By Heino Molls
Sadie Moranis is the founder of well-known Toronto-area real
estate brokerage, Prudential Sadie Moranis Realty. She has done well in the
real estate business over the years.
Sadie was not the first woman to go into the real estate
business, but she was one of the first to be this successful. She was the first
woman [...]

By Louise Parker

I once listed an abandoned farmhouse in need of a lot of cosmetic work.  I advertised it as just that, hoping to appeal to the fixer-upper buyer, but no luck. It was in a pastoral setting, serene, with mature trees and a babbling brook nearby, and I felt calm every time I visited [...]

Buying his own listing can land a Realtor in a good deal of trouble, as I’ll demonstrate in the following law cases. The first one is so unusual that I was wondering what the Realtor was thinking of when he did what he did. But in the second case, it sounded like the logical thing [...]

A jazz band playing at the luggage carousel and folks asking
us why we’re wearing poppies – welcome to the city of N’awlins,
USA. NAR is the
largest convention in New Orleans
since Katrina, but not the first large convention. According to our cab driver,
the American Librarians hold that honour. Imagine the mischief librarians get
into on convention – citing [...]

The Eighth Annual Exit Realty Corp. International Convention in Orlando, Fl. attracted more than 2,000 participants from across Canada and the United States.  Dozens of presenters, including keynote speaker and best-selling author Dr. John C. Maxwell, were on hand for the 10th anniversary celebration of the company’s growth.  Exit Realty has now recruited more than [...]

The York Region Real Estate Board is the first board in Canada to allow individual membership both in and out of its jurisdictional area. “What this means is that any Realtor may join YRREB.  We are no longer a broker-based board,” says YRREB in a news release.
 
The 400-member board does not offer MLS services – [...]

CREA’s president talks about how the town hall meetings are going, the upcoming showdown with the Competition Bureau, and what being a Realtor this year has meant to him.

As his term as CREA’s 59th president comes to a close, Alberta Realtor Alan Tennant has been crossing the country as host of a series of [...]

Victoria Joly of Toronto’s Brascan Financial Real Estate Group has been appointed to the board of the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network, an advocacy group for the success of women in commercial real estate.
 
Joly, a returning board member, has been an active member of CREW for the past 10 years and served as president [...]

Re/Max Unique has officially opened a ‘boutique’ office catering to real estate professionals in Toronto’s coveted Yorkville area.
 
Unlike many of the super-offices in today’s competitive real estate environment, Re/Max Unique is going back to basics.  The number of sales associates at the 101 Yorkville Ave. location is limited to 20, using the original Re/Max model [...]

In November, Prudential Real Estate Affiliates of Canada offered its network members a free regional training course on safety. Personal Safety for Real Estate Sales Professionals examines risks in the real estate industry and provides useful tips and solutions. It focuses on the perfect targets and prime areas for crime, open houses, new construction, dangerous [...]