by Chris Chopik | Jan 14, 2020 | Columnists, Featured
As I look back at the lessons of my lifetime, I am grateful for the experience I have had, for the friends and family that are my community, and for the amazing opportunities that have been afforded me through curiosity, hard work and good fortune. In the last two...
by Jim Adair | Jan 13, 2020 | Featured, News
In a column published by the National Post in December, CREA CEO Michael Bourque wrote that government bears much of the blame for the housing market imbalance of rising prices and lagging supply. “A narrow focus on suppressing household debt has dominated the policy...
by Diane Slawych | Jan 10, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
If he hadn’t found work as a successful author, Victor Hugo might have carved out a career for himself as an interior designer. It seems the 19th century French novelist, who penned such celebrated works as Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, had a passion...
by David Greenspan | Jan 9, 2020 | Advice for Agents, Featured
So much focus is always spent on the New Year’s resolutions…about what you are going to fix about yourself in the New Year. Yet most people don’t think about the actual process to bringing it all to life, the micro activities you need to perform every day to...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | Jan 8, 2020 | Featured, News, Profiles
Around U.S. Thanksgiving, 1979, Walter Schneider and Frank Polzler, co-founders of Re/Max Integra Group of companies, had a steep hill to climb. They were in Denver negotiating the rights for their new real estate franchise in Canada. Like many entrepreneurs, the odds...
by Bob Aaron | Jan 7, 2020 | Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
How does an interested buyer know if a home’s basement apartment is legal? And what information about basement apartments must real estate agents provide to buyers? Mohamed came to my office last month with an agreement to purchase a two-unit house in Kitchener, Ont....
