by REM Editorial Team | Feb 8, 2010 | Featured
By Nigel Burnham An English estate agency has come under fire for failing to mention that an “exceptional detached fisherman’s cottage” it is selling also has spectacular views – of one of the biggest nuclear power stations in Europe. Westbeach, a three-bedroom...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 5, 2010 | Advice for Agents, Featured
By Jon Cheplak So much thought and energy is invested in how to recruit experienced agents – a basic prospecting call, postcards, visiting open house, cross-sale calls, transaction acknowledgment calls and much, much more. The fatal assumption most brokers make is...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 3, 2010 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Guest Columns
By John Polito It’s early in 2010 and real estate managers are once again dusting off that old chestnut, “You can’t be a success without goals.” They must be right because all the best-selling self-help book authors are singing the same song. There is no other way, so...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 1, 2010 | Featured, Technology
By Petra Jones Imagine pointing your mobile phone camera at a property for sale and being able to call up all the relevant listing information. This is one of the exciting possibilities offered by augmented reality technology. Let’s look at how this new technology is...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 29, 2010 | Featured
The world’s tallest building was unveiled recently in Dubai, to an estimated crowd of more than 400,000, in a crescendo of fireworks, lasers and fountain displays. The official height of the tower, called Burj Khalifa, was announced as 828 metres (2,716.5 ft)....
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 27, 2010 | Featured, Profiles
By Susan Doran Broker Andrew Wood was showing clients Steve Pinney and his wife Judy a century home in the scenic rolling countryside of Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region last fall, when Steve suddenly fell to the floor and turned blue. Had Wood not been there, the next...
