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Redefine. Reinvent. Revolutionize. New Roads, New Challenges . . .
- Prudential Real Estate is a network of independently owned and operated affiliates dedicated to delivering high-quality real estate services. This leading full-service real estate brokerage franchiser awarded its first affiliation in 1988. The Real Estate group markets franchises primarily to existing Real Estate companies. Our franchise agreements give the franchisee the right to use the Prudential Real Estate name and real estate service marks in return for royalty payments on gross commissions generated by the franchises. The Prudential real estate network comprises 64,000 sales professionals in more than 1,800 quality real estate offices through the United States, nine Canadian Provinces, Mexico and Latin America.
Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services
- is our integrated real estate brokerage franchise and relocation service business. Prudential Relocation is a full-service global mobility management firm providing a wide range of solutions to support corporate corporate/government clients and government agencies and the recruitment, retention and relocation of their most important asset: their human capital. The relocation group offers a variety of services to relocate employees including the inspection and sale of a home, equity advances, assistance in locating homes, and a variety of relocation policy and group move consulting services
Prudential Relocation
- provides a wide range of domestic and international relocation services for global corporations and government institutions. The company's corporate/government clients include nearly 20% of the fortune 500’s as well as smaller, emerging organizations. An increasing number of our clients outsource most or all of their relocation functions to Prudential Relocation. We also offer total program administration for companies who have employees on international assignments. Today, we are ready and available to assist our clients in their relocation of employees from offices located in Asia, London, Paris, Toronto, Calgary and throughout the United States.”
Accredited Buyer’s Representative
- A supervised, optional, examined course, adapted and monitored by the American “National Association of Realtors” (NAR). The A B R Designation Course is powered by REBAC. REBAC is the world’s largest organization of real estate professionals focusing on BUYER representation. By providing specialized training and ongoing skill development, REBAC helps its members—and the homebuyers who work with them—experience more successful real estate transactions.
- Buyer representation is the practice of Real Estate practitioners, brokerages and their licensees representing the buyer as a client in a Real Estate Transaction. It focuses on the fiduciary duties in working for advising the client. Those duties address obedience, loyalty, disclosure, confidentiality, accounting / accountability and reasonable care and diligence. Agency defines the difference of being a client, no-agency customer, or Dual agency situation. This representation is referred to as buyer agency. The agency relationship between a buyer’s representative and the buyer is legally binding. The relationship can be contractually formalized through a written agreement, called an ‘Exclusive Buyer’s Agency Contract’, although it is not required. Fewer than five per cent of Realtors in British Columbia use the Exclusive Buyer’s Agency Contract but it is protection for all concerned and is becoming more necessary, appropriate and acceptable.
- Course and exam qualifications completed as well as the required five independent sales within three years. Our full accreditation is set for spring 2011 as the last “Working with Seniors” course has only been made available in Vancouver until this year.
Real Estate Home Staging Course / Canadian Home Staging Professionals
- From a Textile Background!/Practicum Designation
- As the home staging industry matures, a new level of home staging service is in demand. No longer is it acceptable for a property being placed on the market to only be de-cluttered, cleaned and shown as is. Buyers are raising the stakes. They are demanding a house which is move-in-ready – and the buyer who isn’t, is asking for a reduction in price.
- Real Estate agents who previously offered de-cluttering and cleaning advice are now turning to professional home stagers who offer a level of service which goes beyond the basics. This Elite Staging technique is being taught by Christine Rae and her team of experienced staging instructors through the CSPI Training Academy.
- Of the 250 real estate agents surveyed at Realtor Quest 2008 (Toronto, ON) 98% said they believed home staging services were critical in the sale of property. Less than 20% had ever done anything about it because of the challenges they face. The reasons given were: takes too much time . . . .” www.canadianstagingprofessionals.com
Real Estate E & O Insurance – Legal Update 2010
In the 1990s, six or seven claims were reported for every 1000 residential sales in BC. That rate has now dropped to 3 or four per 1000. The taking courses like these reduce the likelihood of professional and financial exposure. We are reminded that when we are doing a good job of protecting our clients' interests, we are doing a great job of protecting our own interests too. It is cool about staying current. Not here\VV
What Brokerages and Realtors Need To Know About Agency
The relationship between brokerages, and their licensees and the Buyers and Sellers whom they represent is one of the agency.
An agency relationship imposes certain duties upon brokerages and Realtors. Any breach of those duties and obligations can have serious consequences, including a loss of professional perception and commissions.
An undertaking of the law as it applies to the relationships entered into by brokerages and Realtors on a daily basis is critical to avoiding problems. This course undertakes the discussion of general principles of agency law and reviews the various types of agency relationships that are entered into by brokerages and Realtors. It also applies those principles to fact patterns (keeping current !) that managing brokers and realtors do, or may encounter in the conduct of our business.
Ethics – Unlocking the REALTOR Code
As legal decisions are handed down, they affect the way in which we handle each other. The “Code of Ethics” is continually being scrutinized and re-interpreted in order to keep the highest possible standards of professional and moral conduct in place. As Realtors handle what is in most cases, the largest single asset of their clients, refresher courses like these remind us what the current standard has to be.
Selling Tenant - Occupied Properties ( STOP )
What we see and hear in the media are usually the results of the misunderstandings of those people involved in renting or leasing. A man's home is his castle. The home owner believes that because he pays the mortgage and holds title that he has absolute authority over that man's castle.
From a realtor’s perspective, after presenting a solid comparative market analysis (CMA) and making a truly amazing listing presentation to the Sellers, we are rewarded with a brand new listing to sell. We are told by the Sellers that our new listing is tenant-occupied and, upon notifying the tenants that the land lord has listed the property with us, the tenants become uncooperative. The battle to maintain a good relationship while showing and marketing the property now begins. From the date of notification, the tenants go into “hiding mode”. Tenants over a short period of time start to realize that anything they do to assist the showing and selling process is to their ultimate detriment. British Columbia has some of the most tenant protective laws in North America. Know how to be ushered across the mote in order to enter this castle !
This course teaches the ‘current law’ and ethics prevailing between the rights of the tenant, the rights of the landlord and the ‘real authority’ that the Realtor has, under current legal guidelines.