by Susan Doran | Jan 17, 2024 | News
Like many people, Paul Brooks fled the city for greener pastures during the pandemic. He jokes that now he has a nice rural view to admire while agonizing over why on earth he made the move in the first place. Living amid the forested hills of Hockley Valley north of...
by Susan Doran | Dec 1, 2023 | Boards & Associations, News
Voting at a special general meeting (SGM) on November 29 that could have axed the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA)’s contentious pending insurance plan for all realtors in the province wound up determining that the program will go ahead as planned. It’s a blow —...
by Susan Doran | Nov 14, 2023 | News, Sales & Marketing
Getting a handle on where the current market is headed is like trying to nail jelly to a wall – pretty much impossible. There’s a barometer that you may not have factored in though: open houses. Open houses reflect market conditions, although not always in the ways we...
by Susan Doran | Nov 10, 2023 | Legal Issues, News
Lawyer Adam Chisholm has plunged into the blowup around the polarizing mandatory insurance plan that the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) is set to put in place for all 96,000 realtors in the province at the beginning of 2024. Chisholm, a partner with McMillan...
by Susan Doran | Nov 3, 2023 | Advice for Agents, News, Sales & Marketing
Business and real estate lawyer Matt Mulholland had never given much thought to the marketing headaches realtors face. That is until he began getting panicked calls from agents and brokers who’d been contacted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications...
