In a recent ranking of Canadian real estate agents by Rate-My-Agent.com Inc, 33 RE/MAX agents were named in the Top 100 list for 2020, claiming the most of any other brokerage. The review site compiled its list of top-rated Canadian real estate agents based on ratings and reviews received during 2020.
Congratulations to the RE/MAX agents from coast to coast made the list!
#4 – Jennifer Queen – RE/MAX Professionals (Winnipeg, MB) #6 – Jamie Swaile – RE/MAX Performance Realty (Winnipeg, MB) #8 – Ben Sweet & Meredith Miller – RE/MAX iRealty Innovations (Calgary, AB) #11 – Patrick Fields – RE/MAX Select (Edmonton, AB) #14 – Erin Hayes – RE/MAX Edge Realty Inc. (Burlington, ON) #15 – Amber Van Den Broek – RE/MAX Executives Realty (Winnipeg, MB) #17 – Evelyn Lacerda – RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc. (Mississauga, ON) #19 – Andy Kloppenborg – RE/MAX Performance Realty (Winnipeg, MB) #20 – Seth Allred – RE/MAX House of Real Estate (Calgary, AB) #21 – Anurag Sharma – RE/MAX Twin City Sharma Realty (Kitchener, ON) #23 – Mira Marion – RE/MAX Performance Realty (Winnipeg, MB) #26 – Marcel Gladu – RE/MAX Crown Realty (1989) Inc. (Sudbury, ON) #32 – Meagan McKillop – RE/MAX Professionals (Winnipeg, MB) #35 – Shawn Hinchey – RE/MAX Jazz Inc. (Oshawa, ON) #36 – Marc Parenteau – RE/MAX Affiliates Realty LTD. (Ottawa, ON) #37 – Pierre & Cynthia Charron – RE/MAX Professionals Saint John INC. (Saint John, NB) #40 – Rie Takahashi Zhou – RE/MAX Real Estate (Kamloops, BC) #42 – Mary Ann Schiralli – RE/MAX Aboutowne Realty Corp. (Oakville, ON) #43 – Laura Schewchenko – RE/MAX Real Estate (Central) (Calgary, AB) #45 – Michael Pavone – RE/MAX Elite (North) (Edmonton, AB) #49 – Lorin McLachlan – RE/MAX Executives Realty (Winnipeg, MB) #54 – Brent Miller – RE/MAX Real Estate (Kamloops, BC) #62 – Marcus Power – RE/MAX Professionals Saint John INC. (Saint John, NB) #63 – Colton Davidson – RE/MAX Real Estate Centre INC. (Kitchener, ON) #65 – Bill Papaioannou – RE/MAX Escarpment Realty INC. (Hamilton, ON) #69 – Scott Glover – RE/MAX Treeland Realty (Langley, BC) #73 – Reisha Dass – RE/MAX Real Estate Centre INC. (Burlington, ON) #77 – Connor Honey – RE/MAX Excellence (Edmonton, AB) #81 – Ed Dale Jr. – RE/MAX Professionals (Winnipeg, MB) #90 – Darren Yee – RE/MAX iRealty Innovations (Calgary, AB) #91 – Larry Paletta – RE/MAX Escarpment Realty INC. (Stoney Creek, ON) #98 – Carol Cohen – RE/MAX Elk Valley Realty (Fernie, BC)
Benefits of Working With a Professional Real Estate Agent:
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Canadian Real Estate is Competitive. How do you Choose the Right Agent?
According to research by the National Association of Realtors, there are huge benefits to working with a real estate agent, including higher sale prices. However, every homebuyer and seller would be wise to do some “home work” to find a real estate agent who knows his or her market and who has a proven track record. Treat your vetting process like you would a job interview: ask lots of questions, and don’t settle until you’re satisfied with the answers. Click here for seven starter questions that should be on your list.
TORONTO – One expert predicts Ottawa‘s changes to mortgage rules will help spur demand among potential homebuyers but says policies aimed at driving new supply are needed to address the “core issues” facing the market.
The federal government’s changes, set to come into force mid-December, include a higher price cap for insured mortgages to allow more people to qualify for a mortgage with less than a 20 per cent down payment.
The government will also expand its 30-year mortgage amortization to include first-time homebuyers buying any type of home, as well as anybody buying a newly built home.
CIBC Capital Markets deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal calls it a “significant” move likely to accelerate the recovery of the housing market, a process already underway as interest rates have begun to fall.
However, he says in a note that policymakers should aim to “prevent that from becoming too much of a good thing” through policies geared toward the supply side.
Tal says the main issue is the lack of supply available to respond to Canada’s rapidly increasing population, particularly in major cities.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 17,2024.
OTTAWA – The Canadian Real Estate Association says the number of homes sold in August fell compared with a year ago as the market remained largely stuck in a holding pattern despite borrowing costs beginning to come down.
The association says the number of homes sold in August fell 2.1 per cent compared with the same month last year.
On a seasonally adjusted month-over-month basis, national home sales edged up 1.3 per cent from July.
CREA senior economist Shaun Cathcart says that with forecasts of lower interest rates throughout the rest of this year and into 2025, “it makes sense that prospective buyers might continue to hold off for improved affordability, especially since prices are still well behaved in most of the country.”
The national average sale price for August amounted to $649,100, a 0.1 per cent increase compared with a year earlier.
The number of newly listed properties was up 1.1 per cent month-over-month.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2024.
MONTREAL – Two Quebec real estate brokers are facing fines and years-long suspensions for submitting bogus offers on homes to drive up prices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Christine Girouard has been suspended for 14 years and her business partner, Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin, has been suspended for nine years after Quebec’s authority of real estate brokerage found they used fake bids to get buyers to raise their offers.
Girouard is a well-known broker who previously starred on a Quebec reality show that follows top real estate agents in the province.
She is facing a fine of $50,000, while Dauphinais-Fortin has been fined $10,000.
The two brokers were suspended in May 2023 after La Presse published an article about their practices.
One buyer ended up paying $40,000 more than his initial offer in 2022 after Girouard and Dauphinais-Fortin concocted a second bid on the house he wanted to buy.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 11, 2024.
