Sixty-five per cent of Canadians think it’s a buyers’ market right now and more than a quarter of those surveyed say they intend to purchase a home during over the next two years, says the 16th Annual RBC Homeownership Survey. The number of people who say they will buy within the next two years is [...]

Josh Bath
  The brokers/owners of Keller Williams Results Realty in Port Coquitlam and Maple Ridge, B.C., converted their office to the Re/Max network on Feb. 26.   Bjorn Soolsma and Deborah Stevens have more than 25 years of combined experience in the real estate industry. The firm had 185 sales associates when it dissolved, but [...]

Entry-level purchasers are the engine driving that’s home-buying activity in almost every major centre in Canada, says a report by Re/Max.   The report found that improved affordability is prompting many first-time buyers to get off the fence, out of rental units, and into the real estate market. While a sense of caution still prevails, [...]

Carlos Sousa (left) is congratulated by Cy Roach, the Canadian chapter’s longest-serving member.
  Carlos Sousa, a Realtor with Sutton Group – Associates Realty in Toronto for the past 11 years, is the 2009 president of the Canadian chapter of the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI).   Sousa, who speaks Portuguese, English and French, has been [...]

Honours go to…   Re/Max of Western Canada announced its list of top affiliates at the 26th Annual Conference held in Victoria recently. The event saw the presentation of two new Circle of Legends inductees, 74 Lifetime Achievement awards and 180 Hall of Fame awards.   Top 5 Individuals – Residential: Sam (Salvatore) Corea, Re/Max [...]

A.J. (Al) Boone of Niagara Falls, Ont. died on January 29 after battling cancer. He was 63. A life-long resident of Niagara Falls, Al Boone began his real estate career in 1986. He was president of the Niagara Falls Fort Erie Real Estate Association in 1999.   “He was a dedicated Realtor with Re/Max Niagara [...]

Women who have purchased a home say financial security, a backyard or garden and a quiet and private space to themselves are the best things about home ownership, according to a TD Canada Trust poll. Forty-three per cent of women say financial security is the best thing about home ownership, followed by having a backyard [...]

In the photo: John Furber

Keller Williams Realty announced last week at its annual convention in Orlando, Fla. that it is now the third-largest real estate franchise in the United States, surpassing Re/Max International. Steve Murray of REAL Trends, a U.S. source of analysis and information in the residential real estate industry, says the Austin, [...]

I grew up singing the national anthem every day in public school. We didn’t sing it in high school but we heard it every morning on a recording.   I am so old that when I first started school, we didn’t sing O Canada until I was in about grade four. Up until then we [...]

By Robert Evans Wilson Jr.   Swing and miss. “Strike two,” cried the umpire. I threw one more pitch right in at the player’s wrists. He swung hard, but the ball just dribbled right back to the pitcher’s mound. I picked it up and gently tossed it to the first baseman for the out.   As [...]