by REM Editorial Team | Apr 12, 2009 | Guest Columns, Technology
By Richard Silver At a recent MLS and Technology Council Forum, the focus was Web 2.0 and its place in the future of real estate. There were lots of great discussions about adapting agent, corporate and board/association products to Web 2.0, looking at consumer...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 20, 2009 | News, Technology
By Jean Sorensen It was an image burned in the childhood memory of Bruce Dougall, sales rep with Re/Max Platinum in Langley, B.C. A young boy in a church concert dressed in a snappy red jacket playing a wonderful gold trumpet. The image and sound captured and amazed...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 18, 2009 | News, Technology
By Jean Sorensen In a much quieter market than recent years, two Vancouver real estate agents are racking up sales and hopping to meet demand. A week before Christmas, Ian Watt of Sutton Group – West Coast Realty was working on four deals. Tom Everitt of...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 20, 2009 | News, Technology
By Marty Lachance Video has become a hot topic in the real estate industry over the past year. I receive calls regularly from Realtors across North America, seeking advice and information about the value of video on their websites. The decision to include video is...
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 9, 2008 | News, Technology
Century 21 recently launched a redesigned website, www.century21.ca, which the company says revolutionizes the way consumers are able to search for real estate on the Internet and will also be a conduit to bring new business to Century 21 Canada brokers. “Most...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 1, 2001 | Guest Columns, Technology
BY PETER ROBINSON Disintermediation is a word that, if you have not heard it before, you will be hearing often in the future. Disintermediation means “the removal of the in between.” In context of our business, removal of the “in between”...