Michel Beauséjour receives the AEC award from CREA EO Pierre Beauchamp (left) in April 2007.
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]
Michel Beauséjour
Michel Beauséjour, the CEO for both the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board and the Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards, was the “glue” that held the industry together during his tenure, says Andrew Peck, vice-president and general manager of Royal Pacific Realty Group in Vancouver.
Beauséjour stepped down in 2010 after almost 11 years at the helm of the GMREB. He left under controversial circumstances, after using the term “peddler” to describe part-time Realtors. Referring to the new act coming into force in the province, he said, “The new law is coming to say you cannot do this part-time anymore…This is a profession and people have to make the required efforts.”
“Beauséjour brought forward the agreement known as the ‘four-point accord’ that brought large board listings on to mls.ca and defined the role of large boards on CREA’s MLS & Technology Council for the next decade,” says Gord Archibald, EO of the Association of Regina Realtors.
Beauséjour was the recipient of the AEC Award of Excellence in 2007, honouring the country’s top association executive.
