by Tina Plett | Dec 24, 2018 | Columnists, Featured
The silvery-haired woman stepped into the utility room of her new house to receive instruction on how to maintain the furnace and various mechanical doodads. She’d been recently widowed and had spent the last weeks and months searching for a home for this new chapter...
by Connie Adair | Dec 21, 2018 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Some people will only buy a house if they get to walk through it several times. But there are other purchasers who will buy a house sight unseen. It’s not unusual, and it’s not new. Broker Jerry Hammond of Hammond International Properties in North York, Ont., says his...
by Michael Krisa | Dec 20, 2018 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Do you want to learn how to get a steady stream of clients and closings from your YouTube channel? Good, because I’m here to tell you it works! I have been using my YouTube channel to grow my business like crazy. It’s extremely effective and I just don’t see a lot of...
by Diane Slawych | Dec 19, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
It seems that property owners in Hanoi, Vietnam would go to any length (or height) to reduce their taxes. When the city government decided, centuries ago, to base the tax rate according to the width of a property’s street-facing facade (the wider the home, the more...
by Natalka Falcomer | Dec 18, 2018 | Columnists, Featured
Toronto is making waves. Not because of rising condo prices, and not because of our affiliation with Drake. We are making waves because we’re one of the best places for tech companies to set up shop. How could this be, given that we are an expensive city? And what...
by Jim Adair | Dec 17, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Michael Bourque, CEO of the Canadian Real Estate Association, doesn’t like the term “organized real estate”. He says the staff at CREA’s Ottawa offices no longer use it, because they know he doesn’t like it. “You’ve got organized labour and organized crime and I don’t...
