by Andrew Fogliato | Jul 15, 2025 | Advice for Agents, News, Sales & Marketing
Ten years ago today, I launched a small marketing agency to help real estate agents get more clients. I didn’t have a master plan. I had just been fired from a job, and bills were due. I was in talks with another company that was more “industry-adjacent” than in the...
by Connie Adair | Jul 11, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Profiles
(photo: Elli Davis) When administrative demands began taking her away from the most important part of her business – her clients – Elli Davis knew it was time to take action. Davis, sales representative and senior vice-president of sales at Sotheby’s...
by David Greenspan | Jul 8, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Columnists
The market is quiet right now. For many in real estate, this summer has felt slower than expected – listings sitting, buyers hesitating, and an overwhelming sense of “holding.” And if we are being honest, we may not have hit the bottom yet. What we are seeing is not...
by Chris Mac Neil | Jul 7, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns, News
Seller-financed deals—specifically vendor take-back (VTB) mortgages—aren’t just surviving in Canadian real estate. They’re booming. According to CoStar Canada, VTB transaction volume surged from $767 million in 2021 to $3.5 billion by the end of 2023, marking a nearly...
by Suze Cumming | Jul 4, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Columnists
Suze Cumming, founder of The Nature of Real Estate and Canada’s Real Estate Negotiation guru, answers Realtors’ questions on the first Friday of the month about negotiation tactics and working through tricky situations. Have a question for Suze? Send her an email. An...
by Natasha Plotnikov | Jul 3, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Boards & Associations, News
As Canada continues to grapple with housing challenges, real estate professionals and housing providers are increasingly being drawn into conversations about how we build, where we build, and for whom, working to find housing that is financially more accessible to...
