by Susan Doran | Jun 4, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
With his term as Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) president finishing up at the end of June, Tim Syrianos is looking forward to more sleep and less information in his life. As TREB’s 2017/2018 president, Syrianos, owner and broker of record of Re/Max Ultimate, a large...
by Diane Slawych | May 24, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
“What normal family can live in such a house?” shrugs tour guide Titus Akkermans. No doubt about it, Wall House 2, located in the residential neighbourhood of Hoornse Meer in the Dutch city of Groningen, is an unusual structure. Its curvy modules, each in a different...
by Danny Kucharsky | May 8, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
Caroline Salette begins her Facebook page with the quote: “Real estate is not what I do, real estate is who I am.” “I don’t do real estate because I want to earn a living,” she explains. “I do real estate because that’s who I am; that’s what I do best.” Salette has...
by Diane Slawych | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
Call it a home away from home, or better yet, make that several homes away from home. One of the first things visitors see when they arrive by train in Zaandam, 19 km north of Amsterdam, is the eye-catching Inntel Hotel. Its exterior is composed of the facades of...
by Susan Doran | Apr 3, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
If you want proof that the past does not predict the future, meet Louise Martinheira. Her maxim, “You can do it as long as you have the will,” has served her well on a trajectory that began in circumstances that would have overpowered many. “We don’t talk about it...
by Don Procter | Mar 27, 2018 | Featured, Good Works, Profiles
Surrey sales rep Chuck Magnus thought his days riding a bicycle ended when he was a kid with a paper route, but after watching girls, boys, women and men cross the finish line of a bicycle race from Vancouver to Whistler in 2011, he was inspired to take to the saddle...
