by Diane Slawych | Dec 19, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
It seems that property owners in Hanoi, Vietnam would go to any length (or height) to reduce their taxes. When the city government decided, centuries ago, to base the tax rate according to the width of a property’s street-facing facade (the wider the home, the more...
by Jim Adair | Dec 17, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Michael Bourque, CEO of the Canadian Real Estate Association, doesn’t like the term “organized real estate”. He says the staff at CREA’s Ottawa offices no longer use it, because they know he doesn’t like it. “You’ve got organized labour and organized crime and I don’t...
by Mario Toneguzzi | Dec 14, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
Justo, a new technology-based real estate brokerage firm that recently launched in the Greater Toronto Area, says the real estate industry is at a turning point and its model “puts cash back in home buyers’ pockets and gives sellers a better fee and a target price...
by Mario Toneguzzi | Dec 11, 2018 | Profiles
Online matchmaking services are quite the rage these days. Now the concept has taken off in the real estate world with digital platforms being created to connect buyers and sellers with their ideal real estate salesperson. Keylo, based in Edmonton but operating...
by Susan Doran | Dec 3, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
North Group’s Amy Youngren has been described as the rock star of Facebook video. She has raised the bar of digital real estate marketing to a level inconceivable to those of us without thousands of followers on every possible social media platform. Youngren thrives...
by Sohini Bhattacharya | Nov 28, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
June 2019 will mark the 20th year of David Medeiros’ and Delio Oliveira’s partnership as co-founders of Re/Max Real Estate Centre, an Ontario firm named Canada’s No. 1 Re/Max brokerage for the most closed transactions in 2017. But when the duo ventured into their...
