by Heino Molls | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured, Publisher's Page
In 2003, I celebrated 50 years of being in this country. I immigrated to Canada in 1953. I wrote about it and talked about it probably too much at times. I was so sincere in my gratitude to this country for letting me grow up here and experience Canada, I just...
by Diane Slawych | Jun 29, 2017 | Columnists, Featured, Profiles
Neighbours called it “that crazy house.” And its owner Truus Schroder wasn’t pleased to learn her children were sometimes ostracized – all because the home looked noticeably different from others on the street. Today “that crazy house”, located on the edge of the...
by Bob Aaron | Jun 28, 2017 | Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
The Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA), which represents 70,000 real estate agents and brokers in Ontario, has become involved in a public spat with the real estate industry regulator over the use of a controversial provision in purchase agreements known as an...
by Glenn McQueenie | Jun 27, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
I think it is pretty obvious for those of us in the real estate industry in the Greater Toronto Area that the game has changed here. Since April, the market has shifted. A great coach of mine, Dan Sullivan, once said, “Play the game with the cards you are dealt, not...
by Sue Styles | Jun 23, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
“Some days the best thing about my job is that the chair spins.” This is the quote that is on a card I am delivering to a new administrative assistant this afternoon. She just started two weeks ago for the No. 1 team in the brokerage and everyone is hoping that she...
by Ross Wilson | Jun 16, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
In this fourth part of the series on the hot topic of real estate fees, allow me to address the issue from a broader perspective. Nowadays, there seems to be growing public resistance to what was once our industry’s traditional fee structure, in the form of a trend...
