It’s home renovation season, and many of your clients will be tackling home improvement projects with the hope of helping sell their homes soon, while others will be planning for future sales. It’s important for them to understand the value a home inspection can...
Toronto’s real estate market posted an impressive culmination to its spring market rally, with a few notably positive indicators from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board’s (TRREB) May data:Â The average price up 3.7 per cent since last month, though...
ITSO held a meeting open to all the leaders of real estate boards and associations in Ontario on May 19 to discuss how to increase access to MLS data for Ontario realtors. This meeting was long-overdue, and ITSO was honoured to host the meeting attended by 140 people...
In my last column, we talked about how to filter potential candidates by posting a very specific application process, reviewing resumes and conducting a quick 15-minute interview to rule possible candidates out. After you’ve been through all of these filtering...
Water licensing became mandatory in B.C. in March of 2022. Under the Water Sustainability Act  (WSA), any individual, business or organization that plans to use surface or groundwater for non-domestic purposes, including irrigation, industrial, commercial or municipal...
The Ontario Landlord Tenant Board (LTB or Tribunal) has long had a reputation for being unfair and inefficient. Unfortunately, according to a new report from Ontario’s ombudsman, the LTB has gotten worse in many operational and service areas. In the middle of a...
