Century 21 Canada’s
newest office is in Corner Brook, Nfld. Century 21 Island Realty Inc., owned by
Chris Brothers and Brent Veitch, opened its doors to service the 42,000
residents living in the area on the western coast of Newfoundland.
Broker Gerard Gushue has worked in the real estate industry
for 26 years.

Reg Kotlar, broker of Sutton Group – Norland Realty, is this
year’s president of the Saskatchewan Real Estate Association (SREA).
“My objective is to reorganize the current system in Saskatchewan from 10
boards to a one- or two- board concept. This concept will facilitate an increase
in efficiency and decrease duplication,” he says.  An organizational review task force and
independent [...]

Sylvia Smith, a top agent with Keller Williams in Calgary, has been awarded a new franchise in the SW section of Calgary. The new company is known as Keller Williams Platinum Realty. The broker of record is Diane Scott.

A new real estate convention on Hamilton Island in Queensland, Australia
this September will showcase the best of the Australian real estate
industry’s practices and developments to an international and
Australian audience of real estate practitioners, but with a decidedly
Canadian twist. Among the speakers at the event will be Gary Hockey,
president of Coldwell Banker, and Jim Reitzel of [...]

Two Realtors from Vaughan, Ont. have purchased the franchising rights for Re/Max offices in Romania.
 
Adrian Sischin, a native of Romania,
along with Gabriel Bianchi, a 20-year, award winning veteran of the
real estate industry, are the new co-region owners of Re/Max Romania.  Both are affiliated with Re/Max Premier in Vaughan, where Bianchi is the broker/owner, says a [...]

A new home developer in Oshawa, Ont. is offering Ontario’s first production homes equipped with a solar-thermal-geoexchange clean energy system.
 
The Stream system, unveiled
at a grand opening recently by Marshall Homes, Clean Energy
Developments and the Canadian Geoexchange Coalition (CGC), uses free,
renewable heat energy from the sun and below ground to power a home’s
heating, ventilation and air [...]

Royal LePage Royal City Realty in Guelph,
Ont. has acquired the business of Royal LePage Grand locations in Elora
and Fergus. Owned and operated by Robb Atkinson, Royal LePage Royal
City Realty now has a sales force of more than 130 Realtors, in five
locations.
Iris Smith will continue in sales, working from the Fergus office. Frank Wilson will manage [...]

In response to a growing
luxury home market, last year Royal LePage Residential Real Estate
launched an exclusive service for distinguished homes called Carriage
Trade. The company says The Carriage Trade program is designed to
provide Royal LePage Realtors with the tools to market and sell elite
luxury homes in Canada.
One of the first Royal LePage Realtors to list and [...]

MLS systems provider Filogix
Holdings Inc. is to be acquired by Davis and Henderson, a company that
supplies cheques and other services to financial institutions.
 
Filogix provides network and
system access used by about 12,500 real estate agents from 35 real
estate boards and associations. More Canadian real estate boards use
its systems than any other company.
 
Davis and Henderson will
acquire [...]

Doug Johnston, broker/owner
of D.C. Johnston Realty in Southampton, Ont. has joined the Royal
LePage franchise network. The company, which has a sales force of seven
Realtors, will now operate under the new Royal LePage D.C. Johnston Realty.