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The Canadian Real Estate Investor
The Podcast For Canadian Real Estate Investors.
The podcast features in depth discussion around investing in real estate, ongoing news in the Canadian real estate market, how to structure deals and grow your portfolio.
Show hosts Daniel Foch and Nick Hill bring experience, fresh takes, well-researched information and entertainment to a real estate investing podcast for Canadians.
Episodes
- The Canadian Real Estate Investor
How Budget 2026 Impacts Canadian Real Estate
Ottawa says it’s extending the foreign buyer ban, but the law still ends it January 1. Nick and Dan go through Budget 2026 and sort what’s law from…
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Buying Land In Canada: Dirt, Dreams & The Math
Land can make you rich while producing nothing, and that’s both the appeal and the danger. Nick and Dan look at why Toronto high density land is trading…
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Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2027
PwC and ULI’s 2027 Emerging Trends report says Canadian real estate is now an infrastructure story. Nick and Dan break down the three forces driving the…
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Should You Actually Care About This Rate Hike?
The Bank of Canada just raised rates for the first time since 2023, taking the overnight rate from 2.25% to 2.5%. The economy isn’t booming, so why now?…
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The $2 Billion Heat Pump: Who Actually Gets Paid
Ottawa just put $2 billion on the table for the new National Heat Pump Rebate: up to $10,000 if you’re below median income, $2,000 for everyone else…
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Toronto Is Spending Billions to Copy Montreal’s Housing Model
Montreal was building gentle density a century before anyone called it “missing middle.” Nick and Dan go back to the Lachine Canal factory boom and…
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Did Alberta Just Kill Edmonton’s Multiplex Boom ?
On October 8, Alberta ordered Edmonton to undo its zoning bylaw within three months. That means density and height go back to pre 2024 rules and parking…
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10 Real Estate Myths...Busted
“Real estate always goes up.” “Renting is throwing money away.” “You need 20% down.” Nick and Dan take ten myths Canadians…
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Power of Sales Are Rising, But Are They Actually Deals?
Canadian mortgage arrears have nearly doubled since 2022, and power of sale listings are climbing. Nick and Dan break down the latest data and explain why most…
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Death, Divorce, and Real Estate
Death and divorce move more Canadian real estate than any rate change. Nick and Daniel break down what happens to the house when a couple splits or a parent…
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Fixed vs Variable? Don't Pick Until You Hear This
The Bank of Canada is holding rates, but fixed mortgage quotes are still going up. Dan and Nick explain how rising bond yields push fixed rates higher, why…
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Canada Didn't Shrink. StatCan Found 300,000 People.
On September 23, StatCan revised its population count and added 301,008 people. Two of the three "decline" quarters became growth. Most of the people it found…
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How, Why & When To Buy Real Estate With Partners
Most Canadian real estate partnerships run on a handshake and good vibes. Nick and Dan break down how to do it properly. They cover five ways to structure a…
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Why Are Data Centres So Controversial?
Mississauga and Oakville just froze new data centres. Saskatchewan rolled out the red carpet for a Bell campus near Regina worth over $50 billion. Nick and…
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The Real Story Behind The Podcast, The Events, & Realist
After over 400 episodes, people still told us they didn't know what to do next, so we started putting them in a room. Nick and Dan look back on how the podcast…
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Market Updates, Mega Tax Deductions & The Investor Summit
CREA August is out and every province sold fewer homes than a year ago. Oil topped $108, which pushes fixed mortgage rates up. Carney's summit pledges and the…
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The Most Important Trends In Real Estate
We switch things up in this episode and Fred Cassano from PwC interviews Dan on the Emerging trends Report produced annually by PWC and ULI TORONTO MULTIPLEX…
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Is Your Home Actually An Investment?
