by Natalka Falcomer | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured, Legal Issues
Imagine this scenario: you and your client diligently review your listing agreement. You add in an expiration date of six months and no over-hold. A few days later your realize that the six month expiration date was a mistake; you both agreed via email that the...
by Al Maitland | Apr 25, 2017 | Columnists, Featured
Red hot real estate markets in the Greater Toronto Area, Vancouver and other Canadian centres are creating new opportunities not only for homeowners, but also for owners of condominium investment properties. And, by extension, we’re also seeing a strong source of new...
by Marty Douglas | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured
Cards on the table. I was born in 1945, first licensed in real estate in British Columbia in 1970, qualified in the ’70s as a branch manager, as an agent or nominee as we were then called in the ’80s and I continue to be licensed under the current nomenclature as a...
by Jean Sorensen | Apr 21, 2017 | Featured, News
After more than a decade attempting to get to market, the 1,838-acre Foothills development at Lantzville, B.C. at the mid-point on Vancouver Island now has building lots ready to go. “We hope to start next month (May),” says Ben Hurlbutt, director of sales and...
by Diane Slawych | Apr 20, 2017 | Featured, Profiles
Twenty-first century developers are not the first to envision purpose-built live/work units. In the 1800s, Singapore had its own version, called the shophouse, typically a two or three storey building owned by one family who would operate a business on the ground...
by MarkWeisleder | Apr 19, 2017 | Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
A major issue arising in bidding wars is when a buyer regrets their purchase decision almost immediately afterwards. Or worse, when their lender appraisal says that they paid too much and will not lend the buyer enough to close the deal. Here are five lessons to learn...
