by Susan Doran | Jan 26, 2023 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Unrealistic expectations can cause anxiety, it’s said. If so, there must be a whole lot of anxious buyers and sellers out there. The industry is currently teeming with agents’ tales of unmotivated sellers refusing to budge on impossible prices and...
by Susan Doran | Jan 16, 2023 | News
Toronto media have jumped on the news from real estate data analysis firm Urbanation Inc. that a record number of new condo units will be completed in the city and surrounding suburbs this year. Urbanation puts the figure for anticipated new condominium unit...
by Susan Doran | Dec 12, 2022 | News
QUICK HITS Realtors in Canada are increasingly failing to show up to scheduled house showing appointments without notice. The rise in “ghosting” has been attributed partly to the explosion of new agents with little experience or training. Realtor...
by Susan Doran | Dec 6, 2022 | Advice for Agents
Kids will be kids, including when their parents bring them along to showings and open houses. Alberta realtor Michael Montgomery recalls one toddler scrawling all over a freshly-painted wall with coloured markers. This resulted in “a difficult conversation with...
by Susan Doran | Nov 23, 2022 | Featured
Several years back, an ousted leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia was memorably quoted as saying that the organization’s decision-makers are “like praying mantises – they eat their leaders.” B.C. realtor Trevor Bolin, leader of the party since 2019,...
