by Mario Toneguzzi | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured, News
A new study says flooding pushes down housing prices and reduces the number of homes for sale, while increasing the time it takes a home to sell. The report, Treading Water: Impact of Catastrophic Flooding on Canada’s Housing Market, says that over the past eight...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 23, 2022 | Featured, Good Works, Profiles
What does a 44-year real estate veteran do when she retires? Raise millions of dollars, that’s what! Royal LePage National Chairman Award winner Janet Ellerbeck had a successful, 44-year-long career in real estate. When she was ready to pass the real estate torch to...
by James R.G. Cook | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured, Legal Issues
Some Canadian provinces have introduced a foreign buyers’ tax in recent years to curb what is perceived as the impact of foreign speculators on over-heated real estate markets. The hefty amount of the tax may catch unprepared buyers by surprise if they are not aware...
by Richard Oyekunle | Feb 18, 2022 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Anyone who’s been in the real estate industry knows how overwhelming it can be for a brand-new agent. Before prepping for open houses and ordering magnets with your face on them, there are tools to learn, training sessions to attend and goals to set. Speaking from...
by Barry Lebow | Feb 17, 2022 | Columnists, Featured
In this video rant, veteran Realtor and long-time REM columnist Barry Lebow says the disrupters in the real estate industry are not coming from outside the industry, but within. He talks about the huge increase in the number of Realtors and the surge of part-timers in...
by Christopher Alexander | Feb 16, 2022 | Featured, Guest Columns
We can all agree that Ontario, and Canada, needs more homes. The supply shortage is at the root of an affordability crisis that threatens to derail one of our country’s key economic drivers and the futures of many Canadians who, even if they can afford an...
