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Move Smartly: The Podcast

The Move Smartly podcast invites you into data-driven conversations about issues impacting residential real estate in Toronto, across Canada and beyond. Join editor and host Urmi Desai, analyst and broker John Pasalis and other experts as we unpack real estate through a variety of timely market updates, lively discussions and insightful interviews. Here to help you make more informed decisions, whether you are a home buyer, seller, owner or renter, and as a resident and voter — because real estate

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27:10

How Can We Move if Our Condo Isn’t Selling? + Are...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2025/01/24

Today’s episode is our monthly ‘The Situation’ consumer Q/A segment - Urmi once again asks John to respond to the detailed questions you send in about the real estate decisions you are making as you navigate through the Toronto area housing market. Today, we hear from a growing family needing more room - do they keep trying to sell the small investment condo they own or sell the bigger one they’re living in? Then, how much more in repairs do you spend when you rent your condo out? Finally, are

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56:20

Why Are Interest Rates Staying High? + The Market...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2025/01/17

Each month, show co-host John Pasalis presents his latest data and top stories on Toronto area real estate in conversation with fellow Realosophy agents, Gus Papaioannou and Davin McMahon, and our Move Smartly mortgage expert, David Larock - and you, our viewers, who join the conversation in our live chat hosted by Move Smartly Editor Urmi Desai to make this is one of our liveliest segments! Set-up a meeting with John Pasalis and his agents at Realosophy to discuss your own real estate questions

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50:01

Review of 2024, What’s Next for 2025 + Impact of...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2025/01/10

It’s our first roundtable of the year with my co-host John Pasalis in Toronto and Steve Saretsky in Vancouver. This month, John and Steve discuss how the market performed last year and what we can expect in 2025. Plus, when will the preconstruction market slowdown result in price drops and how will the incoming U.S. President Trump’s threats against the Canadian economy and new Conservative government in Canada later this year and impact housing? Today’s Show Links: John Pasalis - “Is Canada

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01:15:54

Mixed Market, Mixed Signals - What’s Ahead for 2025? ...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/12/13

Each month, show co-host John Pasalis presents his latest data and top stories on Toronto area real estate in conversation with fellow Realosophy agents, Gus Papaioannou and Davin McMahon, and our Move Smartly mortgage expert, David Larock - and you, our viewers, who join the conversation in our live chat hosted by Move Smartly Editor Urmi Desai to make this is one of our liveliest segments! Set-up a meeting with John Pasalis and his agents at Realosophy to discuss your own real estate questions

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45:29

Mixed Market Conditions + Should Large Companies Buy...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/12/06

It’s December and time for our last monthly Toronto and Vancouver real estate roundtable of the calendar year with my co-host John Pasalis in Toronto and Steve Saretsky in Vancouver. This week, John and Steve explain why a jump up in YOY sales numbers obscures the reality of a sluggish market with some segments performing better than other and just how Vancouver and Toronto have come to top the list of the most expensive 25 cities in the US & Canada, topping LA, San Francisco and New York. We

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01:01:32

How Today's Working Generations are Propping Up Older...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/12/03

In this week’s episode, John and Urmi talk to Paul Kershaw, policy professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Population and Public Health, and Founder of Generation Squeeze, a think tank that researches and advocates for today’s working age generations. Today, we’ll dig into what Generation Squeeze thinks Canada needs to change about its housing policy and other programs to ensure more fairness across generations. Link’s for Today’s Show: Email Paul

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55:47

Reviving an Old Idea to Solve Modern Housing...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/11/26

In this episode, we’re diving into a timeless economic solution that’s gaining new attention in today’s housing debates: the Land Value Tax (LVT). Unlike traditional property taxes, which tax both land and the structures on it, a Land Value Tax focuses solely on the land. This means property owners aren’t penalized for making improvements, like building more housing—a crucial distinction in the context of today’s housing crisis. We’ll explore the origins of this idea, tracing back to economists

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59:07

Why Are Toronto Home Sales Picking-Up? + Why Interest...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/11/19

Each month, show co-host John Pasalis presents his latest data and top stories on Toronto area real estate in conversation with fellow Realosophy agents, Gus Papaioannou and Davin McMahon, and our Move Smartly mortgage expert, David Larock - and you, our viewers, who join the conversation in our live chat hosted by Move Smartly Editor Urmi Desai to make this is one of our liveliest segments! Set-up a meeting with John Pasalis and his agents at Realosophy to discuss your own real estate questions

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53:51

Home Sales Up, New Construction Stays Down — Toronto...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/11/12

It’s November Roundtable time! Note: This show was recorded before the results of the US election were reported - more on that next time This week, John and Steve discuss whether their respective real estate markets in Toronto and Vancouver are picking up as sales increase and inventory comes down and how immigration cuts and calls to cut GST and development charges would impact sales and home prices. Contact Us Follow Steve on X-Twitter @SteveSaretsky; Email at: steve@stevesaretsky.com Follow John

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01:01:33

How Fees and Taxes on Building Developers are Driving...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/11/05

In this week’s episode, John and Urmi talk to Matt Young, Founder, President and CEO of Republic a Greater Toronto Area home building company and founder of the CantWin, the Coalition Against New Home Taxes, a campaign to urge governments to reduce the fees and taxes charged to builders. Matt explains why he feels that of all costs facing buildings reducing taxes is the easiest way to make homes more affordable at a time when demand has really fallen for new housing. Link’s for Today’s Show:

