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

How is Toronto's Resale & Pre Construction Market Doing during COVID-19?

Mar 26th, 2020 35m 46s

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 ab

COVID-19: A Talk About How Real Estate is Reacting to This Pandemic

Mar 20th, 2020 1h 3m

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 firs

Innisfil: The City From the Future Coming to a Rural Community Near You!

Mar 17th, 2020 45m 53s

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

Peter Freed: Building houses in Markham to the King of King West

Mar 2nd, 2020 36m 53s

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 h

Liberty Village - From Dirt Roads to WeWork's Resurrection

Feb 18th, 2020 31m 23s

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.

Talking Building Mid-Rise with Sean Galbraith & Emerich Kaspar

Jan 27th, 2020 46m 5s

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-Ri

Chief Planner Gregg Lintern walks us through his vision of Toronto in the year 2041

Aug 1st, 2019 41m 30s

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 1

What's risk based play and what's the deal with the basketball nets?

Jul 12th, 2019 32m 21s

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

405 - Taya Cook Tells All About Reina Condos Developed/Designed by Woman, built for Everyone

Jul 2nd, 2019 22m 42s

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

404 - From the CFL to the runway, the story of the Wuxley brand!

Jun 24th, 2019 29m 4s

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 firs

Retail Insider's Craig Patterson drops some serious Toronto retail secrets!

Jun 11th, 2019 30m 35s

This week Matt and Ara talk with Craig Patterson. Craig's been studying the retail landscape for over 25yrs and seems to know everything about retail. Craigs drops some serious secrets about who's coming into the Toronto market and who's leavi

402 - We talk renovating homes, building new homes, and turning a single family home into a 5-plex

May 16th, 2019 38m 11s

In our second episode of season four we invited Brendan Charters, Founding Partner at Eurodale Homes to talk building, renovating and slowly changing the face of existing residential communities one 5 plex at a time.

urbanizeTHIS talks with OMB & Bill 108 w/Michael Collins Williams

May 7th, 2019 37m 59s

After a long hiatus Matt and Ara are back at it with season 4 of urbanizeTHIS! This week we talk with Mike Collins-Williams about the Ford Government's reinstatement of the OMB and the ins and outs of Bill 108 which aims to tackle affordability

309 - Dan Flomen talks us through the wild ride of Toronto Condos

May 15th, 2018 40m 41s

Mamourian and Slutsky chat with Dan Flomen who's lived through multiple real estate cycles, and is still alive to talk about it!

308 - Cannabis is Cannabis is Cannabis

May 7th, 2018 45m 6s

Slutsky and Mamourian are back on the podcast scene after a 3 month hiatus. This time we chat with Corey Herscu, owner of RNMKR PR. A firm that focuses on the Cannabis industry here in Canada. Corey's a media and technology commentator who has

307 - It's all about the Pop-Up shop, Baby!

Jan 15th, 2018 35m 24s

Pop ups. It's all about the Pop Ups. Big complicated commercial leases are painful enough to keep some would-be entrepreneurs out of the retail game. David King, General Managr at ThisOpenspace.com (let's call it the AirBnb of retail) has big p

306 - New Age Suite Design & Luxury

Jan 2nd, 2018 31m 33s

This week we chat with Neil Jonsohn, Principal - Creative at U31 Deign! Neil and his team have been designing luxury and large-scale residential projects for over 20years! We talk about what's new in luxury building and try to understand the ex

305 - Our Attempt At Explaining Blockchain

Dec 12th, 2017 37m 31s

Everyone's talking about it, right? So we decided to jump on the Bitcoin train and talk Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies. We do out best to stay focussed while our brains were exploding but we do jump around all over the place to try and help y

304 - Rail Deck Park is Toronto's Last Chance to be Great

Dec 8th, 2017 31m 42s

Mamourian & Slutsky chat with Claire Nelischer from Ryerson's City Building Institute. It's true, all the land we have is here. To expand this amazing city of ours. We're stuck with what we've got...or are we. An ambitious group of folks decide

303 - Fashion Tech Can Help Build Better & More Efficient Cities

Nov 28th, 2017 35m 22s

Slutsky & Mamourian chat with Amanda Cosco, founder of Electric Runway and Fashion Tech entrepreneur! We unpack a ton of info including how Fashion Tech can help build better Cities (thing big data), how retail is changing and how fashion tech

302 - Tim Hudak Talks About His New Job & Tells the Feds to Stay Out of Our Real Estate!

Nov 15th, 2017 29m 52s

Slutsky and Mamourian have a candid chat with new OREA (Ontario Real Estate Association) CEO Tim Hudak. You may know Tim as the former leader of the Provincial PC party but his mission is now help OREA evolve into the leading advocate of Realto

301 - The State of The Market by Mark McLean 25yr Real Estate Vet

Oct 14th, 2017 30m 32s

Welcome to Season 3 of urbanizeTHIS! The Toronto Real Estate market has been the talk of the World for a long time. Both Matt and I are in the trenches every day and sometimes we see that what's being reported in the media isn't always what we'

220 - Only a Fool Says Retail is Dead

Jul 31st, 2017 50m 28s

Alex Mazelow destroys the "Retail is dead" myth in our final episode of season 2! HIs company, The Carbon Collective has been thriving whist others are dying. We dig into WHY and HOW. Hint - it's not as easy as opening up next to a Starbucks an

219 - Not Your Average Mom & Pop Park

Jul 24th, 2017 39m 3s

Jake Tobin from ParkPeople.ca talks parks....and let me tell you, we ain't talking about your average park. We dig deeper into the urban parks of the future from the $25mm privately funded underpass park aka the bentway to the massive park path