MLS is the biggest monopoly in Canada And the problem is that you can’t do anything about it, or can you? How the Competition Bureau saw it in 2010 In 2010, the federal #Competition Bureau threatened to completely flip the script and change the realty game. After years of investigations and talks, it said it…
How to sell your house in 2018 (using FSBO, mere listing) and save a lot of money In today’s day in age, it can get quite tough trying to navigate the #real estate industry. There are a lot of choices for a consumer to make, not only in the house they are trying to buy…
The future is coming Whether you like it or not, extremely smart engineers and scientists are currently ratcheting up their skills and making sure they stay on top of the best research in machine learning and #artificial intelligence. Some of these engineers are even creating extremely useful artificially intelligent systems in 2017. General Electric has…
How to pick a discount real estate brokerage So you’re about to sell your home, or possibly buy a new one and you know you don’t want to be spending upwards of $50,000 on commissions (on your $1M home), so what do you do? With so many realtors in the #GTA, the task of choosing…
Doing it yourself – the self led MLS listing We are all looking to #save money, especially in a time of deals aggregators, coupon websites, etc… And yet, the one industry where this consistently seems to not happen is realty. realtors are NOT inventive or innovative What other realtors will tell you Here is a…
Are realtors really worth 1/20th of your home value? If you are a bit older and have been around the block, you may have actually seen realtors do a lot of work. Before the era of mass #market computing, super easy advertising and consolidation that has led to the great advances we see in the…
It’s a fair question, right? I’m sure it’s even something you’ve asked yourself in the past. Why is it that #realtors get to take a huge cut of my home #sale (or purchase) and effectively drive the price of housing up? Why do they all feel entitled to 2.5% (in #Toronto) for their services (and…