by Phil Soper | Dec 10, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns, News
Affordability is quietly improving in this country. Home prices have flattened in many parts of Canada, and in our most expensive markets, they have even pulled back. Mortgage rates have stabilized to a level that supports healthy activity. And, after years of...
by David Greenspan | Dec 10, 2025 | Columnists
Another year is coming to an end, and once again, thousands of Realtors across the country are bracing for January like it’s some kind of magical reset button. It isn’t. If 2025 taught us anything, it’s this: the market will not save you. Organized real estate won’t...
by Suze Cumming | Dec 5, 2025 | Columnists
The best alternative to a negotiated agreement — or BATNA — was introduced in the 1981 book Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Project and has since become a cornerstone of negotiation training in corporate, trade, and real...
by Marty Douglas | Dec 3, 2025 | Boards & Associations, Columnists
Trevor Koot, BC Real Estate Association CEO (and, full disclosure, my boss’s boss’s boss), recently wrote in REM, “I’m sure every one of the roughly 150,000 Realtors across Canada can point to a happenstance, coincidence, or fluke that contributed to where they are...
by Brandon Reay | Nov 28, 2025 | Boards & Associations, Columnists
The MLS has become one of the most influential institutions in Canadian real estate, but its governance models have not kept pace with the pressures and expectations of today’s market. For decades, the MLS served as the neutral foundation for cooperation among...
by Cameron Levitt | Nov 21, 2025 | Guest Columns
Canada’s Budget 2025 has arrived with big promises of economic transformation and renewal. While housing is explicitly positioned as one of the government’s four “generational investment pillars,” the reality is more sobering. Despite the...
