by Suze Cumming | Mar 4, 2021 | Columnists, Featured
At the start of each negotiation designation course that I teach, I ask the learners, “What is your biggest challenge right now?” and the answer from the majority of people in the past two weeks has been, “How do I help my buyer know what price to offer in multiples?”...
by Shaneka Shaw Taylor | Mar 3, 2021 | Featured, Legal Issues
The design of MLS listings strongly encourage real estate agents and their sellers to share as much information about a property as possible, including the measurements of each room and overall size of the property. By and large, the inclusion of property size...
by Mike Montague | Mar 2, 2021 | Featured, Guest Columns
We’ve become a technology-dependent society. High-speed broadband internet access, which allows us to move larger and larger amounts of data back and forth, is a requirement of a population increasingly dependent on smartphones, watches, TVs, laptops and tablets to...
by Susan Doran | Mar 1, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
Marie-Yvonne Paint’s background story is like something you’d see on the Netflix series Selling Sunset. Except she’s not selling real estate in glitzy Los Angeles, but rather in the wealthiest neighbourhoods of Montreal. At only 4′11″, Paint, described in a newspaper...
by Ted Greenhough | Feb 26, 2021 | Featured
I’ve seen some elaborate pre-listing packages; fancy-bound booklets full of colourful charts and graphs, lists of awards and so on. Impressive! I guess that’s the idea. To impress. But isn’t that what the listing presentation is for? What if you’ve got the greatest...
by James R.G. Cook | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured, Legal Issues
The owners of a cottage in Muskoka, Ont. recently obtained judgment against the local township for $361,875, resulting from the township’s failure to properly inspect construction after a building permit had been issued: Breen v. The Corporation of the Township of...