Matthew Slutsky (co-Founder of Buzzbuzzhome) and Ara Mamourian (Founder/Broker at TheSpringTeam.ca) have a chat with Danny Tseng - Architect and Development Director at Syllable Design. 

This week we discuss the future of the urban office. With everyone working form and many of the World's largest companies announcing more flexible work from home opportunities, will anyone come back? 

Is downtown dead? Subscribe and listen to find out! 

Matthew Slutsky (co-Founder of Buzzbuzzhome) and Ara Mamourian (Broker at The Spring Team at Property.ca) continue to dig deep into the Toronto Real Estate market.

This time we talk resale. Why are people selling now? Are Buyers buying? What about prices? Down? Up? 

We tackle all of these questions and more with best selling author, realtor, and all round great human, Brian Persaud!

Once again, huge shoutout to Mortgage Jake for jumping on board as our first ever sponsor! Listen for his ads throughout the video and audio versions.

Matthew Slutsky (co-Founder of Buzzbuzzhome) and Ara Mamourian (Broker at The Spring Team at Property.ca) have an important chat about Real Estate and COVID-19 with two amazing humans (see below)

We had to go remote on this one so it's our first VIDEO episode. You can check your podcast provider a little later today for the full audio version.

Once again, huge shoutout to Mortgage Jake for jumping on board as our first ever sponsor! Listed for his ads throughout the video and audio versions.

The Corona Virus has taken the world by storm, turning the entire world upside-down in a heartbeat and is going to change the way that the real-estate industry operates for many many months, and potentially forever.

But, life isn’t stopping. It is time to evolve the way we do business. Today we are welcoming two very different guests to talk about the changes taking place, what builders are doing in the wake of COVID19, and how we are going to move forward as an industry.

Please welcome Andy Brethour of PMA Brethour Real Estate Corporation Inc, Brokerage and Saul Colt - The Idea Integration Company!

Can a small town reinvent itself to be relevant for future generations? Ara Mamourian (founder of TheSpringTeam.ca and Matthew Slutsky (founder of BuzzBuzzHome.com) speak to Innisfil’s CAO Jason Reynar about using Uber for public transportation, paying taxes by Bitcoin, and building a city of the future called Orbit City.

This episode is sponsored by Mortgage Jake! Please visit MortgageJake.com to check our your BEST mortgage options.

This week Matthew Slutsky (Founder and President of BuzzBuzzHome) and Ara Mamourian (Founder and Broker at TheSpringTeam.ca) sit with Peter Freed, founder and visionary behind Freed Developments.

Peter Freed started out building single family homes in Markham then quickly became one of Toronto's more in demand developers with transformative projects like 75 Portland and 55 Stewart. As if literally transforming and creating a new community in King West wasn't enough, Freed has created a ton of trend setting hospitality spaces like the Thompson and many more to come to Freed's more recent completions at Yonge and Eglinton. 

Happy Listening and as always, your reviews are appreciated!

This week Matthew Slutsky (Founder and President of BuzzBuzzHome) and Ara Mamourian (Founder and Broker at TheSpringTeam.ca) sit with Brian Brown, Principal at Lifetime Developments

Brian and Lifetime Developments are Liberty Village Pioneers. They've transformed Liberty Village from underused employment lands to a booming micro city within a city with thousands of new jobs and amenities. All while respecting Liberty's roots and contributing to the growth and involvement of both the residential and businesses communities. 

Did you know WeWork is coming back in a big way with a flagship location here?

What do you think about Liberty Village? 

This week Matthew Slutsky (Founder and President of BuzzBuzzHome) and Ara Mamourian (Founder and Broker at TheSpringTeam.ca) sit with Sean Galbraith of Galbraith & Associates Inc and Emerich Kaspar, Architect at Standard Practice to talk Mid-Rise. 

Mid-Rise is not often talked about and extremely hard to build in an ever expanding metropolis like Toronto. As construction costs rise and NIMBYism delays projects, more and more developers are forced to go high-rise to make their projects viable. 

Will we see more mid-rise in our residential communities? 

Today we are sitting down with Gregg Lintern, the Chief Planner of the City of Toronto - more specifically, the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division, City of Toronto. 

This was a great discussion that took us from Bill 108 to Laneway Homes and of course a couple Jane Jacobs mentions.

We talk about Toronto Winters and how they can be made more bearable with smart city planning (hello awnings!) and a slew of other awesome journeys that Gregg took us on!

This week Matt and Ara chat with Janie Romoff, General Manager of Parks, Forestry and Recreation for the City of Toronto since 2014.

She’s held various senior positions with the Province of Ontario, and cities such as London Ontario and Burnaby BC.

Janie oversees the services of the Division, which includes community recreation, parks, horticulture and forestry programs, park and open space planning, capital development and environmental initiatives. Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation is the largest of its kind in Canada.

We discuss Risk Based Play in Toronto's parks as well as a few other hot button items like the early removal of basketball nets in parks and why some parks don't have swings! 

This week Matt and Ara chat with Taya Cook, the Director of Development at Urban Capital, overseeing residential developments across Canada.

Taya is in the midst of launching a new project in Toronto called “Reina Condos”, which is described as “Condominiums designed by women. Developed by women. Built for everyone.”

You're going to want to take a deep listen to this one, folks. We learned a ton about what Taya and her team are up to.

But more importantly, we had an open and honest discussion about women in Real Estate and what we can all do to make this a much more inclusive space. 

This week we chat with James Yurichuk, a former CFL linebacker who's created an amazing movement: The Wuxly Movement!

Creating cruelty free, uber warm clothing for Canadians by Canadians! Well, they're in the US too. 

This is also the very first laneway office we've seen. A trend that I'm sure will continue as property owners look to maximize their property's value. 

A truly amazing Canadian company! Go get it, James!!!