by Barry Lebow | Dec 29, 2025 | Guest Columns
The rapid rise in housing prices leading up to the late-2021, early-2022 peak is often explained by familiar factors: historically low interest rates, limited supply, pandemic-driven demand and investor activity. All of these played a role. But focusing only on...
by Suze Cumming | Oct 3, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Columnists, Sales & Marketing
Suze Cumming, founder of The Nature of Real Estate and Canada’s Real Estate Negotiation guru, answers Realtors’ questions on the first Friday of the month about negotiation tactics and working through tricky situations. Have a question for Suze? Send her an email. The...
by David Greenspan | Jul 8, 2025 | Advice for Agents, Columnists
The market is quiet right now. For many in real estate, this summer has felt slower than expected – listings sitting, buyers hesitating, and an overwhelming sense of “holding.” And if we are being honest, we may not have hit the bottom yet. What we are seeing is not...
by Danny Kucharsky | Sep 20, 2024 | Advice for Agents, News
A warming Edmonton housing market has prompted a top agent in the city to be “disruptive” in using list price as a marketing tool — much like agents in Toronto and Vancouver did when their markets were hot. “We’ve been disruptive and changed buyer behaviour,” by...
by Ted Greenhough | Aug 9, 2023 | Columnists
We all overprice a listing, occasionally. After all, this real estate thing is an inexact science. When (and not if) it happens to you, it’s crucial that you own it, and not use one of these excuses: You’re too busy (chasing after new business rather than...
