Empathy is not to be confused with sympathy, which – according to Webster’s Dictionary – is compassion or commiseration.
 
Sympathy is an emotional issue during which your feelings correspond to those another person experiences. Empathy is a triumph in communication. Although it takes a lot of time and effort to learn and master empathy, it can [...]

Chances are you have regret in your life. No doubt there are some things that you would take back, if you could.
 
You may wish the opportunity could magically rise to roll back time and give you the chance to do so. We probably all have regret by the age of 30. We definitely have it [...]

Part 2 of a two-part column about commissions
 
In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a line from Caesar to Brutus went something like: “You cannot hide yourself from the truth.”
 
If you’re bent on some new twist on promotion and advertising of your services, ensure that you comply with real estate regulations by explaining in detail what your specialty [...]

Whistler/Blackcomb – site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, resort area for the stars and the real estate boards of B.C.; your humble (well, on a good day) servant among them, as a director of my board.  But a director with a difference, a history, a columnist – one who, unlike the FBI, knows where a [...]

Eric and Linda Brauner of
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. recently opened a new independent brokerage,
Eric Brauner Real Estate. The couple has been affiliated with some of
the major franchise firms for 18 years, but decided the time was right
to go on their own to serve the Sault and area. They offer residential,
commercial and recreational real estate expertise.

By Rachel Goldsworthy
 
Vancouver Island
is virtually shovel-free in the winter and bug-free in the summer, and
that means the real estate market is hotter than the dog days of August
(which, frankly, rarely go above 25 C anyway). And since that’s become
common knowledge, baby boomers and their older siblings are selling
their big houses in Regina or Calgary and [...]

After
a protracted review process, Envoy Relocation Services of Oakville,
Ont. is being awarded half the cost of its losing bid for the federal
government’s relocation contracts, following a decision issued by the
Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) on April 26. 
 
The
CITT made its recommendation following a decision of the Federal Court
of Appeal, in an attempt to resolve what [...]

Canada’s
Auditor-General is undertaking an audit of the federal government’s
lucrative relocation contracts, acting on a request from the Public
Accounts Committee of the House of Commons.
 
The
committee put forward its request in November 2005, in protest of the
re-tendering process for the relocation contracts, which resulted in
the original bid winner of 2002 – Royal LePage Relocation Services –
being re-awarded [...]

Coldwell Banker 1st Niagara Realty has acquired the Coldwell Banker Pinnacle Real Estate offices in Fort Erie, St. Catharines and Fonthill, Ont.
 
Coldwell Banker 1st Niagara
is owned and operated by Jessie Ganshi, who also owns a Coldwell Banker
Commercial brokerage office in St. Catharines.  The addition of the three Pinnacle offices provides 1st Niagara
with a strong residential [...]

Prince George,
B.C., Realtor Tracy Lofroth is promoting her business by handing out a
disposable alcohol breath tester. The product “fits discreetly inside a
jacket pocket or purse and prominently features Lofroth’s picture and
responsible drinking message,” says its manufacturer Arrive Alive. It
says Lofroth will give the units away at local events where alcohol is
served.
 
“Arrive Alive gave us [...]