Realty Executives Alberta has signed on to be a lifetime sponsor of the Lion’s Enclosure at the Discovery Wildlife Park, located just off of Highway #2 in Innisfail, Alta. The park’s goal is “to promote conservation and the preservation of species and habitat”.  The park and its owners have established a reputation of respect, honesty [...]

Statistics Canada reports that the number of marijuana grow operations in the country has doubled in the last decade.

The report says there were 3,400 incidents in 1994, but more than 8,000 incidents last year. The oveall rate of drug incidents increased 11 per cent last year, following a seven per cent decline in 2003, says Statistics Canada. Of the almost 100,000 drug incidents [...]

Dougal Shewan of Royal LePage Wolstencroft in Langley, B.C. has been elected chair of the Real Estate Council of British Columbia for the 2005/06 term.  Philip Jones of Royal LePage East Kootenay Realty in Cranbrook was elected is the new vice-chair.  They were elected to their positions at the July meeting of the Council in [...]

Local independent broker/owners Sam Thind, Jag Bhandari and Preet Purba have joined the Century 21 system in Surrey, B.C.  The office, formerly known as Apex International Realty, will now operate as Century 21 Apex International.   “We all have different backgrounds; myself in new development or renovation of both residential and commercial properties; Jag in [...]

Century 21 Ports of Huron Real Estate has a new broker/owner, Carolin O’Brien. The office serves the Southern Georgian Bay, Ont. community, consisting of Midland, Penetanguishene, all of the Tay, Tiny and Georgian Bay townships and parts of Oro-Medonte, Springwater and Severn. O’Brien, a certified engineering technologist with a degree in computer science, became a [...]

Sterling Stephens has purchased the Exit franchise for the downtown and surrounding core area of Halifax.  Stephens is in the top two per cent of MLS sales in Nova Scotia, the company says.   Jeremy Cowan recently purchased his second Exit franchise in the Halifax Eastern Shore.  All Halifax area franchises including Bedford, Dartmouth and Sackville are now sold out, [...]

Rick Siwek, broker/owner of Royal LePage Frank Real Estate, has acquired the business formerly operated as Sutton Group All Pro Realty Inc. in Peterborough and Lakefield, Ont. The Realtors of those offices will now be operating under the Royal LePage banner with Royal LePage Frank Real Estate. The company says this announcement adds 39 Realtors [...]

Canadians are showing more optimism about almost every area where they invest, pushing investor sentiment to its highest level in more than a year, says a recent national poll for Manulife Financial.   The 26th quarterly Manulife Investor Sentiment Index, based on a national survey in mid-June, found nine of 10 categories of investments and [...]

Waldo and Bonnie Neustaedter, owners of Century 21 Gold Key Realty in Steinbach, Man. recently completed the construction of a new location at #101 – 32 Brandt Street. The new three-storey, 27,000-square-foot building houses the real estate office and other local businesses. Waldo, who also owns Centum Express Mortgages in Steinbach, recognized the need for [...]

Although average house prices continued to rise, year-over-year, in all major cities across Canada, the rate of appreciation was less than in the first quarter and increases were slightly lower over the same period last year, says a report by Royal LePage.   The average price of a detached bungalow appreciated by 7.1 per cent, [...]