The Logbook
The Agent Tales: #2 Jenny Wun
On an everyday kind of Saturday in a very typical April, I received an email from a high school student. It was just a single paragraph long, yet it turned out to be life-changing — for us both.
CREW Dogs #1
Recently some of the CREW got together with their furry friends in Hinge Park for a delightful afternoon and a very special merchandise drop.
Tales of True North #4: Alana Lemckert
know it’s a cliché to say that home is where your heart is, but that not-so-Bruce-Wayne immediately stole mine - and showed me what home truly means.
The Homeseekers #3: Mya DeRyan
How a fishing village on a tiny island in Cambodia taught Mya to make her way home.
The Agent Tales: #1 Faith Wilson
Early on in my career, the owner of the firm I was working with at the time called me in to tell me that he’s got a really solid lead for me. He gave me the address - and it’s a Shaughnessy home.
What we believe #4: Steve Bond
Growing up, I didn’t always have the best experiences with team sports. Yes, I know - a technologist who was bad at sports is a bit of a cliché. Whilst kids around me ran around and into each other uncovering lessons about teamwork and sportsmanship, I preferred solo activities.
Tales of True North: #3 Kim Catton
I can vividly remember the first time I went skiing. I was about five years old and my dad decided to take my sister and I night skiing. It was a typical North Western Ontario winter evening, the temperature hovering well below zero.
What we believe #3: Ravneet Gill
Four weeks of long days, almost-as-long hikes, bags filled with actual rocks and the occasional polite run-in with a bear will teach you a few of those life lesson things.
The Homeseekers: #2 Simon Bray
In the second episode of our series on the Homeseekers, Simon Bray take us on a journey to find home in foreign lands.
What we believe #2: Kevin Tran
There's an iconic scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana Jones is sprinting to escape a giant boulder hurtling toward him and, at the last moment, he blindly leaps out of an opening and narrowly escapes being crushed alive.
Tales of True North: #2 Bill Martin
Discover how getting poked in the bottom by a killer whale and piloting an ROV 1,000 metres underwater translated into lessons that echo what REW stands for.
The Toonie Jargon Jar of Shame.
We live in an age of organizations seemingly desperate to codify, control and police the way their people speak. Even to one another. And we gosh darn well think that’s [redacted].
A brand new adventure.
A new logo, a new brand and a new name Real Estate Works (REW).
Utility + Empathy.
The untold story of a potato peeler that inspired our rebrand.
Weekly. Wire. Works.
The mostly unredacted history of Real Estate W-word.
The Moon landing.
Every new CREW member is subjected to gets to spend an hour with our inspiring VP of Platform, Allen Moon.
Not our kind of adventure.
When we speak of “adventure”, we’re not talking about the wilds - unless you mean the wilds of real estate, that is.
Real estate is an experience. Not an industry.
How a potato peeler helped inspire our (re)brand adventure.
What we believe: #1 Simon Bray.
There are certain core values that make us, us.
The Homeseekers: #1 Alana Lemckert
These are the stories of some of our own CREW's real estate adventures.