by Mario Toneguzzi | Mar 26, 2019 | Featured, Profiles
The business model for Calgary-based Avenue Living Asset Management is a simple one. Purchase mid-market multi-residential properties that need some work in secondary markets in Western Canada. Spruce them up and thereby add value to them. Increase rents and income....
by Diane Slawych | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Profiles
The rose-coloured two-storey mansion, together with its sunken garden and large carriage house, takes up an entire city block. The Mercer Williams house, which sits across from leafy Monterey Square, is often touted as a must-see attraction while in Savannah, Georgia....
by Susan Doran | Mar 4, 2019 | Featured, Profiles
Ironically, most television shows about real estate aren’t hitting home, say Mike Montague and Arif Khan, both based in Barrie, Ont. As they see it, the issue is too much glitz and not enough substance. “Offerings include shows on decorating and flipping properties,...
by Susan Doran | Feb 26, 2019 | Featured, Profiles
Back in the 1980s and ’90s when it was one of the most economically depressed cities around, no one would have predicted that Brantford, Ont., would become the best place to buy real estate in Canada. But now it is, according to recent online articles by both...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Profiles
What surprised Michele Cummins the most when she started her real estate career? “In real estate they have this ‘have your cake and eat it too’ mentality,” she says. “As in, ‘We’re all Realtors here and we’re all one big happy family,’ and then the next thing you...
by Susan Doran | Dec 28, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
Fort McMurray, Alta. Realtor Julio Florez has won so many awards he has trouble keeping track of them. Recently he hit the mother lode as the national winner of the first-ever A.E. LePage Realtor of the Year award, presented to him at Royal LePage’s national sales...