Century 21 Countryside Realty becomes Century 21 A & T Countryside Realty
The longest operating real estate office in the Moncton Metro and surrounding area, Century 21 Countryside Realty, has new owners and a new name. Tim Beaulieu and Audrie Elderkin-Beaulieu are the new...
View ArticleRoyal LePage Advance holds Salmon Derby in Campbell River
Royal LePage Advance brought the spotlight to Campbell River, B.C. at their First Annual Salmon Derby recently. More than $20,000 in cash and prizes were awarded, including a $5,000 cash prize to...
View ArticleManitoba fishing derby nets big catch
The Manitoba Real Estate Association Shelter Foundation’s Hooked on Shelter Fishing Derby reeled in $5,250 for shelter charities recently. Donna Kirsch of Winnipeg’s Gateway Real Estate exceeded her...
View ArticleRotterdam’s eye-popping cube houses
It takes a certain type of person to live in one of Rotterdam’s cube houses. First there’s the unusual shape that takes getting used to – each dwelling consists of a tilted cube on a hexagonal column....
View ArticleWhen do the training wheels come off?
This business is always changing, but as I think about my long career, some things never change. For instance, many professionals in this industry will pass on any training sessions offered by their...
View ArticleOne for the money: The B.C. proposal
In the distant past, somewhere around the birth of rock and roll, Colonel T.G. Norris QC filed his report on real estate business in British Columbia following years of effort by the industry to...
View ArticleStan Albert’s last column: What he’s learned
After 185 articles, I have decided to hang up my “pen” to allow more eager, younger and current writers to enter the REM world of thoughts and ideas. I think my articles have covered nearly every...
View ArticleIs the managing broker an endangered species?
Cards on the table. I was born in 1945, first licensed in real estate in British Columbia in 1970, qualified in the ’70s as a branch manager, as an agent or nominee as we were then called in the ’80s...
View ArticleColdwell Banker Peter Benninger Realty donates inflatable safety house to...
Coldwell Banker Peter Benninger Realty has donated a custom-made Fire & Life Inflatable Safety House to the Kitchener and Waterloo fire departments. The 29×17-foot interactive educational tool...
View ArticleDid you always want to be a fireman…?
Did you always want to be a fireman? If so, it may explain why you are thinking about becoming a managing broker in a real estate office. The reality is, most managers arrive by circumstance, in the...
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