by Yvonne Dick | Apr 5, 2016 | Guest Columns
Back in the mid-1960s, people imagined that homes of the future would be much different by 2016. The total automation of housework would have made ours a life of leisure. Things home buyers thought would be standard by now included things like dishwashing robots, a...
by Don Kottick | Mar 30, 2016 | Featured, Guest Columns
When you are serious about a career in real estate and want to find a brokerage that aligns with your career aspirations, selecting the “right” brokerage is critical to your success. A fallacy exists that higher commissions should be your ultimate goal, but agent...
by Gilleen Witkowski | Mar 24, 2016 | Featured, Guest Columns
You’re juggling phone calls, emails, coffee meetings, showings and a long list of requirements and preferences for a client who’s itching to move. Then you find out that their family includes a dog, or they are thinking of getting one sometime soon. This is a major...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 23, 2016 | Featured, Guest Columns
In a Canadian market with more than 100,000 Realtors, competition is fierce. And it’s no secret that real estate salespeople have less than stellar reputations. Despite that fact that business is proceeding as usual in the relatively strong 2016 real estate market,...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 24, 2016 | Featured, Guest Columns, News
The Canadian housing market and where it is headed has been the subject of heated debate among investors and Canadians in general for several years now. With constant cranes going up in Toronto and Vancouver and rock bottom interest rates, it appears as if it shows no...
by Ross Wilson | Feb 23, 2016 | Featured, Guest Columns
What do you do? It’s a common inquiry. You could say you’re a human being that lives, loves and grows, or a human being that subsists and struggles for survival. However, to elicit such an esoteric response isn’t the usual reason for such an innocuous inquiry. From a...