Hugh Nichols, Broker, Re/Max North Country Realty Inc. Brokerage has sold two buildings and leased out some retail space. One was a main street building commercial with two apartments as an investment $339,000 and the other was a commercial building with nine residential units and two commercial units also in Gravenhurst. They were both placed on ICIWorld. Hugh received about four calls and two of them purchased. The leased unit 3,200 sq. ft. was for a restaurant and he received one call and they leased it for five years. Whenever Hugh receives calls they tend to be well qualified as prospects. The Muskoka area that Hugh works is a tourist and a growing senior community. Feel free to contact him anytime.

Signed up for residential and he now does commercial. He took our suggestion for a website with both residential and commercial listings. Starting doing commercial real estate. Made $75,000 in the first year and has been making connections every since and doing deals. Sold a retirement home that was on MLS from the person he met through ICIWorld. Likes the exclusive opportunities that are not on MLS and likes the opportunity working exclusive listings industry-wide.

Tom Pileggi, MCNE, CIPS, ASA, CNE, Broker, Sutton West Realty Inc. reports that he has done several transactions on ICIWorld. He has sold land in Vaughan $2.5M to build storage units, land for residential homes in Brampton for $2.2M, 54 acres in King Township for future development for $1.9M and has others. Also businesses such as cafes. He says he highly recommends it to all his colleagues to join.

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.

A Century 21 Sales Rep. placed a campground on the service and had it on for six months and received over 40 calls. One purchaser was not interested after seeing the property, but the sales person showed another property which he subsequently sold within one week of that buyer contacting him off ICIWorld. $17,000 commission.
He also had a farm advertised, received over 40 calls, he showed the farm about 10 times. One person who was not interested in this farm, the salesperson showed another farm that he subsequently sold. $20,000 commission.

Video Recording from Realtor Quest Param Sidhu, CCIM, CEO-Broker of Record, Acres Real Estate Inc. – Commercial Real Estate Brokerage, has just informed me he has sold and leased several properties over the past year, such as leasing 24,000 sq. ft of industrial space, 1,000 sq. ft. offices, etc. He has sold 2,000 sq. ft of commercial retail condos.

The buyer ended up buying a multiplex in Leamington Ontario through a broker member. $3.2M in 2017. Looking for more. He is placing his Want in Database 2 FSBO’s.

A Century 21 Broker listed an office building exclusively for $1,650,000. Within 2-3 weeks of placing it on ICIWorld he received about 20 calls. He ended up selling it to a principal who had seen it on ICIWorld. Total commission was approximately $45,000. Some of these other buyers he is now working with.

He has had about six deals resulting from connections both directly and indirectly as a result of ICIWorld. He has sold a restaurant business, a triplex, he has leased half an office building over 6,500 sq. ft., for example and several more.

He says it is the easiest and most efficient method for both brokers and potential clients to find suitable investments for their clients. It certainly complements what is on his real estate board and fits together working side by side with his real estate board.

Bruce Brown, Sales Representative, Ed Lowe Limited, Brokerage, Barrie, Ontario has done several deals over the years as result of connections made through ICIWorld. He receives leads through phone calls and networks with people. He says he likes the added exposure and that professionals should not ignore it.