by Chris Seepe | Apr 6, 2021 | Featured
Every Realtor and their clients have been touched directly or indirectly by insurance premiums, possibly even as simply a consumer. In early March I received a near exact 30 per cent increase in my small multi-residential rental property insurance premium. I heard...
by Jim Adair | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured, News
The evolution of real estate marketing online. New brokerage models, from discount to flat fee to cloud-based. Buyer brokerage. Part-time versus full-time agents. FINTRAC. FSBOs. Real estate regulation and education. The future of organized real estate. All of the...
by Jim Adair | Nov 19, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
It’s been a lively year for the real estate industry in Canada, marked by declining real estate sales and affordability challenges for buyers. A Supreme Court decision sealed the Competition Bureau’s victory in its long-running dispute with TREB and CREA, and a vote...
by Matthew Boswell | Nov 12, 2018 | Featured, Guest Columns
Legal counsel for the Toronto Real Estate Board recently wrote that the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to not hear TREB’s appeal “leaves open many legal questions”, particularly regarding consumer privacy. I would like to set the record straight. The truth is that...
by Danny Kucharsky | Oct 15, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured
Winnipeg Realtors can now have another job aside from selling real estate, after members of WinnipegRealtors approved an amendment to a longstanding bylaw. The amendment does away with a bylaw known as “the other occupation” rule that forbade Realtors in Manitoba’s...
