by REM Editorial Team | Sep 2, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Legal Issues
By Hannon Bell I’ve been a licensed real estate agent since 1995. Recently along with some colleagues I was brought up to date on the new guidelines on the government’s enhanced Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) policies. FINTRAC...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 29, 2014 | Featured
Story and Photos By Diane Slawych Why demolish a building when you can move it instead? That seems to be the guiding philosophy in New Zealand, where it’s not unusual to find a wide variety of structures that have been physically relocated from one place to another....
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 27, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Diane Slawych Two years after he moved his historic Victoria, B.C. house to a new neighbourhood – a sight that attracted hundreds of onlookers – managing broker Harry Newton says he learned one thing. “You can save any building, no matter how big.” Whether it’s...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 25, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Susan Doran Want to hear something that may convince you that gazillionaire business tycoons aren’t so different than the rest of us? How about this: Miles Nadal, one of the highest-paid CEOs in advertising, views himself as an underdog. “I come from humble...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 22, 2014 | Featured
Even Great Britain can’t boast a ruler living like a king just yet, given the Queen’s remarkable longevity on the throne (or cursed persistence if you happen to be someone like …Prince Charles, for example). However, if YOU wanted to live like a king – specifically...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 20, 2014 | Featured, News
By Jean Sorensen A bitter dispute between owners in a resort lodge in the Resort Municipality of Whistler, B.C. is demonstrating some of the pitfalls that can happen when multiple owners in a building disagree and the deal goes the way of the ski slope. Phase I and...