GET TICKETS TO CANADA'S #1 MULTIPLEX EVENT: https://realist.ca/community/events/unpacking-multiplexes-toronto Most Canadians think their home is an investment…
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Multiplex Advice From The CEO of Canada's Only Multiplex REIT
GET TICKETS TO CANADA'S #1 MULTIPLEX EVENT: https://realist.ca/community/events/unpacking-multiplexes-toronto On the Canadian Real Estate Investor podcast…
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Legal Insights On Development
We are joined by friend of the show Ben Singer, of SR Law, Ben, maintains a general commercial real estate practice, including acquisitions, dispositions…
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A Short History Of Canadian Real Estate Pt. 2
Part 2 picks up at 2008. Canada dodges the financial crisis, decides it's bulletproof, and spends a decade building brakes (four Flaherty tightenings, foreign…
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A Short History Of Canadian Real Estate Pt. 1
Canada has never had a housing market, it has a housing policy, and the market is what happens downstream. Part 1 traces 100 years of deliberate decisions: 50%…
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Moving From Residential To Commercial Mortgages
Josh Findlay of BLD Financial joins us again to share all things commercial mortgages. How he started, the journey, and the main differences between small…
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The Rise of the Citizen Developer
This week we sit down with Toronto architect and developer Noam Hazan, the guy calling the "missing middle" the most alive part of Canadian real estate. After…
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Has The Canadian Housing Market Hit Bottom?
Four years after the 2022 peak, the first real signs of a floor are showing up, national sales are up 7% from the March low, inventory is tightening, and…
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How To Avoid Mistakes With Multiplexing Properties
We are joined by Nichola & Matthew from M3 Development Management to discuss all things development mamagement a Calgary-founded firm with offices in Calgary…
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How Much Does It Actually Cost To Build In Canada Right Now?
A complete breakdown of the Altus Group 2026 Canadian Cost Guide: $573 billion in active projects across 6,652 sites, with the real-world context investors and…
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Sell At A Loss Vs. Continue To Hold
If you bought a Canadian condo near the peak of the market, you may now be underwater, or losing money every month just to keep it. In this episode, Daniel and…
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What A Developer Is Building Now, And Planning For Next
Nick & Dan are joined by Jacob Cohen, President of Daniels Corp. for a field report from inside a GTA development company. Why an activity slowdown worries…
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Lessons From A Property Manager
Brandon Sage of Landlord Property Management joins us to discuss everything you need to know about owning and managing property and tenants. TORONTO MULTIPLEX…
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The 9 Most Googled Real Estate Questions of 2026
Real estate searches in Canada just hit a five-year high, and Nick and Dan answer the nine questions Canadians are Googling most. Fixed vs. variable in 2026…
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What To Know When Building A Multiplex
Multiplex starts just passed tower starts in Toronto for the first time. Condos have stalled, and the big builders aren't structured to build on tight low-rise…
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Bank Of Canada Holds At 2.25%: Is Fixed Or Variable The Better Bet?
The Bank of Canada held its policy rate at 2.25 per cent again. Does that make fixed or variable the better mortgage choice in 2026, and could the next move…
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Cash Flow Vs. Appreciation In A Flat Market
Nick and Daniel debate cash flow vs. appreciation in Canada's flat 2026 market, prices 21% off peak, near-zero population growth, a $400B renewal wall, and…
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The First-Time Buyer Is Now 40 Years Old
The average first-time homebuyer in Ontario is now 40 years old, according to Teranet's Q1 2026 Market Insights report. At the same time, first-time buyers…
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Five Doors Or Fewer: The Small Landlord Operating Manual
Most small landlord disasters don't come from bad properties — they come from good properties run like a hobby. This is the unsexy episode that saves…
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Who Eats the Loss? Canada Finally Gets Price Discovery
Canada finally agrees housing is broken, but nobody wants to admit what fixing it costs. RBC says buyers stopped waiting for perfect. Teranet shows 36% of 2022…
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Weird Real Estate, The Right Rooms & Relationships
In this episode, we get real about why we take our events across the country it's not about selling courses from the back of the room, it's about the room…
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The $3.2B Condo Market Rescue Everyone is Talking About Pt. 2
Thousands of completed condos sit empty in a housing crisis, and now governments in Ontario and B.C. are using public money to fix it. Nick and Dan break down…
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The $3.2B Condo Market Rescue Everyone is Talking About Pt. 1
Ottawa and B.C. just unveiled a plan touching 2,200+ vacant condos, and the headline says taxpayers are now the buyer of last resort. Nick and Dan break down…
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Canada’s Housing Market Is Splitting in Two
CREA says home sales jumped 5.5% in May, but that "comeback" deserves a closer look. The seasonally adjusted bounce was real, yet actual sales were still 5.1%…
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What Renos Actually Pay You Back?
