by Jean Sorensen | Aug 17, 2015 | Featured, News
Royal LePage Real Estate Services’ acquisition of the 31-year-old independent Coast Realty Group of offices and property management business, with 150 agents in the central Vancouver Island area, was a matter of perfect timing. “The major reason was our ages,” says...
by Peggy Blair | Aug 14, 2015 | Featured
Oh those errant, missing letters. They can take the best-intentioned real estate listing and turn it into something completely different. This London interboard listing popped up in Ottawa a few weeks ago. The listing agent wanted to make sure to comply with the...
by MarkWeisleder | Aug 13, 2015 | Featured
There is an expression that good fences make good neighbours. One qualification. Only when the fence happens to be on the correct boundary line. Mark Weisleder presents five things to remember when it comes to boundary rights. MarkWeislederMark Weisleder is a senior...
by Yvonne Dick | Aug 12, 2015 | Featured
Real estate professionals in Canada have a variety of options for where they conduct their business. Some pay a franchise fee to have a desk of their own inside a branded office. Others strike out with their own franchise company as a broker/owner. Then there are the...
by Bruce Keith | Aug 11, 2015 | Featured
There is a definite progression of growth for everyone in the sales business. Let’s take a quick look at the evolution of a salesperson in real estate. Here’s the growth pattern: Stage 1: Buyer activity Almost everyone starts working with buyers. It’s an easy place...
by Jeff Grad and Richard Crenian | Aug 10, 2015 | Columnists, Featured
There is one rule to remember in commercial real estate whether you are a buyer and holder, or someone who makes money on the management side: financial value is judged on what can be made going forward, not what it was in the past. The trick is to identify this...
