Yes,
CREA gives Brokerages the Option on 3rd Party sites but NOT fellow CREA member sites.
With the DDF,
CREA gives the brokerages the option to choose which third party sites they want their listings forwarded to.
Actually Marny I would humbly suggest that through the mandatory inclusion of ALL boards into the DDF (without a membership vote by the way) that yes
CREA gave the info away... just sayin:)
Up until
CREA gave away the privately held and privately paid - for MLS due to the coercive efforts of one Melanie Aitken, I, like most registrants at the time, was a naïve supporter of CREA; that ship has long since left the harbour and is slowly sinking on the seas of dues - payer discontent.
CREA gave the MLS system away by introducing MERE listings to posting brokerages while we the Realtors who supported the system for many many years with our fees are told we need to become more professional with courses that we are obligated to pay to maintain our licence.
I have been in this industry for 25 years now, and the changes to it have been fantastic but since
CREA gave us away, and after reading some of the comments of us «oldtimers» maybe its time to start planning our Exit Strategy and let the next generation who love the online courses take it over.
How can
CREA give The Mauricie board the assurance that For Sale by Owners will not appear on realtor.ca?
Don't you feel a little that
CREA gave up to much willingly, without a fight, to the whims of the Commissioner of the Competition Bureau.
I see why they are good for Realtysellers, they had a failing business model until the CB allowed them to hi - jack our business what's worse is
CREA gave them the keys!
Last year, a survey conducted for
CREA gave Realtors a slight edge over lawyers and insurance agents.
CREA gave Quebec $ 1.1 M for advertising?
Remember, as well, CREA has already removed rules so agents are now permitted to simply post a listing on MLS and do nothing more -
CREA gave up on that fight in March of this year.
Not exact matches
«We
give more per capita than any other profession,» says
CREA's Pierre Leduc.
It is an advertising website that The Canadian Real Estate Association (
CREA) created to
give REALTORS ® across Canada greater listing exposure to a national and international audience.
Given how 2016 played out, with significant drops in both the number of transactions and sale prices,
CREA anticipates double - digit drop in transactions (12.2 %) in 2017, which translates into an average price drop of 7.8 % in 2017.
The show is an ode to my mother, a show
given in her great and mighty name, the woman whose love and compassion
gave rise to my permanent sense of ambition, belief, and faith in the prospects of
crea
CREA / Boards apparently won't do it, so they have to step aside and leave it to someone more innovative to
give the public what they want.
To expedite proceedings, both sides in the dispute, as well as
CREA, which was granted intervener status in the appeal, were
given 15 days to file a proposed timetable for the pre-hearing steps.
Obviously TREB with 1/2
CREA members and payments does not have a Board of Directors legally to hand
CREA the tools which if they
give them to ComFREE they will be forced to
give them to
CREA one lawyer at at time.
Even if
CREA may not agree with what the bureau is saying, if they're willing to
give us some leeway and if we can live with what they're willing to accept, it just seems like the logical thing to do.
I find it funny that members constantly complain about
CREA and how little it provides yet they fail to simply walk away and
give up their membership.
I imagine that because I am retired from ORE and
given my attacks on
CREA herein over the past year, that
CREA would take my written (on paper) questions and burn them to a crisp, if they even read them.
The impact of the departure by the Quebec boards on membership levels will not be known for several weeks or months «
given the decision by many members to remain in
CREA,» the association says in the notice.
2) There is no such thing as an MLS database and
CREA has
given you repeated instructions to never refer to it as such.
Now they can allow FSBOS to: - advertise their listing on realtor.ca for $ 1 - have their direct phone number linked to realtor.ca - not be required to accurately complete their listing before posting -
give them access to Webforms with no expense to the FSBO companies -
give them access to
CREA and Provincial Real Estate Forms - use errors and ommission insurance paid for by 99,999 agents for free - the ability to infer to the public the unneed of professional agency to list a home
CREA has
given us the framework to develop our office policies and procedure manual.
Given this new development,
CREA will remove the offending listings this month.
