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The regulator said Wednesday that full payments could start as early as next week, as the fund recovery process makes its way through the civil courts. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/mbgd
RECO guarantees 100 per cent payment of eligible iPro commission claims
The regulator said Wednesday that full payments could start as early as next week, as the fund recovery process makes its way through the civil courts.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The regulator said Wednesday that full payments could start as early as next week, as the fund recovery process makes its way through the civil courts. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/mbgd
Another year, no change. B.C. real estate associations are renewing calls for the federal government to exempt interior ski resort communities from the foreign buyer ban, saying the rules are unintentionally hurting tourism-based economies. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/g22u
B.C. real estate associations renew call for ski resort exemption from foreign buyer ban
B.C. real estate associations are renewing calls for the federal government to exempt interior ski resort communities from the foreign buyer ban, saying the rules are unintentionally hurting tourism-b...
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January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Another year, no change. B.C. real estate associations are renewing calls for the federal government to exempt interior ski resort communities from the foreign buyer ban, saying the rules are unintentionally hurting tourism-based economies. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/g22u
The company has plans to use the funding to further develop the AI assistant technology and expand outside of Ontario. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/q6kp
Mave raises $5M for AI platform for real estate agents
The company has plans to use the funding to further develop the AI assistant technology and expand outside of Ontario.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The company has plans to use the funding to further develop the AI assistant technology and expand outside of Ontario. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/q6kp
After closing 66 deals worth more than $56 million in 2025, Cynthia Ostos reflects on the systems, discipline and decisions behind her growing team. Read the full Team Spotlight. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/ljxr
Team Spotlight: Q&A with the Cynthia Ostos Real Estate Team
fter closing 66 deals worth more than $56 million in 2025, Cynthia Ostos reflects on the systems, discipline and decisions behind her growing team
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January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
After closing 66 deals worth more than $56 million in 2025, Cynthia Ostos reflects on the systems, discipline and decisions behind her growing team. Read the full Team Spotlight. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/ljxr
Lower mortgage rates and falling home prices improved affordability in several hub cities, offering buyers relief after years of harsh conditions. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/deqk
Homeownership became more attainable in eight major Canadian cities in 2025
Lower mortgage rates and falling home prices improved affordability in several hub cities, offering buyers relief after years of harsh conditions.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Lower mortgage rates and falling home prices improved affordability in several hub cities, offering buyers relief after years of harsh conditions. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/deqk
Canada’s housing crisis won’t fix itself. RESCON President Richard Lyall argues that reducing taxes, reining in development charges and speeding approvals are essential to getting homes built again in 2026. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/9bdb
OPINION: Five ways to tackle the housing crisis in 2026
Canada’s housing crisis won’t fix itself. RESCON's president argues that reducing taxes, reining in development charges and speeding approvals are essential to getting homes built in 2026
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January 20, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Canada’s housing crisis won’t fix itself. RESCON President Richard Lyall argues that reducing taxes, reining in development charges and speeding approvals are essential to getting homes built again in 2026. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/9bdb
After a quiet end to 2025 for housing starts, economists anticipate slower activity in 2026, with softer population growth and expanding inventory in major cities. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/7j3r
Housing starts up 5.6% last year, but slowdown anticipated for 2026
After a quiet end to 2025 for housing starts, economists anticipate slower activity in 2026, with softer population growth and expanding inventory in major cities.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:41 PM
After a quiet end to 2025 for housing starts, economists anticipate slower activity in 2026, with softer population growth and expanding inventory in major cities. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/7j3r
Zoning changes across the GTA are reshaping what a property is, and what it’s worth. From laneway suites to six-plexes as of right, agents who understand development potential may be leaving money on the table if they don’t adjust how they value and market listings: realestatemagazine.ca/ou6i
How zoning reform is changing what agents are really selling
Zoning changes across the GTA are reshaping what a property is, and what it’s worth
