by Danny Kucharsky | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured, News
Calgary entered the new year with more real estate sales reps than last year, despite its weakening housing market. It may take awhile for the agent count to drop in the city, despite the precipitous drop in the price of oil and significant job losses in the Alberta...
by Danny Kucharsky | Oct 6, 2015 | Technology
When Charles Drouin looked at the mobile app landscape about five years ago, he noticed there was a problem when it came to the real estate industry: clients sometimes had more information than agents. “We said, ‘You know what, we need to make an app for the agents,’”...
by Danny Kucharsky | Sep 14, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
Ross Godsoe has just retired as CEO of the Realtors Association of Hamilton Burlington (RAHB) but that doesn’t mean his more than 40-year real estate career has come to an end. Godsoe, who left the association at the end of August after a 14-year stint, sees himself...
by Danny Kucharsky | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured, News
The shutdown of Zoocasa should come as no surprise because it was operating with a business model that was unsustainable, say top executives at Canada’s largest real estate brokerages. “We thought (the closure) was inevitable,” says Gurinder Sandhu, executive...
by Danny Kucharsky | Dec 17, 2014 | Featured, News
Citing misleading advertising, unfair competition and unenforceable guarantees, the Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards (QFREB) is seeking authorization to institute a class action against for-sale-by-owner company DuProprio. A January 8 court date has been set,...
