Nick Hill is a host of the Canadian Real Estate Investor podcast. He’s a mortgage agent, Real Estate investor, and works in brokerage and lending services through their company, LandBank.In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠  ⁠Nick’s First Steps in Real Estate
•⁠  ⁠Canadian Real Estate Investor Podcast
•⁠  ⁠Specifics of the Canadian Real Estate Market
•⁠  ⁠Interest Rates Environment
•⁠  ⁠2024-2025 Opportunities for Real Estate Investors
•⁠  ⁠Resources


Useful links:
https://www.instagram.com/mybuddynick/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-hill-337a8762/?originalSubdomain=ca

Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jessica Galley and you're listening to Working Capital. The Real. Estate Podcast. My guest today is Nick Hill, an investor real estate professional mortgage broker, and one of the hosts of the Canadian Real Estate Investor Podcast Nick.

How's it going?

Nick (39s): Very well, longtime listener. Honored to be, honored to be a, a guest. So yeah, happy to be here. Happy to, happy to chat. And man, the bio makes me sound pretty good, I guess. Eh,

Jesse (50s): It's not bad, eh, I don't know. Was it the, was it the mic or the content?

Nick (55s): Maybe the guy saying it. I'm not sure.

Jesse (58s): Oh, that's, you're too, you're too nice. So, Nick for, for those that don't know, maybe you could give a little bit of a, of a background for, for basically how you got into real estate, and we could talk a little bit more about kind of social media and, and the, the podcast that you guys have. But why don't we start with a little bit of a, a background on yourself?

Nick (1m 18s): Yeah, appreciate that. I don't know how far I'll go back here. I've, I've kind of always just been attracted to the entrepreneurial side of things. Started a lot of businesses, kind of my late teens, early twenties, originally wanted to be a lawyer. Started talking to lawyers when I was in university. I was watching a lot of suits at the time and realized that that was nothing like reality. So quickly. Finished up my degree, went into construction engineering management, which kind of put my career trajectory into the construction side of things.

So I worked on condos as a project coordinator. I worked at Sanofi Past, which is a big pharma company in, in north Toronto on the CapEx team. Did that for a few years and kind of wanted to get more in the business side of things. So I transferred out of the construction side of things, making a really good salary, and decided to get into commercial real estate where, you know, Jesse, there is no such thing as a salary.

So did that for, for a while as a junior associate at Ellington, which kind of little offshoot of of Collier, some of the top guys there, went and started their own shop. Did that for a while. Great experience, great exposure. Got into the business development world kind of within the tenant fit out space in, in commercial real estate. And from there, just kind of coasted along for, for several years when the pandemic hit, I actually just before the pandemic hit, I decided I was gonna finally dip my toes in and start trying to build my own personal real estate portfolio.

So started buying small cap residential properties, couple duplexes here and ther