by Danny Kucharsky | Oct 31, 2017 | Featured, News, Technology
Zillow Group will begin accepting Canadian home listings next year on its U.S. consumer real estate sites, including Zillow.com and Trulia.com. The goal is “to get exposure for Canadian listings with the U.S. audience, more so than creating a Canadian experience for...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 23, 2017 | Boards & Associations, News
A group of 13 Ontario real estate boards, which calls itself The Ontario Collective, recently launched the first phase of an enhanced regional MLS System. The system uses the CoreLogic Matrix platform, which is currently used by 670,000 MLS users across North America,...
by Jim Adair | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured, News
A report commissioned by CREA tells Canadian real estate professionals not to be paranoid and then identifies 36 potential threats to real estate salespeople, brokers, boards and associations and the MLS System. Presented at CREA’s AGM in March, the D.A.N.G.E.R....
by Michel Friedman | Aug 20, 2015 | Featured, Guest Columns
The new Ontario Bill-55 has been created to solve the growing problem of phantom offers in our industry – in particular in Toronto’s hot real estate market. The thing about phantom offers is they are illegal. They are used strictly to fraudulently drive up the price...
by Chris Seepe | Feb 4, 2015 | Featured, Guest Columns
Apologies in advance to non-Ontario readers, but maybe this provincial experience has a national ring to it. A Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) news release summarized its recent survey: “… almost half (45 per cent) of first-time buyers and 41 per cent of...
