BY HEINO MOLLS – I immigrated to Canada in 1953. Soon after my arrival, when I was five-years-old and started school, I quickly learned to speak English. I came to believe that English was a language just for children. I believed in my heart that only kids spoke English.
Most psychologists will tell you that [...]

BY JIM HAZZARD
 
How do you finance the purchase of rural or agricultural properties?  Here’s a horror story about the insensitivity of our financial institutions.
The buyer and his partner decide they want to move from downtown Toronto to develop a greenhouse, specialty plant business in the Niagara region.  The buyer will retain his high-paying job for [...]

Last month we touched on some practical problems about disclosing agency relationships. Here are a few more.
Due to different levels of experience, business and time pressure, Realtors’ frustration and resentment of agency, or just plain because of a lack of interest, the average Realtor may not be the ideal lecturer to expound on a complicated [...]

I would like to congratulate my grandmother, Joyce Rogers, on her recent retirement. Joyce was one of the first female Realtors to join the Sudbury Real Estate Board in the late 1960s.  Her dedication and commitment to the profession was second to none.
As a third-generation Realtor, I had the absolute privilege of working along with [...]

BY MARTY DOUGLAS – When you read this column — the Supreme Being and Air Canada willing – I’ll be in Italy, soaking up the Tuscan sun poolside at a villa, trying to decide between red pasta or white. Or is that the wine? No matter. And rather than take a crash course in Italian, [...]

STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATHY BEVAN
 
Phil Soper became president of Royal LePage Real Estate Services just over a year ago.  Since then, Royal LePage has moved from a wholly owned subsidiary of Brascan Financial Corporation, to a public company owned by an income trust fund.  This summer, Royal LePage Franchise Services Fund’s IPO (Initial Public [...]

GMAC’s newest franchise is Confederation GMAC Real Estate, serving all of Prince Edward Island. The new office has four sales reps. Celebrating the opening are, from left, broker Norm Kirkpatrick, Sue Clark, Kim MacKay, Charlene Francis and John O’Brien.

Almost 600 people gathered in Regina recently for the Century 21 Canadian Conference. In welcoming the gathering, Don Lawby, president and COO of Century 21 Real Estate Canada Ltd., said the company “has had a great seven years. We have increased our market share. We have added over 100 locations and in the last five [...]

While some tourists and business travelers may have been re-thinking a visit to Kelowna in September, Coldwell Banker Canada held its national conference there recently.
“We felt it was important to move forward with the conference and help support our friends in Kelowna and the Okanagan Valley,” says Gary Hockey, president of Coldwell Banker Canada.  “We [...]

Eliminating the Property Transfer Tax (PTT) in the areas hardest hit by forest fires and the softwood lumber dispute would stimulate economic recovery, the British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) says in a pre-budget submission to the provincial government. It recommends the PTT be eliminated for one year in the interior and the north.
“Incentives [...]