by REM Editorial Team | Aug 8, 2011 | Featured, Guest Columns
By Frank Kirschner Scores of economic prognosticators are continually trying to determine when the U.S market will level off. Many investors are asking, will there ever be a better time to buy? No doubt about it, there’s never been a better time to buy a U.S....
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 20, 2011 | Featured, Letters to the Editor
I read with great interest the two Letters to the Editor in REM (July) by Mike Montague and Joseph Panchyshyn and I thought the letters were passionate and to the point. Mike seems to feel that he has the support of and speaks for the 100,000 members of CREA, and that...
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 15, 2011 | Publisher's Page
This July 1 many of us celebrated Canada Day by watching Peter Mansbridge on the CBC in Ottawa with great pride. Many of us are also watching the rest of the world with hope and in many cases fear. Most of us have concerns about trouble spots of social unrest in the...
by REM Editorial Team | Jun 15, 2011 | Letters to the Editor
Melanie Aitken, commissioner of Canada’s Competition Bureau, is once again setting up our industry for a fresh round of public stonings. Once more she is making generalized, insinuating and misleading statements through the national news, which are contradictory to...
by REM Editorial Team | Jun 13, 2011 | Featured, Publisher's Page
By Heino Molls Every so often I hear discussions about limiting the number of real estate licenses issued by the provinces. The argument put forward is that there are too many real estate sales reps in the field competing for a limited amount of business, making the...
by REM Editorial Team | May 25, 2011 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns
By Ari Lahdekorpi Over the years I have watched real estate practitioners come and go. Some have built amazing careers that seem to have no limit to their growth, and others never find any type of appreciable trajectory. The difference between those who reach the...
