Scott McGillivray (born April 7, 1978) is a Canadian entrepreneur, investor, television host, author and educator.
He is currently in pre-production on the fourth season of his digital series and Canadian Screen Award nominee, Scott’s House Call.
In the half-hour format, McGillivray comes in to help homeowners with their existing properties, renovating them for a profitable rental unit.
In the full-hour format, he helps people buy homes and then renovate them to include a profitable rental unit.
In the 2016 pilot, for HGTV Canada, he helped owners choose a property to buy and renovate, to flip for a profit.
In the series order, for HGTV (USA), he comes on board as a partner to help renovate investment properties and flip them for profit.
[11] The show will be a 7-episode competition series, featuring 4 teams of contractor-designer duos advised by McGillivray and Baeumler, who will renovate cabin-by-cabin competing head-to-head.
[2] In Flipping the Block, McGillivray is a judge rating the renovation abilities of four couples competing to win money at auction in a home-flipping competition.
Scott McGillivray guest judges alongside Nicole Curtis, David Bromstad and host Josh Temple.
McGillivray has co-authored a number of real estate investing books with business partner Michael Sarracini.
In 2010, McGillivray started his own real estate education company called The Lifetime Wealth Academy, which was later renamed to Keyspire in 2013.