«
Given the confusion created by the decision of some boards to separate and a recent decision of the OACIQ about the need to inform clients their listings will no longer appear on Realtor.ca / MLS.ca / ICX.ca,
CREA will work with members to accommodate these two issues,» says Leyser.
I sincerely doubt
given CREA's propensity to ram their agendas down our throats on the slightest of margins would have deferred if it is true that there was a «lot» of support for versus «some» not satisfied with a «couple» aspects.
Interesting hypothetical concept, but I doubt that the CREAcrats would redistribute their new found income to local boards, or to anywhere else for that matter, other than into their life -
giving CREA account.
CREA didn't
give our data away.
In short, I dispute everything M Juaneda asserts as reasons in his Declaration of Independence, I dispute the assertion that GMREB members have
given him a mandate to bluff and bluster for new / better terms of
CREA membership in conjunction with carte blanche to quit the national association and if unsuccessful in negotiating.
Re / Max has launched a new «state - of - the - art» website showing «the most extensive selection of homes listed for sale by Re / Max and co-operating brokers (through
CREA's new Data Distribution Facility),
giving consumers greater choice when shopping for real estate from coast - to - coast,» the company says.
At no time did any Franchise communicate or solicit input from the sale reps using their brands during these negotiations nor did
CREA or OREA ever provide a Contrarian assessment of business risk to the 109,000 about the consequences of these special consideration
given to non-registrant companies.
The «independentiste» Boards have held a vote which failed to
give the «desired result», have re-entered (half - hearted) re-negotiations starting from a dream - come - true, eat - their - cake - and - have - it - too position (and never conceding much of anything) and now are making blustery statements on abuse - of - process and historic - neglect by members from the Rest - of -
CREA and are making bold pronouncements about «quitting» (again) as apart of a demagogic warm - up to a 2nd one - member - one - vote plebiscite that (with hope) will actually be the final decision.
ca system of providing «for sale» information to the initiating, paying - for, maintaining members of said system,
giving the highjackers a
CREA - supported, unconstitutional, undeserving, competitive edge to their own back pockets on Realtors» backs for cheap, being all to the detriment of those who morally deserve to mainatin control of said information.
Finally
CREA has
given it's membership BAD, POOR and UNDER RESEARCHED advice since they made the first agreement with the CB out of fear.
And here we have the Competition Bureau demanding that TREB and
CREA collect and
give out private information about the clients of its real estate broker offices to whoever wants it.
The Case Schiller Index, NAR,
CREA and many other sources
give us a total summary of housing prices, units sold, average and median prices.
The fact that it's only
given in years where
CREA's Federal Affairs Committee deems that an individual deserves special recognition because of their initiative or effectiveness makes it that much more impressive.»
BTW:
CREA appears to be making NO money from
giving away our most valuable asset.
Why should the large brokerages be
given an advantage over the smaller if we are all members of
CREA.
Other than that, I do
give the
CREA a check mark for opening the door to communication to all of its 109,000 members.
The diplomatic corps at
CREA who are
giving our assets away should be recognized for the craven posers that they are.
Brian, like you, I feel the
CREA & OREAcrats will never
give up that gravy train until they take their last breath!
As for
CREA, kindly stay away from pursuing this, you've already
given away all the data on realtor.ca to 3rd party sites, undoubtedly you're looking at
given them the most intimate details also.
At least the bureaucrats
gave REM, thus its readers (
CREA's paying lifeline to its ongoing existence) the time of day for a change, if only on an annual basis.
It seems they are detached and apart, not really wanting to hear what Realtors have to say — and the last speech after the decision by the head of
CREA was a pathetic example of weak leadership,
giving in.
Well stated Larry, if I was running
CREA I would do the unthinkable,
give the Competition Bureau 2 weeks to restore Realtor.ca to licensed Realtor use only or we will shut it down and let the Competition Bureau deal with the enraged Canadian public.
I would just like an oppourtunity to opt out of
CREA without
giving up my access to local MLS.