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January 19, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Zoning changes across the GTA are reshaping what a property is, and what it’s worth. From laneway suites to six-plexes as of right, agents who understand development potential may be leaving money on the table if they don’t adjust how they value and market listings: realestatemagazine.ca/ou6i
What happens to your business when everyone is using AI and your advantage disappears? The answer might have less to do with tools and more to do with structure. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/ncmv
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January 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
What happens to your business when everyone is using AI and your advantage disappears? The answer might have less to do with tools and more to do with structure. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/ncmv
December often makes the housing market look calmer than it really is. According to columnist Daniel Foch, Canada ended 2025 with balanced numbers but without resolving the underlying pressures shaping prices, debt and affordability. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/j1vo
Foch: Canada’s housing market ends 2025 balanced, not resolved
Canada ended 2025 with balanced numbers but without resolving the underlying pressures shaping prices, debt and affordability
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January 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
December often makes the housing market look calmer than it really is. According to columnist Daniel Foch, Canada ended 2025 with balanced numbers but without resolving the underlying pressures shaping prices, debt and affordability. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/j1vo
Remax Canada says the Risi family-owned operation, currently comprising 1,200 agents, is the largest conversion in the brand’s history. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/paaq
Remax confirms historic conversion of 17 Risi family Royal LePage offices
Remax Canada says the Risi family-owned operation, currently comprising 1,200 agents, is the largest conversion in the brand’s history.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Remax Canada says the Risi family-owned operation, currently comprising 1,200 agents, is the largest conversion in the brand’s history. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/paaq
The annual list ranks the most powerful and influential leaders and executives in the residential real estate brokerage industry. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/yzek
Canadian real estate leaders land spots on 2026 Swanepoel Power 200
The annual list ranks the most powerful and influential leaders and executives in the residential real estate brokerage industry
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January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
The annual list ranks the most powerful and influential leaders and executives in the residential real estate brokerage industry. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/yzek
A new Royal LePage report suggests activity will pick up this spring, but not with the intensity of past busy seasons. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/l0iw
Spring market will ‘simmer, not surge,’ says Royal LePage
A new Royal LePage report suggests activity will pick up this spring, but not with the intensity of past busy seasons.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
A new Royal LePage report suggests activity will pick up this spring, but not with the intensity of past busy seasons. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/l0iw
Retention, education and smarter spending are emerging as key strategies for brokerages navigating another slow real estate year. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/33rg
Slow market forces brokerages to rethink spending, retention strategies
Retention, education and smarter spending are emerging as key strategies for brokerages navigating another slow real estate year.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Retention, education and smarter spending are emerging as key strategies for brokerages navigating another slow real estate year. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/33rg
Royal LePage President and CEO Phil Soper is urging agents to pause after reports the Risi family plans to move Your Community Realty and Connect Realty to Remax. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/rel7
Royal LePage urges agents to pause as Risi family brokerages plan move to Remax
Royal LePage President and CEO Phil Soper is urging agents to pause after reports the Risi family plans to move Your Community Realty — a brokerage of more than 1,000 Realtors — to Remax.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Royal LePage President and CEO Phil Soper is urging agents to pause after reports the Risi family plans to move Your Community Realty and Connect Realty to Remax. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/rel7
If you want a system that creates listings all year, not just when the phones start ringing, this episode is a smart place to start. Watch the full episode now: youtu.be/bTlZ7OsYnFc
The January Playbook for Real Estate Agents to Win Spring Listings | The Leads are Sh*t - January 8
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January 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
If you want a system that creates listings all year, not just when the phones start ringing, this episode is a smart place to start. Watch the full episode now: youtu.be/bTlZ7OsYnFc
Quick wins are tempting, but are they sustainable? Broker Justin Konikow shares his perspective on why consistency, systems and small daily actions may be the real drivers of long-term success in real estate. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/7m7o
The secret isn’t a shortcut, it’s consistency
Quick wins are tempting, but are they sustainable? Broker Justin Konikow shares his perspective on why consistency, systems and small daily actions may be the real drivers of long-term success in real...
