• How to deal with feeling burned out
• Opinion: Organized insurance scam or troubled industry?
• Charisma acquires L’Expert Immobilier in Quebec
• Adam Stern and Ryan Rabinovich launch RARE in Toronto
• Social violence and real estate professionals

How to deal with feeling burned out

Real estate markets across the country are on fire! In such a strong sellers’ market, the positives are brisk sales, huge bidding wars and record prices for sellers. A negative side effect is agent burnout. Every agent I’ve talked to over the past few months is flirting with burnout or is burned out and doesn’t even know it. One Realtor commented, “We’re all maxed out!” Many Realtors are going through emotional, physical and mental exhaustion. 

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Opinion: Organized insurance scam or troubled industry?

Every Realtor and their clients have been touched directly or indirectly by insurance premiums, possibly even as simply a consumer. Is it possible that there’s an unwritten conspiracy between the insurers to quote extraordinarily high premiums on their competitors’ business in order to discourage customers from changing vendors and possibly to even make the exorbitant renewal premiums look good by comparison to competitor’s quotes?

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Charisma acquires L’Expert Immobilier in Quebec

Charisma Realties, based in Laval, Que. has acquired L’Expert Immobilier PM, a Quebec-owned and operated agency with almost 400 brokers across the province. The combined companies now form the largest privately owned real estate brokerage team in Quebec, with nearly 600 brokers. “The landscape of real estate agencies has changed a lot in recent years. In the era of takeovers by large corporations, the Charisma family is proud to welcome the 400 brokers of L’Expert Immobilier,” says Marie-Claude Bonneau, director of communications for Charisma.

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Adam Stern and Ryan Rabinovich launch RARE in Toronto

Partners Adam Stern and Ryan Rabinovich want super agents and quality teams to join their Toronto company, RARE, a new platform they say will help entrepreneurial agents take their businesses to the next level. “Our resale division is completely unique,” Stern says. “Most top producers pay the most to the brokerage and typically receive the least. This is exactly what inspires our position in the market. We have basically flipped this model on its head.”

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Social violence and real estate professionals 

I was never told what many of us will be forced to deal with at some point in our career – a violent interaction. We enter people’s lives, we deal with their emotions, we deal with their money and we often find ourselves part of their relationships, even if it’s only for a short while. Yet we don’t understand how to de-escalate a social violent encounter. We don’t know how to let angry people get off their chest what’s bothering them at that very moment.

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