by Shaneka Shaw Taylor | Apr 27, 2020 | Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
In Firepower Debt GP v. TheRedPin, the Ontario Court of Appeal grappled with the question of what happens to a real estate agent’s uncollected commissions when their real estate brokerage becomes insolvent. The brokerage, TheRedPin.Com Realty, had a roster of...
by Danny Kucharsky | Jun 20, 2018 | Featured, News, Technology
Tech disruptor real estate brokerages can survive and prosper but only if they have the right business models, says Romana King, director of content at Zolo. She was commenting on last week’s closure of TheRedPin, which shut its head office doors at Church and Front...
by Neil Sharma | Mar 1, 2017 | Featured, News
The issue of permitting virtual office websites (VOWs) to publicly display sold data – a property’s purchase history – is still before the courts, a years-long litigation between the Toronto Real Estate Board, CREA and the federal competition bureau. But with finality...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 17, 2017 | News
Toronto’s TheRedPin says January is one month this year that home buyers have a financial advantage in the highly competitive Greater Toronto Area housing market. The brokerage analyzed data from over 650,000 home sales between 2010 and 2016 and found that in...
by Tony Palermo | Jun 13, 2016 | Featured, News
The Toronto Real Estate Board is appealing the Competition Tribunals recent decision which found, in part, that TREB has engaged in anti-competitive acts. In an email statement to REM, TREB confirmed that they have filed a Notice of Appeal and are reviewing the...