by REM Editorial Team | Jan 17, 2011 | Featured, Technology
By Susan Doran If you specialize in condo and townhouse sales, your life just got a whole lot easier. Brokers and agents know that the documents required in a condo or townhouse sale can stack up and be time consuming to manage. This documentation, referred to by such...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 14, 2011 | Featured, Guest Columns
By Mary LaMeres & Lyle Martin In a recent guest column in REM (November 2010), broker Ari Lahdekorpi wrote in praise of commission-based compensation. The author commented that “any flat fee or a la carte type of formula removes some aspect of motivation or...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 12, 2011 | Featured
By Susan Doran Singer/songwriter/illustrator/radio host Laura Fernandez admits she is so creatively driven that she’s “almost afraid not to live life to the fullest.” What she clearly isn’t afraid of is change – she’s re-invented herself more times than Madonna. Her...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 10, 2011 | Advice for Agents, Featured, News
By Jean Sorensen As municipalities across Canada move more towards increasing housing density on land once zoned for single-family homes, real estate agents are being challenged with a barrage of conditions related to secondary living quarters. The danger comes, says...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 7, 2011 | Featured
Happy New Year! I recently asked our sales team, “What question do you get asked the most?” They all knew the answer, as do you. The question most often asked, by the public and other sales reps, is “What’s the market going to do?” The trouble started when I asked...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 5, 2011 | Featured, Legal Issues, News
An appeal by Fraser Beach, who unsuccessfully took legal action against the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) after it suspended his access to the MLS database in 2007, has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. TREB shut down Beach’s MLS access in May...
