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...
by Todd Shyiak | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured, Guest Columns
The fear of the unknown can be unsettling. Zillow coming to Canada has unsettled some. But the fact is, Zillow isn’t the unknown and we have no reason to be fearful. Zillow has been in the U.S. for 12 years and the sky hasn’t fallen for Realtors there – quite the...
