Stan Albert asks real estate professionals how they maintained a successful real estate career through good markets and bad.
The July edition of the Financial Post featured an article by Mitch Moxley entitled “Hey, don’t I know you?”  He interviewed several top executives and wrote about how they use chance public meetings to win customers [...]

In Single Agency (where the Realtor gives “personal representation” to the client), a master (principal)/servant (agent) relationship is established. A consequence of that is the vicarious liability of the principal for any wrong-doings of his agent.   I mentioned in previous articles that Transaction Brokerage is an alternative to Single Agency. To enable the consumer [...]

 “Never let a poor man tell you how to get rich!”  Larry Winget.
 
I saw Larry at NAR last year, bought his book, Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get A Life and, more importantly, read it from cover to cover and moved on, absorbing yet another self-help guru moving through organized real estate.  However, I did [...]

Realtor Emile Boudreau died suddenly on July 24. An active
member in organized real estate, Boudreau was recently appointed to the Real
Estate Council of Ontario’s Commercial Advisory Group, as well as serving as a
member of the Ontario Real Estate Association’s Strategic Branding Task Force,
and chair of OREA’s Ontario Commercial Council.
Mr. Boudreau served on several OREA [...]

Believing that “good news breeds more good news,” Sandra Reed, associate broker with Sutton Group – Heritage Realty in Markham, Ont., created a newspaper for the community of Cornell, named it The Cornell Crier and dubbed it “The Little Paper That Could”.
 
In October 2004, the Crier started out as a four-page newsletter that Reed personally [...]

There are “flashing warning signs” in Western Canada that suggest the recent pace of price gains is unsustainable, says a report by TD Economics, released today.
 
“Canada’s real estate markets appear to be in good shape and market conditions are becoming more balanced. Key exceptions are Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton,” says Craig Alexander, deputy chief economist [...]

Robert Rachella and Michael Dexter recently celebrated the grand opening of Exit Audace in St. Eustache, Que. “Quebec now has 15 offices in the province and are on track to have over 20 offices by year-end” says Joyce Paron, president of Canadian Operations for Exit.
 
In the photo, at the grand opening of Exit Audace, front [...]

Heather and Randy Johnson are new owners at Century 21 Princeton Realty in Princeton, B.C. Heather, a former sales rep with the company, says, “The timing was an important factor for me in making the decision to purchase the franchise. When timing was on my side and I examined the potential for growth, I was [...]

By Jim Adair
 
Former Toronto Real Estate Board President David Pearce has resigned from TREB’s Board of Directors over concerns that they will be discussing matters that could be seen as anti-competitive at the upcoming CREA Special Assembly meeting.
 
In an open letter to members, Pearce says he is also concerned that “the good policies put in [...]

Royal LePage Des Milles Îles in Blainville, and Claude Leclair, broker/owner of Century 21 Immo-Conseil in Rosemère, Que., have merged their businesses and will now operate under the name of Royal LePage Des Milles Îles. The firm will be based in the existing Royal LePage Des Mille Îles offices in Blainville. Leclair is the broker/owner.