Alan Tennant, an associate broker with Re/Max Rocky View in Airdrie, Alta, is CREA’s 59th president.
Tennant has been a director
of the association for six years. As chair of the MLS and Technology
Council, he also served as the MTC representative on the board, and he
worked on the CREA Strategic Planning Committee and other task forces
and committees.
Tennant [...]

Royal LePage Relocation Services (RLRS) has launched Canada’s first purchase card specifically designed for relocations.
 
The customized American
Express Corporate Purchasing Card includes a declining balance feature,
which means the card is loaded with a pre-determined amount that
relocating employees can draw on for their out-of-pocket expenses, the
company says. The card eliminates some of the financial inconveniences
normally passed off [...]

Broker Daryl Spires and his associate Tim Eagan, operators of an established independent in New Brunswick, recently converted their office from Guy R. Day & Sons to Exit Realty Day’s.  Spires
says his salespeople are his top priority, and that by using the Exit
strategy his people will have better opportunities to secure their
financial future.
Spires says he [...]

Donald Bentley has been
appointed president of international organizations for FIABCI
International and as main delegate to the United Nations in New York.
Bentley, broker/manager for Royal LePage Real Estate Services in Toronto, serves as an international director of FIABCI and is also a director of the Toronto Real Estate Board.  He served as president of FIABCI-Canada [...]

Your last two articles are right on with respect to commercial sales.  Commercial buyers and sellers usually know more about the property or business than the Realtor, and certainly do not need our “advocacy”.
Deals would be so much simpler if we took away the advocacy role and focused on the basics like full and complete [...]

Century 21 Dome Realty has opened a new branch office in Regina Beach, Sask. The community is one of the most recognized resorts in the province.
 “The Regina Beach location is central to the rural locations we are focusing on at this time,” says   Keith
Short, branch manager of the new office. “The branch office is located
right [...]

Re/Max International reports
that 2005 ended with 114,417 sales associates in the network,
representing a 13.9 per cent growth for a net gain of 13,925.  Franchise
sales of 1,078 topped the previous year’s record of 1,032 and by year’s
end 6,149 franchised offices were operating – an increase of 13.8 per
cent. Re/Max had also expanded its reach to 10 [...]

Darrell
Paysen of Sutton Group – Resource Realty was elected president of the
Vancouver Island Real Estate Board recently. He says his job as a
president is to “get the message out that as part of organized real
estate, we are doing good things for the public as well. We are the
voice toward different levels of government and we [...]

Members of
the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) recently elected a new team
of officers, voted in favour of a compulsory professional development
program (PDP) and presented their most prestigious annual award.
 
The 2006 recipient of the John Armeneau Professional of the Year award is David Herman of Re/Max 2000 in Surrey.
This award is the highest honour the [...]

A new website developed with funding from the Alberta Real Estate Foundation provides Alberta
landlords with online access to legal information about the province’s
recently revised Residential Tenancy Act. Written in every day English
and an easy-to-use format, the website was developed by the University of Alberta Legal Studies Program.
Thirty per cent of all Alberta
properties are rentals, creating [...]