TORONTO REAL ESTATE IN THE NEWS
An exploration of the issues and headlines that made up Toronto's real estate market over the past few years and in the years to come.
Collection by Shawn Venasse
POLITICO
Google Is Building a City of the Future in Toronto. Would Anyone Want to Live There?
20+ min · · It could be the coolest new neighborhood on the planet—or a peek into the Orwellian metropolis that knows everything you did last night. · Shared by 159, including Alexandra Wong, Dominik Grolimund, Stephan Woodtli, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Stuart Chalmers, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Oliver Ewinger, Harald Ille, Ron McIntyre, Charlie Oliver, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Shawn Venasse, Bernhard Huessy, Moritz A. Mihatsch, Stephen C Sanders
The Atlantic
Google’s Guinea-Pig City
20+ min · · Will Toronto turn its residents into Alphabet’s experiment? The answer has implications for cities everywhere. · Shared by 61, including 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Dominik Grolimund, Shawn Venasse, Chris Messina, mdy
The Guardian
Google wants to run cities without being elected. Don't let it
6 min · · A new initiative will see Alphabet – the parent company of Google – take charge of redeveloping a waterfront district in Toronto. Here’s why that’s troubling · Shared by 41, including Erich Schwarz, Thomas Power, Kim Dik, Kim Schläpfer, Shawn Venasse, Justin Cranshaw, Andrzej Jóźwik
The Guardian
'Surveillance capitalism': critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project
3 min · · Project with Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy and data harvesting · Shared by 40, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Thomas Power, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Shawn Venasse
500px
Real estate photography: The essential guide for beginners
6 min · · Real estate photography is a rewarding and challenging genre of photography—dive into it with this essential guide for beginners. · Shared by 38, including Shawn Venasse
The New York Times
The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed
7 min · · Geoffrey Hinton, a scientist at the heart of artificial intelligence’s recent breakthroughs, has helped make Toronto a leading research location. · Shared by 38, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Shawn Venasse, Thomas Power, Howard Getson, Brian T. Edwards, Christian Fauteux, Marco Unternaehrer
Architectural Digest
Inside Rapper Drake's Manor House in Hometown Toronto
1 min · · Superstar Drake goes home to Toronto to build his eye-popping pleasure dome · Shared by 33, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Shawn Venasse, Mathew Ingram, Olly Wainwright, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social
The Wall Street Journal
Western Cities Want to Slow Flood of Chinese Home Buying. Nothing Works.
1 min · · Governments from Vancouver to Sydney to Toronto have imposed taxes and restrictions to tamp down the real-estate bubbles caused by unrelenting overseas demand. They’ve found the money simply moves elsewhere, and often returns. · Shared by 31, including Thomas Wong, Tom Connor, M.G. Siegler, Ward Plunet, Shawn Venasse, Thomas Power
The Intercept
Google’s “Smart City of Surveillance” Faces New Resistance in Toronto
8 min · · Local organizers in Toronto have united to push Google out of their government. · Shared by 22, including Shawn Venasse, Charles Baldwin
The Wall Street Journal
Pressure on New York City Commercial Real Estate Worries Investors
1 min · · Signs of stress in NYC’s commercial properties are fueling investor bets that trouble in the nation’s largest real-estate market could spread pain nationwide. · Shared by 20, including Christopher Mims 🤌, LARRY ELKAN, Shawn Venasse, Antonio Vieira Santos
TechCrunch
Toronto is poised to become the next great producer of tech startups
13+ min · · I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Toronto and learned there’s more to this city than Drake calling it home and the recent successes of their professional sports teams. We made one… · Shared by 17, including Shawn Venasse
Bloomberg
Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
4 min · · Toronto’s tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging New York in a ranking of “talent markets.” · Shared by 15, including Shawn Venasse, Lucas Foster
oneweirdglobe.com
8 Things I Wish I Knew About Toronto Before Arriving
5 min · · While Toronto may not be as exotic as southeast Asia or some Eastern European countries, the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) has plenty of reasons to check it o · Shared by 11, including Shawn Venasse
CBC
Why Toronto won by losing its bid for Amazon's new headquarters
6 min · · Toronto’s bid for Amazon’s HQ2 fell short, but some say the city may be better off without the American giant. · Shared by 8, including Shawn Venasse, Hrag
financialpost.com
Oxford makes $2.5 billion urban-living bet on skyscrapers in midtown Toronto
1 min · · Oxford Properties Group Inc. is proposing to turn an area of midtown Toronto that’s mostly parking lots into a mix of apartments, offices and retail space, a major bet that demand for dense urban… · Shared by 7, including FP Investing, Shawn Venasse
The Globe and Mail
Toronto man shares $1-million prize for real estate price predictions
2 min · · Zillow Group sponsors data science competition to improve its Zestimates product · Shared by 6, including Rich Barton, Shawn Venasse