by Jim Adair | Jan 13, 2020 | Featured, News
In a column published by the National Post in December, CREA CEO Michael Bourque wrote that government bears much of the blame for the housing market imbalance of rising prices and lagging supply. “A narrow focus on suppressing household debt has dominated the policy...
by Jim Adair | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured, News
The evolution of real estate marketing online. New brokerage models, from discount to flat fee to cloud-based. Buyer brokerage. Part-time versus full-time agents. FINTRAC. FSBOs. Real estate regulation and education. The future of organized real estate. All of the...
by Jim Adair | Jun 3, 2019 | Boards & Associations, Featured
When Toronto Real Estate Board CEO John DiMichele was working as a manager for Royal LePage in the late 1990s, the board had about 17,000 members. “Now, our numbers are staggering,” says DiMichele. “There are over 54,000 members, and if you bring in our partner...
by Jim Adair | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured
“Nobody knows what the potential is for self storage in Canada,” says Reade DeCurtins, managing principal at Bluebird Self Storage. But he says the country is underserved with Class-A self-storage facilities and “there’s a tremendous runway available for Canadian...
by Jim Adair | Dec 17, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Michael Bourque, CEO of the Canadian Real Estate Association, doesn’t like the term “organized real estate”. He says the staff at CREA’s Ottawa offices no longer use it, because they know he doesn’t like it. “You’ve got organized labour and organized crime and I don’t...
