Canada’s Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission has fined a Saskatoon realtor $3,000 and issued an official reprimand for making hostile comments about transgender people on social media. According to a CBC report, Murray Kurtenbach of Century 21 Fusion published posts...
Montreal-headquartered Nesto has acquired CMLS Group, Canada’s third-largest mortgage finance company. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the companies stated the transaction was supported by investments from Diagram Ventures, Portage,...
Switzerland’s central bank enacted its second interest rate cut of the year while the Bank of England opted to hold rates at their current level. The Swiss National Bank slashed its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%. In March, Switzerland became the first...
Nearly two-thirds of European renters (64%) said they lack the funds for a down payment on a home, while more than half (58%) don’t believe they can save enough for a down payment over the next three years, according to a new survey released by Adevinta, an online...
A New Zealand real estate agent has gone to court to fight a government regulator’s requirement that she take mandatory training related to the nation’s indigenous Māori values. Radio New Zealand reports that Auckland-based Janet Dickson could face a five-year ban...
There is honesty, and then there is brutal honesty, and then there is Ash Swarts, a sales consultant with Australia’s O’Neil Real Estate who authored a listing for a home in the Perth suburb of Kelmscott. According to the Daily Mail, Swarts’ listing acknowledged the...
