by REM Editorial Team | Oct 3, 2014 | Featured, Technology
By Amanda Ross Recruiting is the most important thing to your business…yet it’s the one thing that most brokers put off until it’s too late. Social media is often overlooked by brokerages as a recruiting and retaining tool because of the unknown factor....
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 1, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Featured
By Marty Douglas After this column, 12 issues more. One year to get it all out, to swallow the emetic, to achieve catharsis, to settle scores, to apologize, to be at peace with the decision. Yikes – sounds like a eulogy. Actually, it was intended as a lead-in to the...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 29, 2014 | Featured
By Kelly Putter When you hear the name Sotheby’s don’t be embarrassed if your mind automatically conjures up images of caviar, luxury automobiles and champagne flutes of free-flowing Dom Perignon. But that would only represent a small and clichéd side of the Sotheby’s...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 26, 2014 | Featured
Being able to visit friends and neighbours is a simple pleasure, but not one that can be enjoyed by everyone. Barriers such as stairs at entrances, narrow doorways and hallways, and bathrooms on upper or lower levels can exclude people with disabilities and seniors...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 24, 2014 | Featured
Not long ago, some of the major real estate brokerages in Canada would not hire women, except in clerical positions. Now, women constitute about half of agents with the percentage growing. Almost all are in residential sales, which is far easier to break into than...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 22, 2014 | Featured
By Jim Adair Since the introduction of the MLS system, real estate professionals have understood the value of co-operating with their competitors. In Ontario’s Bay of Quinte region, a group of municipalities, land developers, home builders and the country’s largest...
