The Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB) has released its annual 2006 Buyer Profile, tracking where people are coming from, what they’re buying and why.
The board sent 8,500 surveys to residential buyers obtained from the MLS database for 2006. There were just over 2,100 completed responses from buyers. The report also contains a three-year comparative [...]
Exit regional owners of Quebec, Pauline and Paul Desharnais, are on their way to reaching their year-end goal of having 30 offices open in the province. Two of the most recent office openings are Exit Votre Partenaire in Rimouski with franchisee Gilles Lavoie, and Exit Signature in Quebec City, owned by Benoit Caron and Denis [...]
You know what? It’s time to start recruiting – if you ever stopped, that is. I have to confess, I haven’t thought about recruiting for years. I’ve just been a conductor showing folks to their seats, re-arranging the chairs and sweeping up every now and then; sometimes, as Barry Watchorn used to say, “herding turkeys [...]
A Richmond, B.C. real estate sales rep has been charged in connection with raids at two private residences that police say were marijuana grow operations. Tammy Wing Yan Tsui, 31, of Macdonald Realty Westmar, and her husband, Clement Kin Keung Cheung, 36, have been charged with Production and Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking, [...]
By Jamie MacMaster Ah, late summer in rural Ontario. As we contend with the hordes of circling deer flies, pests of a different sort are meeting in air-conditioned rooms to decide what form of miseries they will inflict upon us in the post-October-provincial-election world. I feel like a barren-ground caribou who has just been [...]
Sustainability has become a key issue among tenants according to the recently released Colliers International 2007 Canadian Office Tenant Survey. Of commercial tenants surveyed, 90 per cent agree that it is important for landlords and developers to “green” their portfolios, and – all other factors being equal – 91 per cent of tenants would give [...]
Ann Bosley became CREA’s 60th president in March, making Ann and her husband Tom (who served as CREA president in 1997) the first wife and husband to head up CREA. The Bosleys also hold the distinction of being the first couple to serve terms as presidents of the Toronto Real Estate Board. Ann Bosley is [...]
Buffini offers first ever Canadian retreat Training and coaching firm Buffini & Company will hold its first-ever Canadian “Turning Point Retreat” in Toronto, on November 27-28. “The Turning Point Retreat is a two-day seminar, where we share our proven, step-by-step systems for building a real estate business by referral,” says Brian Buffini, chairman [...]
Continuing tight supply-demand conditions have lifted real housing valuations in Canada above their long-term trend, raising the risk of an eventual softening in prices, says the latest Real Estate Trend report by Scotia Economics. “The fundamentals underpinning Canada’s housing market are still quite good,” says Adrienne Warren, senior economist, Scotia Economics. “Unemployment is low, [...]
By Dan Hennessey
At age 49, happily married and the father of two girls, prostate cancer was the last thing on my mind. My work as a Realtor kept me on the go day and night, and I stayed fit playing hockey and golf and running. But some things seem to catch up to you no [...]
