MaxWell Classic Realty in Calgary established a satellite office in Whitecourt, Alta. Gary Piper is the manager of the new office. Maxwell now has six offices in Calgary, franchise offices in Canmore, Lethbridge, Edmonton and Lake Chestermere, and five satellite offices.

Prince Edward Realty in Charlottetown, P.E.I. has joined the Prudential network. The company will now operate as Prudential Prince Edward Realty. Since August, the office has increased the size of its staff from nine to 15, under the management of owner and broker Jim Matheson and co-owner Blair Fraser.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that two Ontario couples must pay a judgment of almost $1 million US, over a building lot in Florida that initially cost them about $4,000. The two couples bought the lot in Sarasota in 1981, and later sold it for a profit. But the new buyers discovered that [...]

A home buyer in England who held the vendor of a farmhouse hostage after the agreed-upon price of the property was raised by ₤250,000, has been sent to jail for three years.
News website Ananova reports that the buyer, Lester Stacey, threatened to cut out vendor Adam Adamou’s heart and gouge out his eyes after an [...]

A sales rep in Timmins, Ont. was recently honoured for his courage in protecting two young girls from a vicious dog attack.
While driving last June 27, Fernand Carriere, sales rep for Claimpost Realty Ltd., saw two girls on a trail beside the road, screaming and crying while three dogs growled, barked and circled them. 
Carriere [...]

Real estate newspapers — newspapers that contain advertisements of properties for sale as their main content, first began to flourish in the 1970s. They really came into their own during the 1980s.
The reason real estate newspapers began publishing, was to provide an alternative medium to the high cost of advertising demanded by main-stream newspapers. [...]

BY RICHARD SILVER
 
Not that I’m complaining, but I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who stop me in the street at any time in the day or night and assume that “How’s the real estate market?” is another way of saying, “How are you?” or “Wassup?”
I’m a Realtor, yet for many friends, clients [...]

I wish I were from Alberta. Or Ontario. Then I could proudly proclaim, “My province has mandatory education.” If I were from Saskatchewan, I could say, “My province has specialty licensing.” As of Jan 1, 2004, according to a news item on RealtorLink, licensees in that province will “have two years to complete educational requirements [...]

Real Quest Realty in Orillia held an open house recently to celebrate moving to its new location at 19 Andrew St. N. Real Quest broker Josie Manna, says, “I’d like to thank all the agents who came to the open house. It’s great when your competitors can put aside their differences to share in your [...]

For the first time in its history, the 800 members of the Kitchener-Waterloo Real Estate Board reached residential sales exceeding $1 billion in 2003. Executive officer Valerie Feick says the board also issued two “fee holidays” last year, in July and November. “Our revenues were ahead of projections because membership was higher than anticipated.  The [...]