by Cliff Campbell | Jun 17, 2021 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Concern regarding radon levels in houses has received renewed interest in the media lately because people are working from home and attending school virtually. This presents a perfect opportunity for you to offer value-added information on this important topic to your...
by Toby Welch | Jun 16, 2021 | Advice for Agents, Featured
It’s been a rough year and a half since COVID-19 hit, changing our lives forever. Taking care of clients is even more challenging. But before you can meet your client’s needs, you must take care of your own. Richelle Plumstead has been a real estate agent for two...
by Myles Shane | Jun 15, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
Penny Kander, a real estate agent with Realty Executives Alberta Elite in Red Deer, Alta., has been in the real estate business for more than 40 years and she thought she had seen everything. Then COVID-19 came along. But Kander, who has survived cancer twice, was...
by Ted Greenhough | Jun 14, 2021 | Featured
During my full-time real estate career, I was rarely asked for a reduction of my commission. There’s a good reason for this. Early on, when I was a relative newbie, I’ll admit that I caved and negotiated a reduced rate on a few occasions. I regretted it every single...
by Diane Slawych | Jun 11, 2021 | Featured
Long before Toronto became a city of condominiums, there was another kind of building boom taking place. It was the construction of residential apartment buildings – which in the 1950s and ’60s was something quite novel. Here’s something else you probably didn’t know....
by Chris Chopik | Jun 10, 2021 | Columnists, Featured
At this years’ Ontario Association of Architects annual conference, the opening plenary focused on valuing zero carbon emissions and net zero energy in buildings. Experts discussed at length the role of architecture and design in building and valuing low-emission...
