By Michel Chevalier   Taxes are complicated. Taxes are boring. People feel they can’t do anything to change the system or to fight the system. People do little or no tax planning. People do their bookkeeping and tax returns at the last minute, which makes for a greater chance mistakes will get made. Few people [...]

Robert Nutbrown, broker/owner of the brokerage formerly operating as Coldwell Banker Innovators Realty in Brampton, Ont., has joined the Royal LePage franchise network. The company will operate under the name Royal LePage Innovators Realty. The brokerage has a team of 65 sales professionals who service Brampton and surrounding areas. 
 
Vanora Spreen, broker of record, will manage [...]

By Alex Roslin   Quebec’s long-awaited reform of the rules governing the real estate industry is getting mixed reviews from agents and brokers.   The main changes come in the province’s new Real Estate Brokerage Act, which is expected to come into effect July 1. The new law is meant to update rules governing the [...]

This is the 20th anniversary of REM’s launch in June 1989. In our first issue, the feature technology story was about the latest in fax machines. Nowadays, REM gets so few faxes that we’ve ditched our dedicated fax line. A story about cold calling in that first issue outlined how to line the pages of [...]

A Century 21 house price survey that compares major Canadian and American cities with similar economies and geographies shows that three Canadian cities are outperforming their United States “twins”. Three other Canadian cities have similar price trends to their U.S. counterparts.   “When you compare Canadian and American cities with similar economies and geographies – [...]

I love dogs.   I’ve had many dogs in my life. The best dog that there ever was in the whole world was our family dog Lou, who died three years ago. I will miss him forever. There never was before and there never will be again a dog as wonderful as our Lou.   [...]

Royal LePage is the recipient of a Leading Real Estate Companies of the World Member Achievement Award, The Global Alliance Award, for the seventh consecutive year. The award is given to the member with the most outgoing cross-border closed referrals for the 2008 sales year.   The award was presented during the Awards Gala at [...]

By Barry Lebow   The following is for those of you who have newsletters. You can reproduce the article but only in its entirety and only with acknowledgment that it was produced by the Accredited Senior Agent professional program. If you do use it, please let me know. You do not have to use the [...]

 
Century 21 Executives Realty sales rep Denise Dobie recently awarded a prize of 10,000 Air Miles  reward miles to Pat and Elle Dean of Vernon B.C. She held a year-long contest as a marketing initiative. 
 
“This contest has been incredibly successful for me.  It’s generated a lot of interest and people come up to ask me [...]

Sadie Moranis, broker of record of Sadie Moranis Prudential Realty in Toronto and the first woman to become president of the Toronto Real Estate Board, died on May 21. She was 84.
 
Mrs. Moranis was the matriarch of a well-known family of real estate professionals that included her son Stephen and her late daughter Terry. She [...]