by Trevor Koot | Jan 12, 2026 | Columnists
Technology has always moved and, I believe, will always move faster than organizations and industries can adapt. Two reasons this happens are that existing infrastructure is costly and burdensome to replace, and the human factor. As organizations in all fields feel...
by REM Editorial Team | Dec 31, 2025 | Community, Good Works, News
Julie Bowser, Christian Twomey, Bryan Goehringer, Bjorn Johansson, Nick Profeta and Colleen Whelan/CREB Each month, REM shares the charitable works and good deeds of Realtors across Canada. Have something you’d like to share? Email your news to...
by Courtney Zwicker | Dec 11, 2025 | News
Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) has frozen the accounts of Scarborough-based brokerage HomeLife Today Realty Ltd. after discovering a trust account shortfall of $580,000. In a public advisory issued Wednesday, RECO said it identified a potential shortfall as...
by Courtney Zwicker | Dec 8, 2025 | News
The B.C. Financial Services Authority (BCFSA) has started a discussion on new approaches pertaining to real estate commissions, disclosures, bidding wars and more, and while there’s a consensus around the goal of protecting consumers, professionals in the field are...
by Marty Douglas | Dec 3, 2025 | Boards & Associations, Columnists
Trevor Koot, BC Real Estate Association CEO (and, full disclosure, my boss’s boss’s boss), recently wrote in REM, “I’m sure every one of the roughly 150,000 Realtors across Canada can point to a happenstance, coincidence, or fluke that contributed to where they are...
