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...
by Jim Adair | Nov 19, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
It’s been a lively year for the real estate industry in Canada, marked by declining real estate sales and affordability challenges for buyers. A Supreme Court decision sealed the Competition Bureau’s victory in its long-running dispute with TREB and CREA, and a vote...
by Jim Adair | Sep 25, 2018 | Featured, News
As of Monday, 620 Toronto Real Estate Board members with virtual office websites (VOWs) are receiving sold and other information in compliance with the Competition Tribunal’s order. Another 316 VOWs have applied for the feed and are being processed. To be compliant,...
by Jim Adair | Sep 10, 2018 | Featured, News
The Toronto Real Estate Board’s long-running battle with the Competition Bureau finally appears to be at an end, but there are still a lot of questions about how it will impact local boards and if more legal action is coming. The Supreme Court of Canada was TREB’s...
by Jim Adair | May 29, 2018 | News
REM’s publisher and founder Heino Molls is retiring after leading the publication and website for the last 29 years. His final Publisher’s Page appears here. Back in the early 1980s, Heino and I worked in side-by-side offices at the Toronto Real Estate Board (his was...
