Andrew Cimerman, April 2005
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].
Andrew Cimerman
HomeLife Realty Services will celebrate its 30th anniversary next year, led by CEO and founder Andrew Cimerman. He’s also the CEO of Red Carpet and Realty World in the U.S.
While describing the company’s international growth plans during a REM interview in April 2010, Cimerman said: “We are equally interested in growth in small-town Canada. Our product has been designed in a way that is very community oriented. (Mascot) Jerome the Gnome, our goodwill ambassador, is doing a superb job in building relationships in communities. Our focus now is smaller communities in Canada, while our eye is on major deals internationally, to continue to expand as aggressively as we can.”
In May Cimerman appeared on a panel of industry CEOs at the Toronto Real Estate Board’s Realtor Quest event. He said there is increasing pressure on commissions and made a passionate plea for attendees to help educate the public about the importance of hiring a real estate professional to guide them through their transactions. “We are all going to have to make adjustments to help educate clients that hiring a Realtor is the best thing to do,” he said. “We need to engage the entire business to show consumers that we provide value.”
