by Gareth R. Jones | Sep 16, 2021 | Columnists, Featured
Imagine each province having one MLS operator Imagine being able to practice real estate effectively for the province that we are licensed in “Imagine all the people living for today” Imagine the hundreds of millions of dollars currently retained by boards and...
by Aiman Attar | Sep 13, 2021 | Columnists, Featured
The world of real estate did not shut down with each lockdown of the pandemic. If anything, the industry flourished. As we were forced to stay at home, many opted to upgrade their dwellings. As the demand for real estate increased, so did the workload. We have had an...
by Phil Soper | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured, Guest Columns
The people can be forgiven for viewing elections with indifference. Like a spouse’s obsession with binge watching old television shows (that weren’t great when new), the themes can seem dully repetitive. Yet for those in the real estate industry, the pandemic-fuelled,...
by Jeff Mowatt | Sep 3, 2021 | Advice for Agents, Columnists
Let’s be frank – if you work as a broker or sales rep, then your primary goal is to make money. Period. You may have secondary goals to serve the interests of your customers and employees and be a good corporate citizen, but your No. 1 priority is strictly return on...
by Kunal Sawhney | Sep 2, 2021 | Columnists
Opportunity cost is an important concept in the world of finance. Institutional investors that played a key role in the housing market growth in the U.S. and Canada understand the significance of “forgone benefit”. This class invests in different assets to derive...
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...
