Cliff Palmer

To celebrate 25 years of serving Canada’s real estate community, REM asked a small group of real estate leaders this question:

“Who had the biggest impact – good or bad – on Canadian real estate in the last 25 years?

This is not a popularity contest or a marketing exercise. We want to know who you think had the biggest impact on the industry in the last 25 years – even if it was, in your opinion, a negative impact. Your choices could include Realtors, company executives, association executive officers, regulators, service company executives….even politicians! Who has had the most impact during the last 25 years in making the industry what it is today?”

REM took those consensus picks and added our own and the results will be revealed on REM online every day until the end of June.  Take a look and see if you agree with these choices, and then let us know who we missed. Add your comments below or drop an email to [email protected].

Cliff Palmer

The late Cliff Palmer was the 1995 president of WinnipegRealtors and one of the partners in the first Re/Max office in Winnipeg. “He showed through his vision and entrepreneurial spirit what Realtors can do to revitalize a neighbourhood on the cusp of serious decline and promote homeownership at the same time,” says Peter Squire, director of communications at WinnipegRealtors.

“He is the founder of the Housing Opportunity Partnership (HOP), a non-profit housing revitalization initiative dedicated to community revitalization and strengthening home ownership opportunities for low- to moderate-income buyers.

“His legacy for Canada’s real estate community is he ably demonstrated through HOP’s success (since acquiring and completely refurbishing existing homes or building new infills in Winnipeg’s West End, the average price of homes has gone up over five-fold) what Realtors can do to positively impact a community.”