Category Archives: Industry News

EstateVue Partnership Announcement

The Ultimate Real Estate Marketing and Back Office Solution EnviroMint is pleased to announce its new partnership with EstateVue – a leading marketing agency that combines technology, design, and an intimate knowledge of the real estate industry, to provide brokers, … Continue reading

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Let’s Try This Again

Okay, so a month ago canadian mortgage laws were announced to be changed in a very drastic way. We even wrote a post about it –> http://www.realestateaccountingsoftware.ca/industry-news/buyers-beware/. Read it. You know you want to. Anyhow…when we originally wrote this post … Continue reading

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Protect Your Passwords

In this world of digital dependence we must put a lot of trust in the security of our online information. But as hackers become more sophisticated, it put a lot of our passwords at risk. That is, unless your password … Continue reading

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The Road to Recovery

Roaming around the internet today, we stumbled into a prominent theme: real estate recovery. A few articles we found were making statements about the market’s recovery, but only pertaining to North America, which, frankly isn’t a very broad spectrum. So … Continue reading

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Confessions of a Calgarian Broker

Interview with Corinne Lyall Broker/Owner of Calgary’s Royal LePage Benchmark Why did you decide to switch transaction management providers? We had been dissatisfied for quite some time with our original document management provider. The system had difficulties integrating with our … Continue reading

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Back to the Basics

Technology and industrialization have played a large role in the past century, carrying humanity to its current state. We have houses as big and creative as we want, with more power and air conditioning units than we could ever need, with fast … Continue reading

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Buyers Beware

Today, Canada’s housing market took a strange turn that isn’t sitting quite right with some, and appeases others. The changes that took place were that the CMHC (Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation), who oversee and insure the vast majority of … Continue reading

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Cali Goes Solar

California, being the environmentally progressive state that it is, has approved a new set of building guidelines making it mandatory for all newly built houses to have roofs that are solar-ready roofs. These new construction standards not only encourage positive … Continue reading

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Pre-Fab: Fab or Fad?

Real estate seems to be changing with the influx of pre-built homes hitting the market. Sitting outside the Scotiabank plaza in the parking lot sits a pre-built home waiting for interested passerby to peruse the property. During the hockey season … Continue reading

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Truth Be Told

Last week we made the presumption that the real estate industry is on it’s way to recovery, and it turns out that it is…but at what cost? In our previous article we pointed out that Realtors had seen their first … Continue reading

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