by REM Editorial Team | Dec 2, 2009 | Featured, News
By Jean Sorensen Cautious Vancouver developers are starting to dust off shelved projects that were downed by a lacklustre market during the past year, and nudge them forward into the rebounding real estate market, says Cameron McNeill, president of MAC Marketing...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 30, 2009 | Featured, News
By Kathy Bevan Stew Fettes is a man on a mission. The Saskatchewan sales rep is mad as heck about having to collect additional confidential information about his clients’ transactions, in order to comply with FINTRAC requirements. Now, he’s making it clear that he’s...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 26, 2009 | Boards & Associations, Featured
A new study commissioned by the Alberta Real Estate Association (AREA) offers guidelines for standards to clean up properties that were used for grow-ops. “Properties used as illegal drug operations pose long-term health and safety hazards, due to the presence of...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 23, 2009 | Boards & Associations, Featured, News
Ontario’s four largest real estate boards have signed an agreement to share real-time access to each others’ MLS listing information. The Connect project is a joint venture of the Toronto Real Estate Board, the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington, the London...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2009 | Featured, News
CREA has been successful in its efforts to have Realtor vs. Realtor, a Canadian real estate reality TV series, pulled from the air. CREA took issue with the unauthorized use of its Realtor trademark in the series’ title and threatened legal action if the program...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 18, 2009 | Featured
By Connie Adair As respected community leaders in a region impacted by severe economic decline, The Windsor-Essex County Real Estate Board, Greater Windsor Home Builders Association and Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to create a...