by REM Editorial Team | Mar 24, 2010 | Featured, News
Georges Pahud assumed the presidency of the Canadian Real Estate Association this week in Ottawa, in the midst of the Competition Bureau’s challenge of CREA’s MLS rules. Although CREA made changes to its MLS access rules, the bureau says the changes are not...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 8, 2010 | Featured, News
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has assessed its first fine against a real estate brokerage. HomeLife Effect Realty in Hamilton was fined $27,000 for violating the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 15, 2010 | Boards & Associations, Featured, News
CREA president Dale Ripplinger spoke to REM’s senior editor Kathy Bevan late last week about what happens next. REM: When negotiations with the Competition Bureau were still underway, you used a real estate analogy to explain how things might go wrong,...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 15, 2010 | Featured
By Kathy Bevan The Competition Bureau’s decision to take CREA before the Competition Tribunal to determine the future of MLS access may not have been welcomed by CREA’s leadership team, but a vocal segment of the association’s membership fully supports the idea of...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 10, 2010 | Featured, Technology
By Randall M. Craig Social media is used by recruiters to look for “hidden” candidates and to disqualify inappropriate ones. It is used by sales reps to look for new prospects and connect better with existing ones. And it can be used by you to connect outward to those...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 8, 2010 | Featured, News
The Canadian Real Estate Association has responded to news that the Competition Bureau filed a legal challenge to strike down some of CREA’s rules relating to the MLS System in Canada, after talks aimed at a negotiated settlement failed. “CREA views the Commissioner’s...
