by Neil Sharma | Sep 21, 2015 | Featured, News
The long-awaited Competition Tribunal hearing, The Commissioner of Competition v. The Toronto Real Estate Board, will continue today after Chief Justice Paul Crampton dismissed TREB’s motion that he recuse himself from the proceedings. TREB’s lawyers had requested he...
by Neil Sharma | Sep 3, 2015 | Technology
Moving to a new, unfamiliar city poses many difficulties, but a new online resource called Navut uses a complex matchmaking algorithm to introduce movers to local real estate professionals and is being touted as a way for the latter to increase clientele. Navut Inc....
by Neil Sharma | Jul 7, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
Zia Abbas has managed to conflate his realty savoir-faire with an indomitable work ethic to reach professional heights few salespeople could ever dream of. The 46-year-old Abbas was a multi-award winning Re/Max agent and in June he became president of Realty Point, a...
by Neil Sharma | Apr 10, 2015 | Technology
iSign Media Co. of Richmond Hill, Ont. has invented a five-watt, weather and waterproof smart antenna that emits signals to nearby smartphones, alerting them of the properties that are for sale nearby. The antenna is placed on the inside of an upper floor window of a...
by Neil Sharma | Mar 2, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
Nothing lasts forever. That tired cliché aptly describes the real estate industry, specifically its decades-old business model that many insiders decry as arcane and deleterious to the industry’s future viability. However, it isn’t all doom and gloom for...
