by REM Editorial Team | Oct 6, 2010 | Featured
An Alliston, Ont. man who traded in real estate without being registered and defrauded potential investors in the Barrie area of almost $90,000 was sentenced to 15 months in jail and ordered to pay restitution. Terry D. Graham, who was wanted on a bench warrant after...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 4, 2010 | Featured, News, Profiles
By Kathy Bevan Almost 10 years ago, Halifax-Dartmouth Realtors Michael and Lisa Doyle left the world of traditional real estate behind and became the first in Canada to purchase franchise rights to Reno, Nevada-based Assist-2-Sell. The concept was simple: offer...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 1, 2010 | Featured
The Canadian Real Estate Association’s Board of Directors has reached a deal with the Competition Bureau that would end the Bureau’s challenge to CREA’s MLS rules. The deal would allow agents to list a property on MLS for a flat fee. Vendors would be free to choose...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 29, 2010 | Advice for Agents, Featured
By Marty Douglas The Wizard of Oz, Ozzie Jurock, once said, “You’re in business for yourself, not by yourself.” I know he said that ‘cause I wrote it down in my little red book where it occupies two lines of a 95-page journal of observations I’ve been keeping, largely...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, Technology
By Petra Jones Google Street View enables house hunters to look beyond the listings and view property at ground level or take a stroll around the neighbourhood. Following the Canadian debut of Street View last October, more than 150 cities and towns across Canada were...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 22, 2010 | Featured
By Jim Adair You would think that launching a new hotel concept in the middle of a recession, using a brand not well-known in Canada, would be a risk that most real estate investors would avoid. But for Al Gulamani of Bayview Hospitality Group, the opportunity to...