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January 14, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Quick wins are tempting, but are they sustainable? Broker Justin Konikow shares his perspective on why consistency, systems and small daily actions may be the real drivers of long-term success in real estate. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/7m7o
An Ontario judge has granted a temporary injunction enforcing Keller Williams non-competes, challenging two brokers’ defection to Royal LePage with 600 agents. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/9y8z
Judge grants injunction in Keller Williams case after former franchisees move to Royal LePage
An Ontario judge has granted a temporary injunction enforcing Keller Williams non-competes, challenging two brokers’ defection to Royal LePage with 600 agents.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
An Ontario judge has granted a temporary injunction enforcing Keller Williams non-competes, challenging two brokers’ defection to Royal LePage with 600 agents. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/9y8z
After leading Royal LePage’s top Canadian team, David Tardif brings his agents to eXp Realty to form an ‘alliance’ with elite teams nationwide. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/rbj3
Former No. 1 Royal LePage team leader David Tardif joins eXp Realty
After leading Royal LePage’s top Canadian team, David Tardif brings his agents to eXp Realty to form an ‘alliance’ with elite teams nationwide.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
After leading Royal LePage’s top Canadian team, David Tardif brings his agents to eXp Realty to form an ‘alliance’ with elite teams nationwide. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/rbj3
Demand hasn’t disappeared in Vancouver’s housing market, access has. A closer look at how affordability, supply delays and household formation are shaping the next cycle. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/tz25
OPINION: Inside Vancouver’s next housing cycle — demand, supply and affordability
Demand hasn’t disappeared in Vancouver’s housing market, access has. A closer look at how affordability, supply delays and household formation are shaping the next cycle.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Demand hasn’t disappeared in Vancouver’s housing market, access has. A closer look at how affordability, supply delays and household formation are shaping the next cycle. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/tz25
Royal LePage is announcing new brokerages coming from Coldwell Banker that add to its reach on both sides of the country. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/v6w9
Royal LePage grows national footprint with New Brunswick and B.C. brokerage additions
Royal LePage is announcing new brokerages coming from Coldwell Banker that add to its reach on both sides of the country.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Royal LePage is announcing new brokerages coming from Coldwell Banker that add to its reach on both sides of the country. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/v6w9
In his latest column, BCREA CEO Trevor Koot explores how AI is quietly reshaping consumer behaviour, why resistance and over-adoption both carry risks, and what Realtors need to understand as clients increasingly turn to AI for information once considered proprietary: realestatemagazine.ca/iyof
Koot: AI is changing consumer habits — how will Realtors adapt?
In his latest column, BCREA CEO Trevor Koot explores how AI is quietly reshaping consumer behaviour, why resistance and over-adoption both carry risks, and what Realtors need to understand as clients ...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM
In his latest column, BCREA CEO Trevor Koot explores how AI is quietly reshaping consumer behaviour, why resistance and over-adoption both carry risks, and what Realtors need to understand as clients increasingly turn to AI for information once considered proprietary: realestatemagazine.ca/iyof
If January feels harder than it should, you’re not alone. David Greenspan shares why burnout, not laziness, derails so many agents before Q1 even ends. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/848v
The January trap: Why most agents reset the wrong way
If January feels harder than it should, you’re not alone. David Greenspan shares why burnout, not laziness, derails so many agents before Q1 even ends.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
If January feels harder than it should, you’re not alone. David Greenspan shares why burnout, not laziness, derails so many agents before Q1 even ends. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/848v
RECO has announced a major governance overhaul, a new executive leadership team and eight transformation initiatives aimed at rebuilding trust and modernizing Ontario’s real estate regulator. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/ue2g
RECO announces governance overhaul, new executive team
RECO has announced a major governance overhaul, a new executive leadership team and eight transformation initiatives aimed at rebuilding trust and modernizing Ontario’s real estate regulator.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
RECO has announced a major governance overhaul, a new executive leadership team and eight transformation initiatives aimed at rebuilding trust and modernizing Ontario’s real estate regulator. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/ue2g
Affordability has improved. Prices are down. Rates are off their highs. So why aren’t buyers coming back? According to Daniel Foch, the latest TRREB data shows the GTA market is now defined by slower absorption, more negotiation and weakened confidence. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/cflq
Foch: Why improved affordability hasn’t brought buyers back in the GTA
Affordability has improved. Prices are down. Rates are off their highs. So why aren’t buyers coming back?
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January 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Affordability has improved. Prices are down. Rates are off their highs. So why aren’t buyers coming back? According to Daniel Foch, the latest TRREB data shows the GTA market is now defined by slower absorption, more negotiation and weakened confidence. Learn more here: realestatemagazine.ca/cflq