by Paul Abbott | Sep 8, 2025 | Guest Columns
Canada’s housing crisis has become a national policy priority, and for good reason. Affordability is at generational lows, rental markets are straining under record population growth, and homebuilding has slowed even as demand rises. Governments have responded with...
by Diana Faria | Sep 8, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns
Branch staff aren’t just the friendly faces your clients see when they first visit your office. They’re the air traffic controllers, directing people, paperwork, and problems to the correct avenues to be handled as quickly as possible. But if there ever was a...
by Daniel Foch | Sep 5, 2025 | Boards & Associations, Columnists
For much of this year, the Greater Toronto Area’s housing market appeared to be holding onto a fragile recovery. That narrative cracked in August. Sales clocked in at 5,211, slightly higher than last year, but on a seasonally adjusted basis, it was the first monthly...
by Suze Cumming | Sep 5, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Columnists
Suze Cumming, founder of The Nature of Real Estate and Canada’s Real Estate Negotiation guru, answers Realtors’ questions on the first Friday of the month about negotiation tactics and working through tricky situations. Have a question for Suze? Send her an email....
by Don Kottick | Aug 28, 2025 | Guest Columns
In real estate, we usually leave government advocacy to our industry associations, like the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) or the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). They are well-equipped to represent Realtors on the big policy issues that affect housing...
by Daniel Kreines | Aug 27, 2025 | Guest Columns
For over 65,000 people across British Columbia, manufactured home parks (commonly called mobile home parks or trailer parks) represent one of the last paths to affordable homeownership. In smaller and more rural communities, these home parks can account for as much...
