by REM Editorial Team | Sep 21, 2011 | Boards & Associations, Featured
Interview by Toby Welch REM: You’ve been the CEO at CREB since 1987? Ron Esch: I started here in July 1987 and replaced someone who became a real icon in this industry – Frank Johns was here for 33 years. We are the only two people who have ever been CEOs of this...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 19, 2011 | Featured
By Marty Douglas Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, thanks for joining us on this tour of the Canadian Real Estate Museum, located in the instant town of (pick one of Kitsault, Ocean Falls, Dakota Ridge, Inverhuron, Saint-Jérôme), created from the leftover broken...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 16, 2011 | Featured
A new report by Re/Max Ontario-Atlantic Canada says rising agricultural commodity values and tight inventory levels have “seriously contributed to a significant upswing in the price of Ontario farmland in 2011.” The report says there are inventory shortages with...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 15, 2011 | Featured, News
The Toronto Real Estate Board has filed a motion to have the legal firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP removed as solicitors of record for Realtysellers Real Estate in the Competition Tribunal case between TREB and the Competition Bureau. TREB says that Gowlings was...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 14, 2011 | Featured, News
By Melanie Epp Century 21 Canada president and CEO Don Lawby says he is pleased with a court’s decision regarding the lawsuit the company filed against real estate aggregate site Zoocasa.com in December 2008. In its claim, Century 21 accused Zoocasa, a subsidiary of...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 12, 2011 | Featured
When something happens to a TV producer, it’s not surprising when the experience becomes the subject of a reality show. Catherine May of W Network’s The Agents sold her house. She was fascinated by the agents’ open house, when 30 real estate agents looked at her house...