The Canadian Real Estate Investor

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 developers need. With presale prices down 13% from peak and a record 7,243 condo units cancelled in 2025, the feasibility math is under serious pressure. The episode also covers the $343 billion public infrastructure pipeline competing for the same labour and materials, a construction workforce that needs 85,000 additional workers by 2032, and tariff volatility that the cost guide explicitly doesn't account for. City-by-city comparisons across Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and more.
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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 Nick tackle one of the hardest decisions facing Canadian homeowners and real estate investors: should you hold on, rent the property out, or sell at a loss? They examine real examples from the GTA, pre-construction deals, power-of-sale transactions and struggling flips before laying out a practical framework for making the decision without letting fear, ego or sunk costs take over.
You’ll learn:• The difference between a forced seller and a scared seller• Why your monthly “bleed rate” matters more than the paper loss• How to calculate the true cost of continuing to hold• Alternatives to selling, including refinancing, renting and adding units• The legal risks of walking away from a pre-construction purchase• Why Canadian mortgages generally don’t allow you to simply walk away• How taxes and capital losses may affect the decision• Warning signs that negative cash flow is damaging your personal finances• The one question every underwater investor should ask: “Would I buy this property today?”Selling at a loss doesn’t automatically mean you failed. Sometimes protecting your credit, liquidity and ability to invest again is the smartest move you can make.
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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 developers more than falling prices, which input broke first: land, construction costs, rates, or sales velocity, and what still makes sense to build when almost nothing pencils.
With starts near zero since 2023, the completions that should land in 2027–2029 aren't coming. Jake walks through the math, the industry's sudden rush into purpose-built rental after 30 years of ignoring it, whether the investor-driven condo model is paused or finished, and what he'd tell an investor weighing pre-construction today.
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Brandon Sage of Landlord Property Management joins us to discuss everything you need to know about owning and managing property and tenants.
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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, what to do if you can't afford your renewal, where prices are headed, the best cash-flow cities, whether to incorporate your rentals, the new Airbnb rules by province, and how to save six figures on the principal residence exemption. Plus two rapid-fire bonuses: rent vs. buy, and the new 30-year amortization. No filler... just the answers.
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