by Emma Caplan-Fisher | Feb 20, 2024 | Advice for Agents, News
Canada’s primary rental market is facing major challenges, as large demand continues to outpace available supply. This has weakened affordability and caused record-low rental vacancy rates, as indicated in Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)’s latest Rental...
by Emma Caplan-Fisher | Feb 20, 2024 | Community, Good Works
Last November, 115 Royal LePage professionals from across Canada signed up for the company’s Challenge for Shelter trekking fundraiser, this time in Ecuador. The biannual fundraiser supports local women’s shelters and national domestic violence prevention programs....
by Emma Caplan-Fisher | Feb 5, 2024 | Legal Issues, News
Last week, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) sent industry board and association leadership information on the recent class-action suit, McFall v. CREA et al., filed on January 18. The suit names CREA along with several board, association and corporate...
by Emma Caplan-Fisher | Jan 30, 2024 | Advice for Agents, Announcements, Books
Being a successful agent in a competitive market takes work — there’s no question you must deliver value to your clients and stand out among the crowd. A simple way to do this is to become better informed about the area and product you’re selling. And if that happens...
by Emma Caplan-Fisher | Jan 22, 2024 | News
Concerns about exacerbating the country’s housing affordability crisis have resulted in a petition on Change.org addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Honourable Sean Fraser, minister of housing. A volunteer group, led by Hossein Maleki, president and CEO of...