by Kim Rempel | Jun 12, 2020 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Profiles
A real estate team is only as good as its members, and brokers are constantly on the hunt for the best. The task of finding and recruiting those top agents can be a hit-and-miss process though, consuming time, energy and resources. When I first sat down with AJ Plant,...
by Connie Adair | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
Wayne Baguley dances to the beat of his own drummer. In fact the Realtor with Royal LePage RCR Realty in Orangeville, Ont. was once the drummer for Papa Grey, a 1970s pop/rock band. Before real estate, he was also a band manager. And lessons from those careers...
by Susan Doran | Jun 3, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
Jerry Bresser, a grandfather eight times over, has been coaching real estate agents across North America for a whopping half century. At the height of his success in the mid 1970s into the ’90s, he was top dog. He travelled to and from engagements constantly, bought a...
by Susan Doran | May 22, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
Century 21 Heritage House has had a 40-year run to date, but former general manager/partner Michael Slager says the brokerage almost got stuck at the starting line. “Interest rates were 18 per cent in 1980 when the company started,” he says. “We had only one sale in...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | May 11, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
When Joyce Paron, Canadian president of Exit Realty Corp. International, joined the company 23 years ago, the real estate market was coming off a recession. Exit Realty was a year into its Canadian operations when founder Steve Morris invited Paron to join the...
by Susan Doran | Mar 30, 2020 | Featured, Profiles
HomeLife Realty Services founder and CEO Andrew Cimerman recently received his 50-year pin from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board, a marker of the passing years that has him jokingly reflecting on “whether it’s something to celebrate, or to be concerned about.”...