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Top RealEstate Journalists in Canada (2025)

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Carolyn Ireland

RealEstate journalist at The Globe and Mail, Canada
Canada
RealEstate
Architecture
Business

As The Globe and Mail’s foremost real estate analyst, Ireland specializes in:

  • Market Forecasting: Blends historical data with current trends to predict regional price movements
  • Design Economics: Examines how architectural choices impact property valuations
  • Policy Impacts: Tracks legislation affecting housing supply and affordability

Pitching Insights

  • Localized Data Wins: Successful pitches reference hyperlocal trends within Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe region
  • Avoid Commercial Focus: Residential markets dominate her coverage portfolio

Recent work includes groundbreaking analysis of modular construction’s role in solving Canada’s housing crisis, cited by multiple provincial housing ministers.

Douglas Todd

RealEstate journalist at Vancouver Sun, Canada
Canada
RealEstate
Politics
Culture

Douglas Todd is an award-winning columnist for the Vancouver Sun, where he analyzes housing policy, migration trends, and their cultural impacts. With over 60 journalism honors including two Templeton Awards, he brings ethical rigor to Canada’s most pressing urban challenges.

Core Coverage Areas

  • Housing Markets: Tracks foreign investment patterns, affordability initiatives, and regulatory frameworks shaping Canadian real estate
  • Demographic Shifts: Examines how immigration policies and citizenship trends reshape community dynamics
  • Urban Development: Critiques high-density housing projects through lenses of livability and infrastructure capacity

Achievement Highlights

  • Only Canadian journalist named Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year twice
  • 2024 National Housing Foundation Prize for commentary on intergenerational equity
  • Authored influential policy anthology Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia (Ronsdale Press)

Pitching Preferences

  • Seeking: Data-rich analyses of housing supply chains, case studies of regulatory innovation, underreported migration consequences
  • Avoid: Celebrity real estate profiles, architectural design features, individual property listings

Eric McCarthy

RealEstate journalist at The Journal Pioneer (Summerside), Canada
Canada
RealEstate
Business
Community

Eric McCarthy has spent decades as a trusted voice in Prince Edward Island journalism, currently contributing to The Journal Pioneer and SaltWire Network. His reporting focuses on:

  • Real Estate & Development: Tracking housing markets, zoning policies, and infrastructure projects shaping PEI’s towns.
  • Municipal Governance: Translating council decisions into community impacts through accessible analysis.

Pitching Insights

  • Prioritize data-driven local stories over national trends.
  • Emphasize human stories tied to policy changes.

Evan Duggan

RealEstate journalist at Vancouver Sun, Canada
Canada
RealEstate
Business
Tech

Evan Duggan is a Vancouver-based journalist specializing in commercial real estate, corporate strategy, and tech-driven economic trends. With a career spanning regional market analysis to national industry forecasts, his work for the Vancouver Sun and RENX combines rigorous data analysis with stakeholder interviews.

Pitching Priorities

  • Commercial Real Estate: Focus on office/industrial leasing trends, municipal tax policies, and infrastructure investments.
  • Tech Labor Markets: Pitch stories about talent migration, wage benchmarks, or educational partnerships driving regional growth.
  • Corporate Expansions: Highlight large-scale facility investments with verifiable job creation metrics or sustainability commitments.

Avoid These Angles

  • Residential housing market fluctuations
  • Startup fundraising rounds without revenue milestones
  • Opinion-driven pieces on urban development

Garry Marr

RealEstate journalist at CoStar News, Canada
Canada
RealEstate
Business
Finance

Garry Marr is CoStar News' chief Canadian correspondent specializing in commercial real estate and economic policy impacts on property markets. With 30+ years of reporting experience, he's become the definitive voice on:

  • REIT Strategy: Tracked $18B in merger activity since 2022
  • Central Bank Policy: 42 articles analyzing rate decisions' market impacts
  • Cross-Border Transactions: Chronicled 23 major US-Canada deals since 2023

