View our Candidates for Election
March 30, 2017
This year, we have four candidates for election to our Board of Directors. Meet the candidates by reading their bios below:
Important By-law Updates Effective July 2025
Part 7—Conduct and Trade Practices and 8—Discipline of the
Commission By-law are being revised effective July 1, 2025.
For more information, click HERE.
March 30, 2017
This year, we have four candidates for election to our Board of Directors. Meet the candidates by reading their bios below:
March 17, 2017
Becoming a first time home owner is the result of making one of the largest financial transactions in your life and embarking on the exciting, though sometimes stressful and intimidating process of finding the right home for you. As a first-time home buyer, instead of simply hoping to stumble upon your very own pot of gold, it is best to prepare yourself as much as possible for this new chapter in your life.
March 13, 2017
Licensees know that selling property can be stressful on homeowners. After all, they are not just selling their property, but their home. Situations where there are short deadlines or competing offers may add stress to the matter, but it is crucial that the licensee continues to cross their t’s and dot their i’s.
What happens if you are representing a seller and you receive an offer on their property that is incorrectly completed?
March 3, 2017
There are times when a seller may ask to co-list a property with another brokerage. This could be in hopes of greater exposure, or for assurance that they will have support should they want to work with a smaller brokerage who may not have the means to cover when licensees are out of town.
When co-listing a property, there are small but important differences to the paperwork requirements. Those requirements depend on which brokerages are co-listing the property and what their agency models are.
February 7, 2017
When a consumer completes a brokerage agreement, service contract or purchase agreement with software to secure an electronic signature, and the signature field includes a date stamp, there is no requirement to fill in the ‘Dated’ line in the final section of the form.
For example, a signature provided by dotloop identifies the date and time the signature was placed on the form, as seen below.
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1.800.390.1016