Commercial Division reports that he had resort with a golf course for sale on ICIWorld. He had it on for a month or so and had about six calls, one from a realtor in Ontario who had a buyer for a golf course. They worked a referral, and Ian sold the golf course portion and paid a referral fee to the broker on the sale of a $1,250,000 golf course. This also was great service to the public the buyer and the seller.
Ian has received many highly qualified buyers for specific types of property such as golf courses, and other recreational property, hotels, motels, and resorts.
MARKET REPORT 4/28/03: Ian reports the commercial market is very active and he has written over $5,000,000 this year already. One reason he is so active, is because Westjet is flying directly to Comox from Calgary and Edmonton, in only 1 hr. and 15 minutes. It is making a radical difference in the valley.

Sam Schariefy, Abr., Sres., Re/Max Realtron Realty Inc., Brokerage. Someone saw an ad on ICIWorld on one of Sams exclusive listings. Sam developed a business relationship with them and said that property was not the right property for you. We have other listings and told him about another one. He also invited him to come into office and had a two hour meeting. Sam suggested a property. Sam knew about a person who was thinking about selling. He called him and ended up doing a deal $1,100,000. $30,000 commission and a job well done for both parties. They were both very happy.
Sam also has buyers from overseas looking to buy a business and home, and more buyers and sellers.

Scott Anderson, Broker, Re/Max Real Estate Centre, Brokerage placed a medical building on ICIWorld last year. It generated leads. He developed a business relationship with one of the buyers and during the following year sold five medical buildings to him for approximately $10,000,000. All started with one simple “Have” message on ICIWorld. Scott not only deals in medical buildings but also self storage and industrial buildings, and more.

Teja Nijjar, Sales Representative, HomeLife Suprstars Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage had listing in Niagara Falls that he placed on ICIWorld. Another member had a buyer and they worked together and sold it.

Brian Batchelar, Real Estate Sale Representative, RE/MAX Realty Services Inc., Brokerage – has done a few deals

An apartment building $12,500 commission, he was chatting with another real estate agent in his office who wanted an apartment in Windsor. Brian went to ICIWorld pulled off an apartment and gave her the info as a referral. He did not hear anything for 3 months and then got a cheque for 12,500 for doing a referral. It took 2 min. and 30 seconds. That was it!
Another deal he leased some office space in Brampton to a major company on the stock exchange. 3,000sf He had it listed, He got a call direct from prospective tenant. Showed the property and did the deal on the same day. 5 year lease $10,000.
Another was piece of vacant land in Muskoka. He listed it on ICIWorld and it sat for six months, got a call from an agent in Muskoka who arranged to see it and deal was done. Brian never did go to Muskoka. He showed it and sold it, $3,500 commission. He never did go to Muskoka.The apartment and office lease were on MLS and advertised and sold and leased through ICIWorld. Land was exclusive on ICIWorld.

Maryjane White, Sales Representative, Royal LePage Triland Brokerage, London, Ontario sold a mobile home park $1.3M and gets leads on and has sold many homes parks as her specialty.

Gurcharan Singh, Broker, Homelife/Miracle Realty Ltd., Brokerage, had a buyer looking for a gas station. He saw one on ICIWorld that was placed by another member and they sold it. Gurcharan has also sold farmland and makes connections regularly to do real estate business. Here is his mobile website. The advantage of Gurcharan’s website is that the public can search three major world networks of listings not just real estate board listings but also exclusive listings not on real estate boards.

Bruce Cooke, CCIM, Commercial Sales Representative, Royal LePage ProAlliance Realty reports selling a $4,200,000 apartment building and an $800,000 office building. The buyer from Europe saw it on the Internet on ICIWorld and from all the information and the pictures made an offer subject to inspection. He flew over to see it, did his due diligence and bought it. Of course there is a lot of work, correspondence and developing of a good long term business relationship that made it all happen. The ICIWorld connection played a small but vital role in making the connection to benefit everyone.

Baljit Gill, Broker, Century 21 Skylark Real Estate; Brokerage placed a shopping centre for $2,000,000 on ICIWorld. He received over 30 calls one from a principal that called him who saw it on ICIWorld.

He has established a good business relationship with his buyer who will be looking to buy more in the future.

Job well done!