Pitching Priorities

  • Commercial property valuation models post-rate changes
  • Tariff impacts on industrial lease structures
  • REIT portfolio rebalancing strategies
"Our recurring services now account for over 70% of earnings, providing our company with balance and stability through all market cycles" - Brian Rosen, Colliers Canada CEO

Achievements: 2023 SABEW Canada Outstanding Achievement Award, 2019 National Newspaper Award Finalist, 18 years as National Post real estate editor

Joanne Lee-Young

RealEstate journalist at The Vancouver Sun, Canada
Canada
RealEstate
Politics
Business

Joanne Lee-Young is a staff reporter at The Vancouver Sun specializing in the intersection of municipal policy, real estate development, and economic trends. With over two decades of experience—including early career posts at The Asian Wall Street Journal—she brings global perspective to hyperlocal stories about housing, infrastructure, and community governance.

Key Coverage Areas

  • **Housing Policy**: From BC Building Code revisions to development cost charges
  • **Municipal Finance**: Tracking how cities allocate funds for projects like community centres
  • **Economic Resilience**: Analyzing tariff impacts on local industries

Avoid These Angles

  • Federal election politics
  • Celebrity real estate transactions
  • International trade agreements
“Archiving is also the history of ordinary people.” – Joanne Lee-Young, quoting historian Henry Yu in a 2025 piece on Vancouver’s Chinatown archives

**Pitch Tip**: Ground proposals in specific Vancouver neighborhoods (e.g., Marpole, Burnaby) and provide access to city staff or small-scale developers. Lee-Young prioritizes stories that reveal how policies materialize in streetscapes and household budgets.

Mario Toneguzzi

RealEstate journalist at Retail Insider, Canada
Canada
RealEstate
Business
Retail!

With 40+ years documenting Canada's business landscape, Mario Toneguzzi has become the definitive voice on commercial real estate and retail sector trends. The 2024 RETHINK Retail Global Expert primarily writes for Retail Insider while contributing to national outlets like the Globe and Mail.

Key Coverage Areas

  • Commercial Property Markets: Tracks office/retail space utilization patterns and development projects
  • Retail Innovation: Analyzes Canadian brands adapting to e-commerce challenges
  • Economic Indicators: Connects regional policy changes to national business impacts

Pitching Preferences

  • Data-driven stories with StatsCan/CREA metrics
  • Executive-level access to retail/real estate leadership
  • Alberta-focused angles in national narratives
"The best stories emerge where concrete numbers meet human ingenuity." - 2024 Address to CARE Conference

Recipient of 21 journalism awards including the 2023 CREA Media Excellence Lifetime Achievement honor. His prescient analysis of Calgary's office tower oversupply (2016) and pandemic retail recovery disparities (2022) established new industry benchmarks for predictive business reporting.

Michael Robar

RealEstate journalist at The Guardian (Charlottetown), Canada
Canada
RealEstate
Business
Community!

Michael Robar is The Guardian (Charlottetown)’s foremost analyst of Atlantic Canada’s evolving property markets, with particular expertise in rural-urban migration patterns and community-led development initiatives. His 15-year tenure has produced award-winning investigations into housing affordability, commercial infrastructure gaps, and sustainable land use policies.

Pitching Priorities

  • Data-Rich Local Insights: Robar prioritizes stories grounded in unreleased municipal datasets or hyperlocal economic indicators, particularly those challenging provincial growth narratives
  • Human-Centered Development: Successful pitches highlight innovative approaches to preserving community character amid expansion, such as Charlottetown’s heritage-aware zoning amendments
  • Avoid Speculative Angles: He routinely declines coverage of metaverse real estate ventures or cryptocurrency-based property schemes, focusing on tangible housing solutions
“The true measure of development isn’t in square footage, but in maintained community bonds.” – Robar’s closing argument in 2022’s “Building Beyond Foundations” series
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