I am dedicating  this month’s column to something other than coaching, cajoling and editorializing about the real estate industry and its leaders.
 
We’ve talked many times about procrastination and time management, to the point that I deem it almost redundant to repeat it ever again!
 
Yet, recently my wife and I listened attentively as one of our [...]

This is the time for New Year’s Resolutions and the setting of goals (short-term, long-term, worthwhile, and achievable). We go through this exercise to change our lives for the better: happiness, health, wealth, success. Some people refuse to set goals because they feel they need an iron will to stick with the program (otherwise they [...]

You may be too late to go to the best little real estate conference in North America.
I’m kidding – there’s time but only just. 
Get to the website (www.banffwesternconnection.com/). The dates for the conference held only every two years are Jan. 25 – 27, 2007.  Everyone
who is anyone will be there, including Queen Elizabeth, George [...]

P.T. Barnum once said, “Without promotion something terrible
happens – nothing.”
I was looking for material to add to my school’s Accredited
Buyer Representative (ABR) course material and as we are all wont to do these
days, I started my search on Google. I thought that finding articles on the
value of a professional designation would be easy and [...]

By Jim Adair

Royal LePage Real Estate Services is targeting the powerful 50-plus market with the launch of a new specialized designation program.
There are currently 10 million Canadians over age 50, and it’s the fastest-growing segment of the population. By 2010, there will be 12 million 50-plus Canadians. Royal LePage says that the “shifting mindset” [...]

A new website and television campaign to promote the value of using a Realtor was launched in Ontario markets November 6.
 
“It’s an effort to create consumers who are positively pre-disposed to using a Realtor,” says Bob McLean, director of communication for the Ontario Real Estate Association.
 
The campaign was developed by Toronto advertising agency Zig, which [...]

Century 21 Canada celebrated its 30-year anniversary recently at its Canadian conference in Montreal.  With near record-breaking attendance, the 2007 conference was a huge success, say the organizers.
 
The 2005 Sales Associate of the Year award went to Don Wyld of Century 21 Town & Country Realty in Kingston, Ont., who has racked up 33 awards [...]

Susanita de Diego opened Coldwell Banker Your Calgary Home Selling Team, Brokerage, in Calgary on September 1.
 
An enthusiastic supporter of Coldwell Banker during a long career as one of the network’s most successful sales professionals, de Diego is the broker/owner of the new company.  She has served as an educator for Coldwell Banker Affiliates of [...]

Macdonald Realty Osoyoos has opened its door to the South Okanagan marketplace. Formerly Fraser Real Estate and Insurance (est.1948), the company had been serving the region longer than any other real estate firm (under two ownerships), providing real estate service in Osoyoos, Oliver and outlying areas of Keremeos, Princeton, OkanaganFalls, Greenwood and Midway. 
 
Don Gerein, [...]

Wes Schollenberg is the new managing partner of Avison Young Commercial Real Estate (Manitoba) Inc., and will lead a team of Winnipeg industry professionals in commercial leasing, sales, investment and development.  He brings over 20 years of real estate experience to the position, with an extensive background that includes his current role as president-elect of [...]