by Susan Doran | Jun 5, 2017 | Featured, Profiles
You can safely assume you’re valued as a leader if the only way to get an hour to yourself is by hiding out in your car. That’s where newly minted brokerage StreetCity Realty’s vice president Mary Johnson and president/CEO Costa Poulopoulos decided to hunker down to...
by Neil Sharma | May 31, 2017 | Featured, Profiles
There’s much to be gleaned from Stan Albert’s decorated career in real estate. Lasting over five decades, he’s seen markets rise and fall, but what sets him apart is the hawk eye he’s developed for every facet of sales – from houses and neighbourhoods to the agents...
by Diane Slawych | May 17, 2017 | Featured, Profiles
When Vincent van Loon lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam, he often encountered questions from passersby. “How do you get your water and electricity?” they would ask, or “Is it cold, damp and dark onboard?” After a while, van Loon thought up a way to satisfy people’s...
by Tony Palermo | May 15, 2017 | Featured, Profiles
Kelley Skar, the chief operating officer of Calgary-based Redline Real Estate Group, believes the term “full-service brokerage” is being used too loosely within the real estate industry, including within the pages of REM, and it’s something he finds puzzling. “In the...
by Kelly Putter | May 3, 2017 | Featured, Profiles
Whole adult lives are spent building sales careers and the real estate industry is no exception. That right combination of knowing how to forge relationships, form loyalties, problem solve, structure alliances, shape your reputation, hustle, toil against adversity,...
by Susan Doran | May 1, 2017 | Featured, Profiles
The members of Keller Williams Neighbourhood Realty’s Julie Kinnear Team in Toronto are happy to sympathize with clients who describe – in great detail – their recent knee surgery or their dog’s challenges around house training. And Kinnear and her team are more than...