by Sohini Bhattacharya | Jul 7, 2020 | Featured, News, Profiles
For three decades, rural Nova Scotians watched as every year an average of 1,300 young people, aged 20-29, left for urban hubs in Central and Western Canada, in search of better lives and prospects. “Over the years you watch the post office close and the schools...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | May 11, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
When Joyce Paron, Canadian president of Exit Realty Corp. International, joined the company 23 years ago, the real estate market was coming off a recession. Exit Realty was a year into its Canadian operations when founder Steve Morris invited Paron to join the...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | Jan 8, 2020 | Featured, News, Profiles
Around U.S. Thanksgiving, 1979, Walter Schneider and Frank Polzler, co-founders of Re/Max Integra Group of companies, had a steep hill to climb. They were in Denver negotiating the rights for their new real estate franchise in Canada. Like many entrepreneurs, the odds...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | Nov 25, 2019 | Featured, Profiles
Some people believe in stock markets, some people believe in wealth management, but Stephen Wong – founder, chairman and broker at Living Realty in Toronto – believes in real estate. He didn’t know much about Toronto’s stock market or other forms of investing when his...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | Nov 5, 2019 | Featured, News
What Century 21 Canada is calling “the largest custom real estate platform build via contract in modern history” was launched at the end of September. Jack Miller, CTO of Century 21 Canada and president and CTO, T3 Sixty, says that while there have been many real...