by Jeff Stern | Oct 31, 2018 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Guest Columns
My clients were selling their house and had received an offer. Right away, I knew something was fishy. The offer itself was fine. It had the typical conditions that most offers have, including the condition that they would buy if financing went through. What was...
by Mario Toneguzzi | Oct 30, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured
Realtors from across Saskatchewan may be taking another shot at amalgamating all of the province’s real estate boards into one after a failed attempt a year ago. In September 2017, a vote to fold the current boards and provincial association and create one new entity...
by Mario Toneguzzi | Oct 29, 2018 | Featured, News
Realty One Group, an established U.S. real estate brand, is aiming to expand aggressively across Western Canada. Shami Sandhu, formerly broker at Re/Max River City in Edmonton, has secured the rights to Realty One Group of Western Canada and plans to expand the brand...
by David Greenspan | Oct 26, 2018 | Advice for Agents, Featured
The roller coaster of marketing ideas continues to take over the real estate industry. As we search for new ways to get business, it seems that the easy answer is to spend money on a technology-based tool – such as a new website, social media, chatbots or any type of...
by Joseph Richer | Oct 25, 2018 | Featured, Guest Columns
If you sit down and talk with a real estate salesperson who has been in the business for more than just a few years, they will likely tell you that both the industry and the marketplace in Ontario have changed considerably from when they entered the profession. The...
by Chris Seepe | Oct 24, 2018 | Featured
All private businesses across Canada, including residential landlords and real estate brokerages, will be impacted by the latest changes to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) beginning Nov. 1. PIPEDA is Canada’s federal private...