By Albert R. Teichner – If you have the misfortune to end up in court, you’ll need a good cause, good evidence with seamless records, a good deal of money to hire a good lawyer and a good deal of patience.
Lawsuits are time-consuming because of legal manoeuvres and scheduling issues. When you finally manage to [...]

Our organized real estate associations have been doing a pretty good job trying to enlighten the public that we “real estate agents” are a group of well educated professionals, but isn’t it time our profession moved with the times and elevated our image still a little further by getting rid of the redundant terms “salesperson”, [...]

Metes and Bounds – I was once told I had a great face — for radio! In a similar spirit, here’s some reader mail.
In January, I wrote about the latest “boogiemen” infecting our industry and received this response:
“You made me laugh with your article about the boogieman. I have been a Realtor for [...]

August 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the Durham Region Real Estate Board (DRREB), formerly the Oshawa & District Real Estate Board. Some Durham and Region Real Estate Board past presidents cut the anniversary cake. From left: Dave Tonkin (1989); Mark Smith (1992); Ralph Roberto (1988); Ian Smith (2004); Harold Segal (1967). In front is [...]

Exit International recently held an official grand opening and ribbon cutting at its new location in Mississauga, Ont. The event was attended by Exit executives, staff and special guests including Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion. From left: Bill Nasby, VP, personal development; Ed Martens,  VP franchise sales (Canada); Steve Morris, founder and CEO; Mississauga Mayor Hazel [...]

How’s your driving? A study by the U.S.-based Quality Planning Corporation last October looked at which occupations and professions are the most accident-prone, and real estate brokers cracked the top five.
Students ranked worst, followed by medical doctors, lawyers, architects and real estate brokers. The least likely to get into an accident are homemakers, politicians, pilots, [...]

Goddard & Smith Commercial Realty of Vancouver recently acquired a “significant” interest in Calgary’s NAI Bayview Realty, the company says.  The Calgary office will operate as NAI Goddard & Smith.
The company now has 60 brokers, and has offices in New Westminster, Langley and Victoria. It is affiliated with real estate service provider NAI, which has [...]

Andrea Deganis has been named executive officer of the Mississauga Real Estate Board. She brings 17 years of organized real estate experience to the post. She originally joined the MREB staff in 1987 and worked there for 11 years in various postings.  Since 1998, she has been executive officer of the Guelph & District Real [...]

By Kathy Bevan
 
A fund set up in Nova Scotia to protect consumers from financial loss due to fraud or breach of trust by real estate licensees has become a sore spot for some brokers and sales reps, who say they’ve contributed more than enough. 
The Recovery Fund – mandated by the provincial government to hold [...]

Two resolutions brought before a Special General Meeting of the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) on September 14 were defeated by a majority of the 417 votes (Realtors and proxies) represented at the meeting.
As a result, the board won’t institute a delay in uploading listings onto CREA’s national mls.ca website, and won’t be funding [...]