by REM Editorial Team | Aug 23, 2010 | Advice for Agents, Featured
By Lloyd R. Manning It’s a given that each year across the county, real estate offices waste many dollars because they fail to adequately control costs. Some, such as the agents’ commission splits, are fixed and perpetual, which management can do little about. Most...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 16, 2010 | Featured, News
A survey conducted by Royal LePage Real Estate Services says that people in Ontario and B. C. have misconceptions about how the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) affects real estate transactions. When respondents were asked to provide examples of comments heard from buyers...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 13, 2010 | Featured, News
Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC has signed a master franchise agreement with Demeure S.A. to expand the Coldwell Banker brand in France and into Monaco. With the addition of Monaco, the network now extends to 50 countries and territories worldwide. Led by Laurent...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 11, 2010 | Featured
Toronto’s Commerce Court, owned by the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, has received the 2010 Earth Award in the Office Park Category and the BOMA BESt Level 3 Certification from the Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater Toronto (BOMA)...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 9, 2010 | Featured, Profiles
By Katherine Fawcett As a promoter, salesman and announcer, Wilf Ray knows how to make his smooth voice heard. And for over 60 years, people have listened to what he’s had to say. In the 1940s, thousands of Vancouverites woke up to Ray, the morning disk jockey on CKMO...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 5, 2010 | Featured
An increasing number of homebuyers are looking for a property to accommodate more than one generation of their family, says a recent survey by Coldwell Banker Real Estate of its network of real estate professionals across Canada and the U.S. Thirty-seven per cent of...
