by REM Editorial Team | Nov 29, 2010 | Featured, News
By Don Procter Recent changes to the MLS rules may result in more flat fee brokerages but that’s no reason for traditional real estate companies to push the panic button. So says former Canadian real estate executive Sherry Chris, now CEO of Better Homes and Gardens...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 26, 2010 | Boards & Associations, Featured
After a six-month review of potential candidates, CREA announced that Gary Simonsen will become its next CEO when Pierre Beauchamp retires next spring. Well-known within organized real estate in Canada, Simonsen has been CREA’s chief operating officer since 2008,...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 24, 2010 | Featured
By Kathy Bevan Realtysellers has re-entered the Toronto area real estate market under the name Realtysellers Real Estate Inc., offering consumers a number of discounted real estate services, including an option to post listings on MLS for free. One of the firm’s...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 22, 2010 | Featured
Countering the contention by the Competition Bureau that CREA’s MLS access rules were anti-competitive has consumed most of CREA president Georges Pahud’s term in office. Pahud recently spoke with REM senior editor Kathy Bevan about the Consent Agreement between CREA...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 19, 2010 | Featured, Profiles
By Dennis McCloskey The person who first said, “it takes two men to make one brother” could have been describing Richard and Alex Pilarski, the broker/owner siblings of Re/Max Realtron Realty, with seven real estate offices in the Greater Toronto Area and a head...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 17, 2010 | Featured
By Jean Sorensen B.C. Re/Max Performance Realtor Leah Bach grew up around the water, lived in a floating home, met her husband in a floating home community and today sells units in her father John deWaal’s “bare land” strata development Queensgate Marina, at the...
