by Connie Adair | Jul 19, 2021 | Featured, News
In January and February of 2020, the Toronto real estate market “was on fire. We were thinking we were heading into our biggest year ever. In March, everything just stopped,” says Barbara Lawlor of Baker Real Estate Incorporated, which specializes in pre-construction...
by Kunal Sawhney | Jul 12, 2021 | Columnists
The Canadian housing market created massive wealth for sellers in the past year as prices soared, even as most other economic activities faced the pandemic heat. But in the past couple of months, the sales figures have slowed, according to data from CREA. Does this...
by Myles Shane | Jun 15, 2021 | Featured, Profiles
Penny Kander, a real estate agent with Realty Executives Alberta Elite in Red Deer, Alta., has been in the real estate business for more than 40 years and she thought she had seen everything. Then COVID-19 came along. But Kander, who has survived cancer twice, was...
by Natalka Falcomer | May 19, 2021 | Featured
The global upheaval caused by the pandemic was met with unprecedented government support and an equally unprecedented shift in political and business discourse. For the first time in recent memory, government and business leaders (at least the good ones) put...
by Scott MacPherson | Apr 26, 2021 | Advice for Agents
I never thought we would be using terms such as pandemic, social distancing and flattening the curve on a regular basis in our business. While we may have developed the ability to adapt to the everchanging conditions caused by COVID-19 in a relatively short period of...