by Karen Cox | Mar 15, 2019 | Featured, Guest Columns
The real estate business looks a lot different today than it did when I first started out as a Realtor 25 years ago. I know that anyone who has been in this business longer than five years would agree with me. The technologies we use today are different. Our buyers...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 12, 2019 | News
Grey Highlands-based real estate broker Karen Cox has assumed the role of president of the Ontario Real Estate Association. “For the first time in history, home ownership is on the decline. Now more than ever, we need to keep the dream of home ownership alive for...
by David Reid | Feb 26, 2019 | Boards & Associations, Guest Columns
The last year in real estate was one to remember. The Ontario Real Estate Association was at the forefront of some big issues affecting Ontario Realtors, the real estate industry and most importantly, Ontario’s homeowners and those wishing to join their ranks. Looking...
by Joseph Richer | Feb 1, 2019 | Featured, Guest Columns
Last fall, my colleagues from the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) and I crisscrossed the province to meet with industry leaders in a series of town hall events we held in Cambridge, Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Orillia, Windsor, Ajax and Vaughan. We arranged this round...
by Blain Martin | Oct 10, 2018 | Featured, Guest Columns
Samuel de Champlain and 32 colonists settled on the site of Quebec City in 1608. He and the surveyors that followed laid out farm lots for settlers, town sites, canals and railways. Surveyors were largely responsible for the creation of settlement patterns to...