Suze Cumming, founder of The Nature of Real Estate and Canadian real estate negotiation guru, answers questions from real estate agents about negotiation tactics and handling difficult situations on the first Friday of the month. Do you have a question for Suze? Send her one e-mail. Much of 2025 was spent talking about artificial intelligence […]
We are seeing an increase in demand for prefabricated homes, and as a lender I see an increase in questions about financing them. We dug into the issues to better understand what customers are facing and how we can best support them. From your side of the market, as a real estate agent you’ve probably […]
For years, broker owners have told me the same thing: “I know I need to recruit, but I just don’t have the time.” They’re right. Between running the business, managing agents, dealing with compliance and staying visible in their market, recruitment usually ends up at the bottom of the list. Then production slows down, agents […]
In one recently Real estate magazine articleI discussed the idea of value proposition. I wrote about how the value proposition of agents, brokers, real estate boards and associations, and the industry, has evolved. I also highlighted how the value proposition will continue to evolve. As I think about that article and how real estate agents […]
As a young man who grew up in Mississauga, Ont., Don Kottick was of little interest in business. While his parents encouraged him to go to a conventional path, he threw studies in anthropology, psychology and geology – not the typical origin story of a manager. But decades later, Kottick is at the helm of […]