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38:33

I'm Upsizing - Should I Keep My Current Home as a...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/10/29

Our episode today is our monthly ‘The Situation’ consumer Q/A! Urmi once again asks John to respond to the detailed questions you send in about the real estate decisions you are making as you navigate through the Toronto area housing market. Today, we hear from an upsizer wondering if they should hang onto their first home as an investment, a soon-to-be retiree who has a new freehold townhome in Southeast Ontario worth a lot less then they bought it for, and a would-be home buyer wondering how much

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52:00

What New Research Says About How Investors Impact...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/10/22

This week our episode is another session of “Move Smartly Ideas” - our deeper dive into housing economic and policy issues. Today, we are going to talk to John about how his own research into how investors impact the housing market as he completes his own doctoral degree on the same. Today's show links: A Sticky Ending: Lessons Learned from Toronto’s 2017 Real Estate Bubble: https://www.movesmartly.com/lessons-learned-from-toronto-2017-real-estate-bubble Contact Us John Pasalis, President and

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01:00:39

Interest Rate Cuts Suddenly Not As Certain + When...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/10/15

Each month, show co-host John Pasalis presents his latest data and top stories on Toronto area real estate in conversation with fellow Realosophy agents, Gus Papaioannou and Davin McMahon, and our Move Smartly mortgage expert, David Larock - and you, our viewers, who join the conversation in our live chat hosted by Move Smartly Editor Urmi Desai to make this is one of our liveliest segments! Set-up a meeting with John Pasalis and his agents at Realosophy to discuss your own real estate questions

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48:19

Bull or Bear? How Big Mortgage Moves and More Will...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/10/08

It’s October Roundtable Rumble time! In a preview of their big bull vs bear real estate debate in Toronto this week, John and Steve explain how the prospect of lower interest rates, big mortgage moves by the federal government and other campaigning politicians will impact a sluggish real estate market. And as usual, we go through the latest stats and explain flat market conditions in Toronto & Vancouver Contact Us Follow Steve on X-Twitter @SteveSaretsky; Email at: steve@stevesaretsky.com Follow

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33:47

Should We Sell Before We Buy? + Do I Have to Pay Tax...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/10/01

Today’s episode is our monthly ‘The Situation’ consumer Q/A segment - Urmi once again asks John to respond to the detailed questions you send in about the real estate decisions you are making as you navigate through the Toronto area housing market. Today, we hear from a would-be upsizer wondering if they should buy before they sell, a condo rental owner who wonders if they will have to pay tax if they move in themselves and a frustrated young buyer wonders how this generation will ever caught up

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50:07

Canada's Big Mortgage Moves - How Will They Impact...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/09/24

As the federal Liberal government makes some major mortgage rule changes this week to help first-time buyers and and others being left behind in Canada’s housing affordability crisis, my colleague and co-host, John Pasalis and I discuss the impact of these moves in an occasional series we call “Move Smartly Ideas” - our chance to take a deeper dive into housing economic and policy issues. Today's show links: Finance Canada - Official Announcement - The Boldest Mortgage Reforms in Decades:

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55:27

Different Segments Performing Differently in Slow...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/09/18

Each month, show co-host John Pasalis presents his latest data and top stories on Toronto area real estate in conversation with fellow Realosophy agents, Gus Papaioannou and Davin McMahon, and our Move Smartly mortgage expert, David Larock - and you, our viewers, who join the conversation in our live chat hosted by Move Smartly Editor Urmi Desai to make this is one of our liveliest segments! Set-up a meeting with John Pasalis and his agents at Realosophy to discuss your own real estate questions

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50:58

Will Interest Rate Cut Impact Market Stalemate? +...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/09/10

School’s back in session and so are we - it’s time for our September Roundtable with Urmi, John and Steve! John and Steve take us through the latest stats and explain flat market conditions in Toronto & Vancouver and how falling interest rates and a softening economy will impact markets. We also discuss softening rental markets across Canada as the drop in foreign students is felt and revisit why demand has been the overlooked factor in our housing crisis. Also: What is the underlying factor

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41:25

What Europe Can Teach Canada About Missing Middle...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/08/27

In today’s ‘Move Smartly Ideas’ episode, my colleague and co-host John Pasalis have our longer-form chat about big ideas in real estate history, policy and economics. Today, John takes us on a tour of sunny Athens and tells us about the history of its housing and what we can learn from it as many make the case for more lower-rise high-density buildings in Toronto and other Canadian cities. Today's show links: John Instagram Video - “Athens: A City of 6-Storey Polikatoikies”:

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52:21

Are Buyers Getting More Active? + Lower Interest...

Move Smartly: The Podcast ·

2024/08/20

Each month, show co-host John Pasalis presents his latest data and top stories on Toronto area real estate in conversation with fellow Realosophy agents, Gus Papaioannou and Davin McMahon, and our Move Smartly mortgage expert, David Larock - and you, our viewers, who join the conversation in our live chat hosted by Move Smartly Editor Urmi Desai to make this is one of our liveliest segments! Set-up a meeting with John Pasalis and his agents at Realosophy to discuss your own real estate questions

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