by REM Editorial Team | Jan 15, 2019 | Boards & Associations, Featured
Bill Harrington, general counsel at CREA, recently announced that he will retire in April. “April will be the 26th anniversary of my employment with CREA. It will also represent the 40th anniversary of when I started practising law,” wrote Harrington. “After having...
by Jeff Stern | Jan 14, 2019 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Another real estate agent has died, thanks to the vulnerability of working alone in an empty house. The 33-year-old Annapolis agent was alone in an empty model home when he met a violent end. Someone came in, murdered him right there in his workplace, and left. No one...
by Michael Lam | Jan 11, 2019 | Advice for Agents, Featured
The real estate industry is widely known as a “dog eat dog world”, yet thousands of new agents line up every year unprepared. Ninety per cent fail short of their 25th month after taking that leap, where the top 10 per cent of agents take 90 per cent market share of...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 10, 2019 | Boards & Associations, Featured
The Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards (QFREB) says it’s pleased that eliminating the problems caused by pyrrhotite damage to concrete will be the focus of new research funded by the provincial and federal governments. Many Quebec households, primarily in the...
by TRES Labs | Jan 9, 2019 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Marshall McLuhan was a famous Canadian researcher who developed critical theories on “hot” and “cool” media technologies in the early ’60s. He coined the phrase, “the medium is the message”, which is a theory that states a medium embeds itself in a message and...
by Brandon Hindle | Jan 7, 2019 | Advice for Agents, Featured
If you’re thinking about becoming a real estate agent, or you’re a new agent, you will realize quickly that real estate isn’t the “easy money” most people think it is. There are a lot of reasons for this, from the sheer amount of competition in the industry to the bad...
