BY HEINO MOLLS – In our journey through life, we have all picked up stories that we tell about our experiences. The stories reflect our thoughts, our perspectives and our opinions. We should all be writing them down. Most of us have heard the old adage that everyone has a book in them that they [...]

BY RICHARD FORSTER
 
A recent REM column suggested that real estate should be unbundled in this age of the empowered consumer. Consumers want a new deal in the 21st century.
Many new business models rooted, blossomed, and became compost in the dot-com meltdown of last year ‑‑ real estate among them. In that fallout, real estate prices [...]

Once upon a time there was a happy-go-lucky grasshopper. He didn’t have a care in the world. It was summer, the sun was shining warmly, and there was plenty to eat and drink in the meadow where he lived. Life was easy and he lived for the day. He continuously partied with the other animals [...]

 BY MARTY DOUGLAS -We’ll return to our adventure Men of Girth in a moment, but first this message. Nakalat Lodge on Stuart Lake in the upper middle of British Columbia, is an ideal site for your next think tank of modest proportion. The lodge is ideally suited for two dozen or fewer fishers or hunters [...]

Ken MacKenzie of the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board is one of the longest-serving executive officers in the country.  He began his career in organized real estate in 1969, serving as assistant EO to the Winnipeg Real Estate Board.  MacKenzie then moved to B.C.’s Fraser Valley Real Estate Board in 1979, making the transition to [...]

BY KATHY BEVAN
 
Using tactics that one Canadian board executive has called “extortion”, the Supra KeyBox company is phasing out its old AEII Electronic KeyBox system to make room for the more advanced – and much more costly –  iBox system.
Supra’s new DisplayKey, which is designed to bridge old and new systems for existing users, is [...]

Paul Maranger, associate broker at Judy Marsales Real Estate Ltd. in Hamilton, Ont. has been selected by internationally known speaker and educator Howard Brinton to join his group of “star agents”. As a component of being a “star”, Maranger was interviewed in a recording studio in Colorado, and the resulting CD/ cassette interview will be [...]

All three of the major real estate boards serving B.C.’s Lower Mainland are now  uploading data onto the same parallel server.
The Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board began uploading onto the parallel Wyldfyre server at the end of July; Fraser Valley Real Estate Board and the Chilliwack and District Real Estate boards were already linked to [...]

Brian Thompson has been elected chair of Real Estate Council of B.C., and Barry Clark is now vice-chair.  Thompson works at Dexter Associates Realty in Vancouver; and Clark is with Royal LePage Nanaimo Realty.
The B.C. council is made up of 17 real estate agents and salespeople, elected to staggered two-year terms to represent all areas [...]

Calling their new alliance “a significant lead-generating opportunity”, Coldwell Banker Canada president Gary Hockey announced his company is now cross-promoting services with Sears Canada.  As the exclusive real estate partner for Sears Club, Coldwell Banker Canada has access to more than eight million Sears credit card holders, who will be offered the chance to earn [...]