by REM Editorial Team | Nov 30, 2020 | Guest Columns
The following was submitted to REM by the Real Estate Regulators of Canada. Whether they realize it or not, real estate professionals regularly engage in conversations about competencies. Every introduction to a new buyer or seller, every advertisement, the answer to...
by Chris Chopik | Nov 23, 2020 | Columnists
It is increasingly clear that housing is central to the story of climate change. Home is where impacts from catastrophic loss from changing weather patterns, including flood, wildfire and sea-level rise, are most acutely felt. On the flip side, houses are where we...
by Peter G Weeks | Nov 20, 2020 | Featured, Guest Columns
The home inspection industry has greatly evolved from what it was back in the ’70s and ’80s to what it is today. The need and desire for “the inspection” was created by the real estate industry itself. Back then, agents could be great at listing and selling a home but...
by William Molls | Nov 3, 2020 | Featured, Publisher's Page
Last month we printed and distributed the first issue of REM since April. Like so many small businesses in Canada, over the summer we had to quickly adapt to rapidly changing circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We decided to put our monthly magazine on...
by Deborah Levin | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured, Guest Columns
The Surrealtor is a high-profile drama series that’s coming soon to the SYFY channel. The premise? A real estate brokerage that sells haunted houses. Spoiler alert: these houses are not only renovated and staged, they are also subject to paranormal investigations,...
by Michel Friedman | Oct 20, 2020 | Featured, Guest Columns
As a manager, I have seen too many deals fall through because of home inspections. When I dug deeper into the story, I found that it was not because of the home inspection itself but because of how the results of the inspection were handled by the buyer agent. For...
