by Jim Adair | Jan 27, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
At a time when government relations skills are increasingly important for organized real estate, Jason Stephen’s background is serving him well. Shortly after earning his degree in history and political science, Stephen left his home in Saint John, N.B. to spend a...
by Jim Adair | Jan 13, 2020 | Featured, News
In a column published by the National Post in December, CREA CEO Michael Bourque wrote that government bears much of the blame for the housing market imbalance of rising prices and lagging supply. “A narrow focus on suppressing household debt has dominated the policy...
by Jim Adair | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured, News
The evolution of real estate marketing online. New brokerage models, from discount to flat fee to cloud-based. Buyer brokerage. Part-time versus full-time agents. FINTRAC. FSBOs. Real estate regulation and education. The future of organized real estate. All of the...
by Jim Adair | Jun 3, 2019 | Boards & Associations, Featured
When Toronto Real Estate Board CEO John DiMichele was working as a manager for Royal LePage in the late 1990s, the board had about 17,000 members. “Now, our numbers are staggering,” says DiMichele. “There are over 54,000 members, and if you bring in our partner...
by Jim Adair | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured
“Nobody knows what the potential is for self storage in Canada,” says Reade DeCurtins, managing principal at Bluebird Self Storage. But he says the country is underserved with Class-A self-storage facilities and “there’s a tremendous runway available for Canadian...
