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Growing up in the family business founded by his parents in Hamilton in 1980, Conrad developed a strong passion for real estate and improving the overall client experience. Now as the Broker/Owner of the #1 Brokerage in the Real Estate Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) since 1994, Conrad
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A Word To the Wise on How to be GREAT BY CHOICE Let’s end this article with what the opening speaker had to say. Morten T. Hansen is a management professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Great By Choice. Hansen narrates the story about the great 1911 r...
I recently attended the T3 Summit in San Antonio, Texas (great city!!) and usually I would recount my journey from the beginning, but this time I’m going to start with the end of my experience. On the drive to the airport, I noticed something subtle, yet so powerful as a visit...
Comparing our numbers to the anomaly year of 2021 seems counterproductive. However, RE/MAX Escarpment outperformed month-to-month compared to our trading area by 8%. The number to really take note of is month-over-month, which illustrates a trend which is happening in the mark...
Having grown up in a real estate family, federal budget time has always been something we paid attention to. I remember both my mom and dad commenting on how the budget would primarily effect the real estate industry. I remember asking my mom as a kid, “why is budget day so im...
So many economic pundits have predicted a wide variety of scenarios for the Canadian real estate market. As of the last few weeks some theories seem plausible, interest rates are climbing, homes are lingering on the market a little longer, inflation is at an all time high, and...
It’s always been a tradition of sorts to do predictions for the new year, but after the wild and crazy ride that was the first quarter of 2022, I thought I would put together a top 10 list so to speak of what to look for as we ride out the rest of ‘22.The MarketThere are so ma...
It's March, which means Spring is right around the corner! This month, our goal is to prep you with all of the tools and knowledge necessary to tackle the busy spring market. This newsletter is a special edition as it features the 2022 Resources Handbook. Detailing an extensiv...
Well its that time again. Can you believe its December already? Some might think that December is a time to connect with your tribe, your peeps, your COI/SOI, etc. Times are different now. The traditional holiday glad handing is still quite reserved, so it’s a perfect time to ...
During the last week of October I did something I have not done in nearly 20 months or 87.5 weeks or 612 days. I attended two conferences back to back. I was in Marco Island, Florida to attend the RE/MAX Premier Broker Summit, spoke on a panel, masterminded with my peers and d...
My first question is where did September 2021 go? It seems like a blur right now to me, while at the same time it was a month of many major distractions. Kids went back to school (physically I might add). The vaccination passport was announced, and questions swirled around how...
There Will Always Be Stress In the Canadian Real Estate MarketDid you know that on June 1st, 2021 borrowers applying for uninsured and insured mortgages, (typically those with more than a 20% down payment), will now have to qualify at their mortgage contract rate plus two perc...
A couple of months back I went on a tirade about CMHC and how they predicted a market correction of almost 50% in 2021. Well, they retracted that prediction, and have since revised their forecast, stating that housing sales and prices are more likely to increase in 2021 than d...
Lots of books have been written about the secrets of success. Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success, professes that in order to achieve proficiency in a skill you must practice it for 10,000 hours. If that is the case, how do you explain the tech wizard who cr...
How have we be weathering the pandemic storm? Join us for a jog down memory lane over the past 16 weeks and Conrad's weekly updates - always informative with some fun added in!
