by REM Editorial Team | Nov 16, 2009 | Featured, News
Toronto-based Brookfield Residential Property Services has acquired Real Living Network Services, a real estate firm based in Columbus, Ohio, and will merge its GMAC Real Estate offices with Real Living in the U.S. Real Living does not have any Canadian offices, and...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 12, 2009 | Featured, News
Following a $100 million lawsuit that was served in September on CREA, the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) and a number of related association and board officers, REM has learned that a second lawsuit for $750 million has been filed – but not yet served – against...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 9, 2009 | Featured
Tyrel Hough and Torrey Hough work together, play together and beat the odds together. The brothers, sales reps with Platinum Realty Inc. in Kamloops, B.C. each got a hole in one, on the same day, and the same hole, one after the other. “We don’t know the exact odds,...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 8, 2009 | Featured, News
By Kathy Bevan Following a two-year inquiry by the federal government’s Competition Bureau that concluded some of CREA’s rules governing MLS access are anti-competitive, discussions to reach a settlement agreement between CREA and the bureau are ongoing. “At this...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 30, 2009 | Featured, Profiles
Sutton Group Realty Services opened its first real estate office in North Vancouver in 1983. By 1990, it was serving the Prairies; by 1992, it was operating in almost all of the provinces; two years later, the franchisor had expanded in Quebec. Now, as Sutton Group...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 23, 2009 | Featured
By Connie Adair As the saying goes, everything happens for a reason. One day sales rep Joe Clare of Re/Max North in Edmonton woke up with an image of colourful plumes of smoke rising from a building flashing in his mind. The image inspired him to commission a 16 x...
