During the mid 1950s when I was a kid, my dad worked in a furniture shop at Spadina and Queen in downtown Toronto. Sometimes, I got to go to the shop with him and I made a bit of pocket change running to the restaurant and getting coffee for everybody. I would pass the rest [...]
First of a three-part series about agency disclosure and the principal’s liabilities
The defendant in the expensive litigation of Hodgkinson v. Simms (B.C. Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada, 1994) owed a duty of proper disclosure of material facts, which were adverse to the plaintiff. Had the plaintiff been aware of the full nature [...]
Despite David Herman's claims (Letters to the Editor, REM, September), the B.C. Real Estate Association -‑ at the epicentre of Canada's worst housing disaster – has offered little assistance to their own members or B.C. home buyers in dealing with leaky condos.
A lot of water has passed through building envelopes since the B.C. Real [...]
If you write columns, the risk is that people will read them. Few readers are energetic enough to comment, even with the ease of e-mail. Those who do are usually one time correspondents.
Then there’s our Gary. Or as he referred to himself, R. Gary Robinson.
I recently learned that Gary died about a year [...]
BY KATHY BEVAN
Royal LePage Relocation Services has lost the $1 billion relocation contract it won last December, after an internal Public Works And Government Services Canada investigation determined the contract had not been awarded properly.
The investigation and the ensuing contract cancellation were prompted by complaints from Prudential Relocation Canada and Envoy Relocation Services — [...]
Century 21 Bridge Valley Realty Ltd. in Lethbridge, Alta., recently opened under the ownership of Larry Baker. He is new to the real estate industry, after a 30-year career as a high school social studies teacher.
“My daughter, Jaylene, now a Century 21 Realtor with my office, gave me the idea to go into real estate,” [...]
Sutton Group – Harrison Realty recently opened its doors in Brandon, Man. Broker/owner Kit Harrison has been a real estate agent in Brandon since 1984. He and partner Susan Harrison started their own company two years ago.
GMAC Real Estate recently welcomed the newest member of its network in Wetaskiwin, Alta.
Wetaskiwin/GMAC Real Estate, owned by Gary DeSpiegelaere and Leona Ledger, is serving the communities of Wetaskwin, Millet, Falun, Westerose, Pigeon Lake, Ma‑Me‑O Beach, Pipestone, and Gwynne. The broker is Neil Malloch, and there are five sales reps in the new office.
BY KATHY BEVAN
Realtysellers (Ontario) Inc. has launched an amended lawsuit against the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), to include the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) and the respective CEOs and boards of directors for TREB and CREA, as well as TREB’s newspaper, Real Estate News.
In an Amended Statement of Claim filed with the Ontario Superior [...]
