It is a fundamentally different business requiring different capital, more patience, and a clear-eyed view of market conditions that have shifted substantially from where they stood when many of these projects were envisioned.
I have to admit that I was surprised when David Eby’s office accepted our shot-in-the-dark invitation for the NDP Premier of British Columbia to join me on the Goodman Report podcast. Even then, I wasn’t ready for how open, funny, self-critical and transformed the premier seemed in our hour together.
Forty-three years selling apartment buildings teaches you one thing above all else: the market always has more surprises in store
Eric Carlson has a well-earned reputation as a blistering critic of the dumb, ideological interventions of government. He is also one of a handful of Vancouver development-industry heavyweights—someone who has been helping reshape the region for decades while building a diversified, integrated, international real estate and development empire.
Mark Goodman, Principal at Goodman Commercial Inc., is honoured to have been invited back to speak at the Western Canada Apartment Investment Conference.
Eric Carlson has a well-earned reputation as a blistering critic of the dumb, ideological interventions of government. He is also one of a handful of Vancouver development-industry heavyweights—someone who has been helping reshape the region for decades while building a diversified, integrated, international real estate and development empire.
Sorry Mayor Ken Sim, zero doesn't mean zero.
“Uncertainty” and “caution” defined 2025 in real estate.
Local politicians cry foul over provincial intervention, even as their own decisions continue to choke off any hope for progress
The next Goodman Report podcast, an interview with the unstoppable Nelson Skalbania, is one of the most entertaining – and absolutely the most fun – of any that we have done so far.