A 2026 guide to which home renovations actually return money for Canadian investors and homeowners. Walks through the big four (kitchens, bathrooms, basement…
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Is Alberta Still The Best Market In Canada?
***Correction: KV Capital's ~$961M AUM as of June 2026 represents capital deployed across lending and investment strategies on behalf of investors, not real…
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Your Credit Card Predicts Your Mortgage Default
A new Bank of Canada staff paper tracked 9 million mortgage holders and found that mortgage delinquency has a warning signal, and it starts about two years…
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Canada Is Finally In A Recession, Now What?
Statistics Canada just confirmed two consecutive quarters of negative annualized GDP. But half the country's economists say it doesn't count, the Prime…
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Is Your Cottage An Investment Or Liability?
Every spring, Canadians convince themselves a lakefront cottage will "pay for itself" on Airbnb. Most won't. In this episode, Nick and Dan run the actual 2026…
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Power Of Sale Listings Just Hit A 2-Year High. Here's What It Means
Ontario just hit a two-year high for publicly visible power-of-sale listings, and CMHC's Spring 2026 report confirms what the headlines miss: national mortgage…
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When To Use CMHC Construction Financing
Nick sits down with Josh Findlay, co-founder of BLD Financial, for a tactical deep-dive on financing Canadian real estate deals in today's market. They break…
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Where To Find The Money To Get Real Estate Deals Done
The most common question in Canadian real estate investing has one real answer: capital is everywhere... you just need to know where to look. Nick and Dan walk…
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The Mortgage Renewal Shock Is Here, But Canadians Still Believe
CMHC's 2026 Mortgage Consumer Survey is out, and Dan and I dig into what the numbers actually say about Canadian homeownership right now. The headlines: 35% of…
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The Budget Just Quietly Changed the Math On Canadian Housing
Nick and Dan break down the one line in the Spring Economic Update that actually matters: Ottawa wants private insurers to cover 5–8 unit buildings, with…
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Top 10 Canadian Cities to Invest in for 2026
A deep dive into 10 Canadian secondary markets worth serious investor attention in 2026. With Toronto condo sales at a 35-year low and Vancouver projects…
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How Long Do Recessions Last In Canada ?
Nick and Dan break down Canada's four major modern recessions and what each did to real estate. Key insight: economic recovery and housing recovery are…
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This May Upset Some Realtors
Nick and Dan unpack Real Brokerage's acquisition of RE/MAX and argue the market reaction tells the real story, RMAX trading ~30% below the headline $13.80 deal…
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How Ai Is Changing Real Estate
Nick and Dan break down how AI is rewiring Canadian real estate layer by layer, search, valuation, mortgages, construction, and operations. They cover where…
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The Tenant Screening Rule That Saves Landlords From Disaster
Sits down with Keaton Bessey, broker-owner of Greater Vancouver Tenant and Property Management, to break down what it actually takes to own and manage rental…
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The Price You See Is No Longer the Real Price
Prices aren't crashing, but almost everything just got cheaper. About 22% of new construction units have visible price cuts, but factor in the expanded HST…
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Why Are Canada's Top Earners Leaving the Country?
40% of Canadians who'd rank in the top 1% of earners are already living in the U.S. and they're taking the productivity, the tax base, and the move-up housing…
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How The Silver Tsunami Will Reshape Canada
Everyone's been waiting for the silver tsunami to crash the Canadian housing market — a flood of boomer homes hitting the market, prices correcting, and…
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What Kind Of Spring Market Will We Have?
The CREA March 2026 release looked like a flat month on the surface — sales down 0.1%, listings down 0.2%, prices drifting lower. But underneath the…