To celebrate 25 years of serving Canada’s real estate community, REM asked a small group of real estate leaders this question:
Scott Shaw, November 2009
“Who had the biggest impact – good or bad – on Canadian real estate in the last 25 years?
This is not a popularity contest or a marketing exercise. We want to know who you think had the biggest impact on the industry in the last 25 years – even if it was, in your opinion, a negative impact. Your choices could include Realtors, company executives, association executive officers, regulators, service company executives….even politicians! Who has had the most impact during the last 25 years in making the industry what it is today?”
REM took those consensus picks and added our own and the results will be revealed on REM online every day until the end of June. Take a look and see if you agree with these choices, and then let us know who we missed. Add your comments below or drop an email to [email protected].
Scott Shaw
The first Sutton Group office in Canada – Sutton Group West Coast Realty in North Vancouver, B.C. – has evolved to become the largest real estate brokerage in Canada as ranked in the annual Real Trends Canadian 250 report.
Sutton says it was the first real estate company in Canada to have a website – in 1995 – and the first to provide each agent with their own website and email address.
Sutton president and CEO Scott Shaw oversees the company’s 8,700 sales reps in more than 200 offices across the country. He told REM in a November 2009 interview that although the use of technology has made it easier for agents to connect with clients, “what social media tools are doing is not new – they’re just using certain technology to do what Realtors have been doing for a very long time. That’s because basically, the real estate business is a networking business.
“It doesn’t really matter if you’re using technology to meet up with your client, or using the good old-fashioned method of driving up to the community centre or to the church to meet them. The end result is exactly the same.”
