Estate is a Toronto based private landlord and manager. They own a portfolio of multi-residential and retail properties throughout Southern Ontario. For this episode we focused on his retail portfolio.  The Federal government unveiled plans to assist retail businesses just in advance of this episode. Ga...

Kingsett Capital is Canada's leading private equity firm. Founded in 2002, KingSett has raised $11 billion of equity for its Growth, Income, Urban and Mortgage Strategies. KingSett has completed $40 billion of acquisitions, dispositions and mortgage lending and currently owns interests in a $15 billion portfolio of assets. KingSett continues to seek further opportunities to invest in a wide range...

Reetu Gupta was kind enough to join us for the second time. Reetu is the President and CEO of Easton's Group of Hotels as well as The Gupta Group. Easton's Group of hotels is the largest private developer of hotels in Canada. They currently own and operate 19 hotels across the country. On this podcast Reetu shared how the hotel industry is being impacted by COVID-19, what she is doing to weather t...

We are continuing our series on the impacts of COVID-19 on the commercial real estate market. Joining us to discuss retail is Adam Paul - President and CEO of First Capital Realty. First Capital is one of Canada's largest owners, developers and operators of mixed-use real estate. They have 158 properties across Canada and an enterprise value of $9.3Bn. First Capital is a landlord to many of the wo...

Gord Cook is an Executive Vice President and Top Producer at Colliers International with market leadership in several verticals - industrial investment, industrial big box development, infill redevelopment and multi-family apartment investment sales. In 2019 Gord was once again recognized as the top industrial broker at Colliers International Canada.  The focus of this podcast is on the impac...

Lois Cormack is the President & Chief Executive Officer and is a member of the Board of Directors of Sienna Senior Living, one of Canada’s largest senior living companies. As a respected executive with experience in real estate, hospitality, health services, senior living and infrastructure, she has led the company through significant growth that has seen it more than double in size over the p...

On this episode we discuss affordable ownership with Chief Development Officer for Options for Homes, Daniel Ger.  Options develops high quality condos with their building partner Deltera (of the Tridel Group of Companies). They take what would normally be a developer's profit and offer it to purchasers as down payment support to make home ownership more accessible sooner. This mission driven...

On episode #23 we sat down with Reetu Gupta, President and CEO of Easton's Group of Hotels, the largest private hotel developer in Canada. With 19 hotels, several under construction in addition to multiple condominium projects across Canada, Easton's Group is one of the most well recognized developers/operators in the Canadian hospitality sector.   Reetu Gupta is a complete powerhouse. N...

Bob Corteau is the CEO of Altus Group, a publicly traded commercial real estate services company. Their platforms are used by virtually every major real estate player in North America. With revenues of approximately $500M, Altus Group has massive positive impact on the real estate industry on a daily basis through their Argus software, Realnet data, tax and appraisal consulting, and additional ser...

Brett Miller has over 3 decades of experience in the commercial real estate industry. He began his career at Canderel. He eventually moved on to become the managing director of CBRE's Montreal operation. In 2012 he became the CEO of JLL, leading their company's growth across Canada. Recently he returned to Canderel as the CEO.   Canderel has been around for over 40 years operating across...

"A veteran of city planning has been tapped for the top job at city hall." - Toronto Star, March 28th, 2018.   We were extremely lucky to be joined by Toronto's Chief City Planner on this episode. Toronto is a global city, and with that comes a number of challenges. We have housing affordability issues, heavy infrastructure demands, and a steady influx of newcomers. Gregg Lintern is the stead...

Co-living is a vertical gaining serious momentum in across the globe. At it's core, it's a move toward smaller units combined with more living area over all / amenities for the tenants. Medici Living Group - the parent company to North America's Quarters - is the largest operator of co-living today, having recently raised $1.5Bn USD to go after the sector in North America and Europe. We were extre...

In episode 17, we sat down with Michael Emory - CEO and Founder of Allied Properties REIT (Allied). Allied was known initially for its leading role in the emergence of Class I workspace, a format created through the adaptive re-use of light industrial structures. This format typically features high ceilings, abundant natural light, exposed structural frames, interior brick and hardwood floors. Fro...

In this conversation Dan Sheremeto joins Dayma and Garret to discuss the world of Commercial Real Estate Investment Banking.  How does the real estate investment banking process differ from a traditional real estate transactions? How do you advise on the purchase of a retirement portfolio valued at $986M? Where should we look for major opportunities in the next 5 years? Dan answers all these...

In this discussion we sat down with one of Canadian real estate's most impactful contributors - George Przybylowski. As the founder of the Real Estate Forum and Vice President of Informa - George is the organizer of Canada's largest annual conferences and expositions focused on commercial real estate investment, leasing, financing and development; building design, construction and renovation; and...

Sam Mizrahi is the visionary behind The One - the tallest residential project in Canada currently being constructed on the southwest corner of Yonge and Bloor in the heart of Toronto.  Sam takes us through how he strategically assembled 14 properties, why the retail they are building is going to be the best retail in Canada, and how you execute on a project of this magnitude - the constructio...

In this episode, we talk seniors housing with Canada's most successful seniors housing developer - Steve Suske.   Steve Suske is President and CEO of Suske Capital Inc. A proven entrepreneur with over 40 years of professional experience in developing and managing businesses, Steve has overseen, led and advised over $5 billion in business transactions across a variety of sectors.   ...

Wayne Berger is the CEO of IWG (parent company to Regus, Spaces, HQ, Signature, and No.18) for Canada and Latin America. He was generous enough to let us shoot this monster episode in a Spaces location in Toronto's Queen West neighbourhood. Wayne sits at the helm of IWG - the largest and most successful provider of coworking space globally. In this episode we cover A LOT including:  - Why lar...

A little bit about Avtar - he joined Colliers in 1981, and still holds the all-time record for gross revenue by a broker. Throughout Colliers, Avtar has a status among legends (though he would never admit that) achieved from a rocket-like career trajectory culminating with him successfully leading the Colliers National Investment Team.  Currently he is the principal (and founder) of Premise P...

Hal Gould is the co-founder of New York Fries & Cultures Restaurants, the former President of Wendy's Canada, and the owner of Ivest - the largest student housing owner/operator in Canada. He's one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. His story is largely a tale of gritty entrepreneurship that has paid off. There is A LOT to take from this episode.  Check out more content at https://ww...

This was a super fun episode with President of Real Estate for Deloitte Canada, Sheila Botting. Much of our conversation centred around the future of commercial real estate. We spoke about the following: - Deloitte's cross Canada real estate strategy shift (eg. in Toronto Deloitte went from working out of 11 different office buildings to housing all employees at the flagship Bay-Adelaide tower. -...

The guys cover a wide range of topics including the following:  What is blockchain technology and why is Bitcoin important? How will programmable escrow influence the purchasing process? Why should people trust in cryptocurrencies over traditional currency? How will blockchain technology influence the future of ownership (fractional ownership)?.. and a whole lot more!   Polymath enables...

In addition to Centurion's dominant apartment portfolio, they also boast one of Canada's largest student housing portfolios, a successful corporate lending practice, and they're a large equity investor in the multifamily development space (and a whole lot more). In this discussion, we go through how Greg founded the organization, how we could solve Canada's (and specifically Ontario's) rental hous...