by REM Advertorials | Dec 9, 2025 | Sponsored
It’s every agent’s nightmare. The buyers sign a firm offer, the sellers breathe a sigh of relief, and everyone looks forward to closing day. Then just when the finish line is in sight, the buyer walks away. The deal collapses. The sellers are suddenly on the hook for...
by Connie Adair | Dec 8, 2025 | News
Power of sales are increasing across the Greater Toronto Area but are still rare in top-market areas, says Jane Zhang, senior vice-president sales broker, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada in Toronto. “In the Bridle Path, a top market in Toronto, the country and...
by Suze Cumming | Dec 5, 2025 | Columnists
The best alternative to a negotiated agreement — or BATNA — was introduced in the 1981 book Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Project and has since become a cornerstone of negotiation training in corporate, trade, and real...
by Brett Surbey | Dec 4, 2025 | News
A map that shows part of the claim area from the City of Richmond (City of Richmond) Almost four months after Justice Barbara Young confirmed the Cowichan Tribes hold Aboriginal title to 750 hectares in Richmond, B.C., the shock waves haven’t settled. Her...
by Marty Douglas | Dec 3, 2025 | Boards & Associations, Columnists
Trevor Koot, BC Real Estate Association CEO (and, full disclosure, my boss’s boss’s boss), recently wrote in REM, “I’m sure every one of the roughly 150,000 Realtors across Canada can point to a happenstance, coincidence, or fluke that contributed to where they are...