by Todd Shyiak | Mar 28, 2025 | Guest Columns
As we navigate early 2025, many are wondering how economic and political turbulence—most notably the uncertainty surrounding new U.S. tariffs—will continue to impact the real estate market. If the mood feels familiar, it’s because we’ve been here before. Much like the...
by Todd Shyiak | Mar 27, 2023 | Columnists, Guest Columns
“It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.” ― Warren E. Buffett For many realtors in Canada, the many years-long strong market conditions had some believing the tide would never go out. Now that it has...
by Todd Shyiak | Dec 14, 2021 | Columnists, Featured
The recent Liberal election promise to ban blind bidding was an appeal to Canadians frustrated with increasingly unaffordable home prices and angered by a lack of buyer-side transparency. At a time when most buyers were forced to enter bidding wars, in many cases...
by Todd Shyiak | Dec 2, 2021 | Columnists, Featured
In 2016, the B.C. provincial government of the day, responding to numerous ethical violations in the real estate industry, created the Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate. In 2017, the Superintendent banned dual agency in the province. Many jurisdictions...
by Todd Shyiak | Nov 9, 2021 | Columnists, Featured
“The Great Resignation” is a phenomenon across the country that some experts are saying will see up to 40 per cent of employees thinking of leaving their jobs in the next year. Millennials, front-line workers, managers and even some senior-level executives are looking...
