by Diane Slawych | Apr 5, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
Being a real estate sales rep with young kids can be a challenge at the best of times. The pandemic has made it even more challenging for some agents. When the world shut down two years ago at the start of the pandemic, Natalie Costello, sales rep with North Group at...
by Diane Slawych | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
These days when people want to buy or sell property, they usually call a real estate sales rep. But in Quebec’s Gatineau Hills in the 1950s, many people would contact a Second World War veteran named Duncan Macintyre. Though he wasn’t a Realtor (things weren’t as...
by Connie Adair | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
It’s never too early to start planning to market a property, even if it’s not coming to MLS for months. That’s especially true when selling properties in northern climes in the middle of winter. Martinus Geleynse, senior vice president sales with Sotheby’s...
by Connie Adair | Mar 18, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
Multiple sellers and buyers, a lot of planning and many moving parts – the scenario may be common in industrial/commercial deals but not so much in the residential world. However, real estate agent Karen Willison of Royal LePage Locations North in Collingwood, Ont....
by Connie Adair | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
It wasn’t until she was in her 20s that Marcia Alderson found out her mother Yvonne was a badass, and that, to her surprise, racism exists in Canada. The broker with Keleher + Co., Royal LePage RCR Realty in Collingwood, Ont., who calls herself a “beige” child of a...
by Susan Doran | Mar 9, 2022 | Featured, Profiles
When REM last wrote about April Del Monte almost two years ago, the former Bachelor Canada contestant, a sales rep with boutique brokerage Stomp Realty in Toronto, had just rolled out her first book, How to Thrive as a Real Estate Agent. It became an Amazon top seller...