by Joseph Richer | Jul 19, 2019 | Featured, Guest Columns
The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) is a modern regulator, and modern regulation is all about preventing problems from occurring in the first place. RECO can’t oversee every single transaction, so one prevention strategy is to educate consumers and real estate...
by Joseph Richer | Jun 18, 2019 | Featured, Guest Columns
Everyone agrees that consumers have more information about real estate transactions at their disposal than ever before, and that has led to higher expectations for brokers and salespeople, and for the Real Estate Council of Ontario as the industry’s Ontario regulator....
by Joseph Richer | May 16, 2019 | Featured, Guest Columns
Have you ever wondered how successful companies manage to attain greatness? Author Jim Collins studied over 1,400 established firms for his book, Good to Great, and he discovered the secret isn’t money, technology or even fear of failure, but rather steadfast...
by REM Editorial Team | May 6, 2019 | News
The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) has frozen the bank accounts of Reio Realty Ltd. in Niagara Falls, Ont. RECO says freeze orders are invoked, when required, to prevent funds from being withdrawn from a brokerage’s accounts, in order to protect consumer...
by REM Editorial Team | Apr 23, 2019 | Boards & Associations
The rights of real estate salespeople and brokers in Ontario to transact short-term rental accommodations have been affirmed after the Real Estate Council of Ontario issued a bulletin last week. “By virtue of being registered to trade in real estate, registrants are...
