by Sandy Huang, originally published in the Vancouver Observer on October 20, 2011
In 1985, while raising a young family, Lynn Hsu began her real estate career despite being a new immigrant with limited English and no social network.
From 1987 through 1989, Hsu was the number one salesperson for Western Canada at a large, national real estate firm. In 1990, Hsu bought Macdonald Realty; at the time a single office in Vancouver’s Westside. Fast forward 25 years and Hsu is heading Western Canada’s largest real estate brokerage firm, with over 1,000 realtors working in 20 offices across British Columbia and Alberta. Macdonald Realty’s reported figure for gross sales in 2010 was $4.7 billion. Read more…