In December 2022, the BC Assessment Authority announced that province-wide, homeowners should expect a five per cent to 15 per cent increase in their 2022 property tax assessment values. On that same day, BC Assessment mailed out advance notice letters to property...
Recruiting isn’t a one-time event. As a broker, you don’t sit down with a realtor, wow them with a presentation about how wonderful your brokerage is, and then BAM! They join you. Recruiting is a process. Think of it like the difference between dating and...
The market is falling. Prices are on the decline. Sales are slowing. Everyone is focusing on what happens to a realtor’s business, and the challenge for brokers/owners has doubled. Not only does your brokerage lose per-transaction revenues due to fewer overall...
I am unsure who to give credit to for coining the phrase “change is the only constant in life,” but as soon as I accepted the expression as a positive notion as opposed to a hindrance, I was all the better for it. When considering today’s real estate...
Governments and agencies are inviting the real estate sector into the conversation about the housing crisis across Canada. In order to work with or adjacent to this sector, we need to become familiar with their terminology. We bring our knowledge of housing to the...
When it comes to lobbying for change at Queen’s Park, nothing happens by chance. It takes years of hard work, smart strategy, excellent research, and many resources. The return on the investment that good government relations can deliver is huge, and the last...
