Connie Adair

Every year, broker of record James Caicco of Century 21 Choice Realty in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. has a goal: give his agents more value.

TCS Marketing Systems managing partner Mark Cohen has a goal: to be influential in adding humanity to the process of pre-construction sales.

For Sherard McQueen and Yaseen Nimjee, there’s a lot more to development than selling, building and walking away. The business partners at M5V Developments in Toronto aim to develop with a conscience.

Bill Becskereki and Sherry Hoover say their recipe for success combines hard work, loyalty, honesty and integrity. Soon-to-be 82 Becskereki and 60-year-old Hoover have no plans to retire or part ways any time soon.

Martinus Geleynse of Sotheby’s Realty International in Oakville, Ont. created a lifestyle video for his impressive $3,999,900 Beamsville listing. “People do not buy property based on pictures of rooms, it’s what happens in those rooms that sell,” Geleynse says.

Mario Lemieux has given Michel Naud of Engel & Vӧlkers Tremblant the okay to disclose his name to market the house. Lemieux’s name garnered lot of media attention, Naud says.

Broker Jennifer Evelyn will kick off her Paddle for Miracles fundraiser on Toronto’s waterfront near the Hospital for Sick Children on Aug. 23.

The almost 22,000-square-foot residence known as Belmont Estate, on a 1.28-acre property in West Vancouver, is now the region’s highest single-family residential sale on a single lot.

Potential buyers with deep pockets and a love of the Okanagan Valley are marking Aug. 16-19 on their calendars. That’s when The Avanti on Hobson, a 10,000-square-foot plus residence currently listed at $6,499,000, will be auctioned off with no reserve.

In March, everything just stopped,” says Barbara Lawlor of Baker Real Estate Incorporated, which specializes in pre-construction residential and condominium sales. “But we pivoted.”