by Diane Slawych | Aug 3, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
Their home was a one-room hut made of wattle and daub with a thatch roof. At night, they slept on a dirt floor or, if they were lucky, a coarse bag made of jute stuffed with leaves from the sugar cane plant. This was a typical home for many slaves in the Caribbean...
by Don Procter | Aug 2, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
Prior to designing the Re/Max Core office near downtown Ottawa about 18 months ago, the four owners took a close look at the new breed of agent they expected to hire: millennials. What they found was surprising. Millennials, they deduced, want what their predecessors...
by Natalka Falcomer | Jul 29, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Real estate investing is not easy. I know because I’m trying to do it and because my clients (real estate agents and investors) tell me horror stories. My experience searching for my “first” makes it obvious to me that investing in real estate is like starting your...
by Awane Jones | Jul 28, 2016 | Featured, Technology
With the rise of digital technology, real estate developers that are taking advantage of virtual reality software and off-plan sales have started to take off in major cities like Miami, Los Angeles and Dubai. With so many foreign buyers looking to buy off-plan for...
by Neil Sharma | Jul 27, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
Sometimes it’s better to be a big fish in a small pond. Just ask Orvil Cairns. On the cusp of celebrating his 40th anniversary as a sales agent in Portage la Prairie, Man., the town celebrated the 74-year-old’s venerated career in June with a comedy roast-style...
by Martin Rumack | Jul 26, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Legal Issues
At its essence, an assignment of an Agreement of Purchase and Sale – informally known as “flipping a home” – is a simple concept: A buyer of a new home allows someone else to take over the purchase contract, which allows that person to buy the home. More specifically,...
