by REM Editorial Team | May 27, 2019 | Featured, Letters to the Editor
Re: Is it time for CREA to hire a lobbyist? The myths presented in the letter are erroneous. We don’t host cocktail parties. We have made over a dozen submissions on FINTRAC. We advocate regularly on the stress test. When it comes to lobbying expertise, CREA is ranked...
by Jim Adair | Dec 17, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Michael Bourque, CEO of the Canadian Real Estate Association, doesn’t like the term “organized real estate”. He says the staff at CREA’s Ottawa offices no longer use it, because they know he doesn’t like it. “You’ve got organized labour and organized crime and I don’t...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 26, 2018 | Technology
CREA has partnered with Lone Wolf Technologies to provide a new version of CREA WEBForms that includes unlimited document storage, forms, MLS integration and agent-level transaction management. “Our members’ business needs have changed since the creation of CREA...
by Jim Adair | Nov 19, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
It’s been a lively year for the real estate industry in Canada, marked by declining real estate sales and affordability challenges for buyers. A Supreme Court decision sealed the Competition Bureau’s victory in its long-running dispute with TREB and CREA, and a vote...
by REM Editorial Team | Nov 7, 2018 | Boards & Associations
CREA recently hosted 77 developers and programmers for a Realtor.ca “hackathon” to seek ideas that will improve the website. “Amazing things can happen when talented and passionate people come together with a common goal,” says Barb Sukkau, president of CREA. “CREA...
