by REM Editorial Team | Aug 27, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Diane Slawych Two years after he moved his historic Victoria, B.C. house to a new neighbourhood – a sight that attracted hundreds of onlookers – managing broker Harry Newton says he learned one thing. “You can save any building, no matter how big.” Whether it’s...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 25, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Susan Doran Want to hear something that may convince you that gazillionaire business tycoons aren’t so different than the rest of us? How about this: Miles Nadal, one of the highest-paid CEOs in advertising, views himself as an underdog. “I come from humble...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 11, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Dennis McCloskey When Patrick, Cathy and Tanya Rocca were growing up in St. John, N.B., the siblings watched their father, Pat Rocca, grow a construction and real estate development business into one of Canada’s largest Maritime development companies. Yet, none of...
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 31, 2014 | Letters to the Editor, Profiles
Someone who should be added to REM’s list of The Difference Makers (June): Hanna Ostrowiecki founded Leading Edge Software in 1989 and was the company president until 2009 when illness forced her to retire and move quick!Office Commander products to Emphasys...
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 9, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Susan Doran Why would a pair of hotshot real estate professionals who between them had more than two highly successful decades with Re/Max choose to leave all that behind to start up an independent brokerage? When that question is put to friends and business...
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 7, 2014 | Featured, Profiles
By Connie Adair At 64, Gloria Valvasori said goodbye to her colleagues and walked out the door. Retirement? No way. Impressed by the award-winning agent’s track record, another brokerage had enticed her to join its team and Valvasori was, as always, up for the...
