by Yousaf Iqbal | Mar 30, 2022 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Real estate teams got their start in the early 1990s, when agents realized that if they didn’t have an assistant, they were one. Since then, teams have grown to become the dominant form of organization for the most successful brokers and agents. But what makes a team...
by Yousaf Iqbal | Nov 11, 2021 | Featured, Technology
The pandemic compressed 10 years of technological adaptation into just months. After a year and a half of COVID-19, virtual tours have gone from fringe product to a mainstay of property marketing. Juwai IQI hosts more than 5,000 virtual tours on its portals, Juwai.com...
by Yousaf Iqbal | Aug 31, 2021 | Columnists
I have some data in front of me that compares today’s home prices in 21 global cities to those same cities’ prices before the COVID-19 pandemic. The numbers make clear that Canada’s rapidly rising home prices are no anomaly. In fact, in three out of four of the...
by Yousaf Iqbal | Jul 19, 2021 | Columnists
At 44 per cent, nearly half of Canadian real estate agents believe Canada is experiencing a residential real estate bubble. That’s according to the results of the recent Juwai IQI Property Survey and Index for Canada. In another shocker of a finding, only about half...
by Yousaf Iqbal | Jun 3, 2021 | Featured, Guest Columns
The experience in my offices in the Toronto area suggests that the housing boom is persuading many Canadians to become real estate agents. Eight of the 32 agents at IQI Canada, or almost one-third, previously worked in other industries. Two trainees are still studying...
