by REM Editorial Team | Feb 27, 2008 | Profiles
Interview by Kathy Bevan This year one of Canada’s largest real estate organizations celebrates its 95th anniversary. From its beginnings as the one-office business of Toronto entrepreneur A.E. LePage, to its position within Brookfield Real Estate Services, Royal...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 24, 2007 | News, Profiles
Working at all levels of real estate in Ontario, David Rossi helped write the Real Estate Council of Ontario’s Code of Ethics. He says Realtor ethics are improving but there’s still some work to be done. Interview by Kathy Bevan At the 2007 Toronto Real Estate...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 23, 2007 | Profiles
When Steve Morris launched Exit in Canada in the fall of 1996, he introduced a new real estate concept – single-level residuals. Exit sales reps could earn 10 per cent of the broker’s portion of the commissions earned by a salesperson they had introduced...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 2, 2006 | Boards & Associations, News, Profiles
CREA president Gerry Thiessen has been a Realtor since 1977, first in the west coast port of Prince Rupert and then moving into B.C.’s interior community of Vanderhoof. Past-president of both the Cariboo Real Estate Board (now B.C. Northern REB) and the B.C. Real...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 1, 2002 | Boards & Associations, News, Profiles
On December 24, the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) unwrapped its new MLS system. Since then, the new system has been operating in tandem with Trebnet until TREB feels the new system can fully handle the demands of Canada’s largest board, which includes almost...