by Jean Sorensen | May 24, 2016 | Boards & Associations, Featured, News
When the members of the British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) cast a ballot this summer to determine whether to dissolve the association plus its 11 associated boards in favour of a new provincewide professional standards entity called Realtors of B.C., the...
by Tony Palermo | Apr 11, 2016 | Featured, News
Significant deficiencies in how some salespeople and brokerages in the Vancouver area are handling their obligations under Canada’s anti-money laundering law has prompted Canada’s financial intelligence unit to increase the number of examinations it performs in the...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 23, 2016 | Boards & Associations, News
The Real Estate Council of British Columbia (RECBC) has appointed Marshall Cowe to serve for a three-year term on the Errors and Omissions Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. Cowe was first licensed in real estate in 1972 with Block Bros. Realty in Burnaby. In...
by Danny Kucharsky | Mar 14, 2016 | Featured, News
The self-regulating body that oversees the real estate business in British Columbia has to get tougher on Realtors who contravene regulations, says Tony Joe, president of the Vancouver chapter of the Asian Real Estate Association of America. “It takes a lot for...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 1, 2016 | News
An independent advisory group has been named to look into the Real Estate Council of B.C.’s handling of licensee misconduct, in the wake of a report from The Globe and Mail regarding the unethical and possibly illegal use of assignment clauses and “shadow...
