Books

At the fall NAR Expo in Boston I picked up Selling Luxury Homes by Jack Cotton, a Sotheby’s broker from Cape Cod. I could not put it down.

Former top-producing Realtor and REM columnist Carolyne Lederer-Ralston recently released Gourmet Cooking - At Home With Carolyne, an Amazon Kindle ebook.

Our real estate book review round-up: The Little Red Stick by Sue Styles offers “five daily habits that drive profits”, while Heart of the City by Robert Rotenberg is a real estate thriller set in Toronto.

Mortgage Smarts, a guide to mortgage procurement in Canada by Victoria real estate agent Helen Jones and mortgage broker Peter Dale, has won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book awards silver medal in the Finance, Investment and Economics category.

This popular textbook by research lawyer Rosemary Bocska and Toronto lawyer and frequent REM contributor Martin Rumack is now in its fourth edition. It’s not all dry legalese.

This no nonsense, no fluff, meat and potatoes book by Steve Silver called "Foundations for Success" is a great Canadian real estate training guide, available now on Amazon.ca or directly from his website.

“I wrote the book to reach other agents across the country who are not with my brokerages, but who really want great training and are happy at their brokerage,” says Glenn McQueenie, who is offering his 68-page book to readers for free.

Books of interest to Canadian real estate professionals

Buying U.S. real estate; Barron’s dictionary; Bruce Keith collection

You’ll be a better Realtor if you experience real estate investing first-hand, says author Tahani Aburaneh