by Neil Sharma | Dec 29, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
Independent brokers often elect to join franchises in a bid to keep business surging, but joining co-operatives of high-performing realty brokerages may also prove bountiful. Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, a Chicago-based realty network with global reach...
by Susan Doran | Dec 21, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
Spending months criss-crossing the country was among the first items on the agenda for Marvin Alexander of Newmarket, Ont., who as Keller Williams Realty’s newly appointed director of Canadian operations will lead a growing team of more than 2,400 associates in two...
by Susan Doran | Nov 25, 2015 | Featured, News, Profiles
Canada’s largest independent real estate brokerage, Right At Home Realty, is about to open its new flagship office next door to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB). And that’s definitely not a coincidence. When it’s pointed out to Howard Drukarsh, Right At Home’s...
by Jim Adair | Nov 23, 2015 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Pauline Aunger loves being president of the Canadian Real Estate Association. She thinks more Realtors should get involved with organized real estate. Why? “Everybody says it’s to give back to the association, and that it’s rewarding both personally and...
by Diane Slawych | Oct 30, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
Some houses are not meant to be lived in. Take the six-gabled house in Cap-Egmont P.E.I., for example. It doesn’t have heat or running water or any other facilities for that matter. But then again, it wasn’t designed to be occupied. The house is made entirely of...
by Dennis McCloskey | Oct 28, 2015 | Featured, Profiles
It would be a safe bet to say that brain surgeons could sell real estate but a real estate professional cannot do brain surgery – or at least they better not! Tony Ma has done both and while he would be the first to admit that selling homes is not exactly brain...