by Diane Slawych | Aug 11, 2023 | News
The latest start-up to enter the fractional real estate market in Canada is already gaining fans, even though it’s still a few months shy of officially opening for business. Toronto-based Fractionum was among the top three finalists at the pitch competition at...
by Diane Slawych | Sep 19, 2022 | Featured, News
“It was one of the longest conversations I ever had with someone I didn’t know,” says Charlene Williams, broker at Real Estate Homeward in Toronto, referring to the first time she spoke with Sheena Thompson. A broker with Keller Williams Legacies Realty, Thompson was...
by Diane Slawych | Apr 5, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
Being a real estate sales rep with young kids can be a challenge at the best of times. The pandemic has made it even more challenging for some agents. When the world shut down two years ago at the start of the pandemic, Natalie Costello, sales rep with North Group at...
by Diane Slawych | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
These days when people want to buy or sell property, they usually call a real estate sales rep. But in Quebec’s Gatineau Hills in the 1950s, many people would contact a Second World War veteran named Duncan Macintyre. Though he wasn’t a Realtor (things weren’t as...
by Diane Slawych | Jan 12, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
It was a day in May 2019 that Melanie Chiu, broker at Engel & Völkers Toronto Uptown, won’t easily forget. She was at the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto with her four-year-old son Liam, who was receiving treatment for a type of cancer called acute lymphocytic...