by Jim Adair | Dec 15, 2014 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Recently REM editor Jim Adair interviewed CREA president Beth Crosbie at the association’s offices in Ottawa. Crosbie is a sales representative with Coldwell Banker Pro Co in St. John’s, N.L.. Also sitting in were CREA CEO Gary Simonsen, vice-president of government...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 1, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
Salt Spring Island, the largest of B.C.’s Southern Gulf Islands, is the canvas that managing broker Li Read has painted with sales since 1989. She relocated to the island from Vancouver 27 years ago to provide care for an ailing family member. Li (rhymes with see) may...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 24, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
If Jennifer Gale was a betting woman she’d stake a fortune on her father, a highly competitive horse jockey, for imparting her with a strong backbone, an unparalleled focus and a killer instinct that’s earned her a spot as one of the top sales reps in Woodstock and...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 27, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Toby Welch Ken Lamb took a leap of faith – and it was a big success. Lamb got into the real estate industry in the mid-1980s, when real estate franchising in Canada was still a fairly new idea, working for a Re/Max brokerage. There he met his wife, Maria Corley....
by Jean Sorensen | Sep 17, 2014 | Profiles
Mobile home living conjures up images of cluttered homes, trailer-trash talk and the iconic Trailer Park Boys TV show. Those stereotypical images belie the reality of the modern mobile home development. B.C. real estate agent Sharon Lenning of Macdonald Realty...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 8, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Connie Adair Michelle Carduner became a real estate agent because, as cliché as it sounds, she likes to help people. Now she’s lending a helping hand, or rather two feet, by participating in a fund-raising half marathon to benefit Canadian soldiers. On Sept. 21,...