Re: Mortgages and Financing for Rural Acreage Properties : A Response to Jim Hazzard’s recent beleaguered plea!
I read with interest the article “Rural Properties: Where are the banks?” that appeared in your excellent November Issue of REM. From time to time we have difficult with banks, particularly the big urban banks known to us [...]

Bruce GMAC Real Estate recently opened for business in Greenwood, N.S. under broker Ron Fleming. The firm is owned by Daniel McGuire and Justin Barker, and has four sales reps serving Middleton, Nictaux, Port George, Berwick, Aylesford, Greenwood, Kingston, Waterville, Wilmot, Harbourville, Margetsville, Morden, Dalhousie, and Springfield.

Officially opening the new Bruce GMAC Real Estate [...]

Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty has expanded into Georgetown, Ont. Broker/owners Alex Ocasi and Gloria Riddall along with Catherine Fox, manager of the Milton operation, now direct a team of more than 120 sales reps serving Halton Hills, Georgetown, Acton, Milton and Mississauga.

At the opening of Royal LePage Meadowtowne’s new Georgetown office, from left: Andy Puthon, [...]

Coldwell Banker Vancouver Island Realty recently opened an 11-person office in Parksville, B.C. The company is owned by Wayne Dumbrell and Howard Story, and the office is managed by Warren Cleal.

Prudential Select Real Estate celebrated the grand opening of its new office in downtown Bolton, Ont. on Nov. 21.  Mayor Carol Seglins, regional councillor Chris Harker, councillor Nancy Stewart and mayor-elect Marolyn Morrison, joined by the staff of Prudential Select Real Estate, cut the ribbon to kick off a day full of festivities. Verona Teskey, [...]

Re/Max West Realty Inc. in Toronto recently opened a new office in Highland Creek in the city’s east end. The firm acquired the former Sutton Group Omega Realty, with Re/Max West retaining 35 real estate professionals who formerly worked at the location.
Founded in 1980 as the first Re/Max office in Eastern Canada, Re/Max West Realty [...]

Peter L. Mason has been appointed senior vice-president and director of business development at Royal LePage Commercial in Toronto. Mason founded Mason International in 1967, and held the position of founder and president until it merged with J.J. Barnicke in 1997. Until recently, Mason was the senior vice-president and managing director of the J.J. Barnicke [...]

Roberta Hayes of HomeLife Hayes Realty in Moncton has been appointed to the board of directors of Canada and Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC).
Hayes has been actively involved in real estate sales in the Greater Moncton area since 1980.  She has received HomeLife’s #1 Salesperson award in Atlantic Canada every year since 1991, and [...]

For our annual forecast issue, REM polled several of Canadian real estate industry CEOs and opinion leaders.  The responses were compiled by REM senior editor Kathy Bevan.
Our survey question this year:
2004 promises to be a challenging one for everyone involved in real estate across Canada, with the federal government’s increasing emphasis on Competition Act compliance [...]

Posted By: Robert Storring November 18, 2003 I just read Jim Hazzard's guest column (REM, November 2003) and couldn't agree more with what he says. Having sold rural properties for 30 years I run into this same problem time and again. Lenders of all descriptions will only allow an appraisal for the home and a [...]