Toronto-based real estate veteran Ernest Furtado has joined KW Commercial to assist in the launch of the new Keller Williams Realty commercial division in the Canadian marketplace.

“There is a tremendous opportunity to recruit commercial brokers to Keller Williams, a company that offers more attractive commission splits than traditional commercial brokerage shops,” says Furtado. He [...]

I believe that restricting entry into real estate to only those with higher education degrees is elitist, suppressive and discriminatory. As a real estate educator I am strongly in favour of real estate education, but not of education to get into real estate.

The elitists, those in control of our industry, continue to raise the bar, [...]

In the photo: Mike Hurley
 
Mike Hurley and Michael Hurley, broker/owners of the former Prudential Hurley Real Estate in Brantford, Ont., have joined the Royal LePage franchise network.  The company will now operate under the name Royal LePage Hurley Real Estate.   The brokerage’s team of 42 sales professionals service Brantford, Paris, Simcoe, Waterford, Burford, Scotland, [...]

By Chris Chopik   Mandatory time of sale energy labeling appears to be coming to Ontario. British Columbia, the United Kingdom and myriad global jurisdictions have already implemented time of sale energy labeling to protect consumers from housing affordability issues in the face of energy inflation. The concept of a numeric index to score the [...]

In the photo — The panel, from left: Howard Drukarsh, Kimberly Fleming, Gary Hockey, Michael Polzler, Stephen Wong, Phil Soper, Andrew Cimerman, Don Lawby.
By Jim Adair   How can you prosper in the current real estate environment? Educate your clients about the changing marketplace, show them your expertise, keep an eye on the bottom [...]

Are we recession proof? I don’t think so. As I mentioned about two months ago, beware of the big ‘R’ word.   The cycle has returned – no surprise!  Let me see, the last time was in the late ’80s into the early ’90s. It was bad and a lot of agents left the industry [...]

Now that the dust from the federal election is starting to settle, maybe we can all get back to work on fixing the economic troubled waters that we are sailing through. It all starts with real estate and the purchase or sale of property through a licensed real estate agent.   It is a simple [...]

Re/Max Connections Realty recently opened in Smiths Falls, Ont. The new 1,400 sq. ft. facility has the potential to grow comfortably to 10 sales associates and support staff, offering a full range of real estate services to residents of the Smith Falls, Perth, Merrickville and Kemptville communities.   “We’re clearly motivated by favourable market conditions,” [...]

Take a moment to think about the word “marketing”. What thoughts come up for you? Do you wish it would go away? Do you start to think of yourself like a salesperson? Do you have self-limiting beliefs, like “I can’t market myself”? What feelings come up for you, do you get tense, do you get [...]

Voting members of the leading building code body in the U.S., the International Code Council (ICC), have overwhelmingly supported a residential fire sprinkler requirement for all new one- and two-family homes and townhouses.   The vote was supported by 73 per cent of the voting members in attendance.   The IRC Fire Sprinkler Coalition, an [...]