Not exact matches
The Commissioner of
Competition, the federal agency tasked with advocating for the rights of Canadian consumers, won their abuse of dominance
case against the Toronto Real
Estate Board (TREB) after fighting for years to have sales data made accessible to the public.
He has built a distinctly diverse practise, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in cutting edge
competition cases and class actions, as well as all manner of business disputes, including corporate, contract, securities, fraud and malfeasance, real
estate, and international litigation.
Although we do not prosecute or defend medical malpractice
cases, our litigators work closely with our health care lawyers to provide first class, sophisticated and practical representation and dispute resolution counseling in a broad range of matters, including corporate governance, securities, reimbursement, breach of contract, real
estate, theft of confidential and trade secret information, unfair
competition, intellectual property and employment.
The Toronto Real
Estate Board
Competition Tribunal hearing began with TREB presenting its
case for Chief Justice Paul Crampton's recusal.
Should it be the
case that the
Competition Bureau of Canada's interventions into organized Real
Estate have had any bearing whatsoever on the Provincial Regulatory authorities pursuing their duties with the appropriate resolve and vigor, then it would stand as the most eloquent of evidence as to why CREA needed to fight the right fight and explain fully what was right, about organized Real
Estate in Canada!
\ you sound like a real staunch supporter of Ms. Aitken and oufits like the
Competition Bureau who rides the white horse and rescues the damsels in distress (the public in this
case) with as Brian Martindale put it endless amounts of our money and time to for all intent and purposes keep organized real
estate in line, if you Joe Consumer want to sell your home privately and feel that you are being disadvantaged by organized real
estate, then I wish you and anyone in consumerland all the best, in your words you have choices, as do we, it just seems you sound a little slanted, but of course you could appeal that opionion!!!
Finally, the transaction provided a featured
case project for the Villanova Real
Estate Challenge, a national development case competition for students from top real estate programs across the co
Estate Challenge, a national development
case competition for students from top real
estate programs across the co
estate programs across the country.
Such was the
case early during the third day of the
Competition Tribunal hearing between The Commissioner of
Competition and the Toronto Real
Estate Board, as TREB lawyer Donald Affleck revealed that the
Competition Bureau's lead witness, Viewpoint Realty, has been the subject of about two dozen annual complaints concerning privacy.
REM: As much as you and your leadership team want to focus on determining the future of organized real
estate, the Competition Bureau's constant focus on this industry continues to impact CREA's agenda — a case in point was CREA's recent request for intervener status in the bureau's action against the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) and its Virtual Office Website (VOW) pol
estate, the
Competition Bureau's constant focus on this industry continues to impact CREA's agenda — a
case in point was CREA's recent request for intervener status in the bureau's action against the Toronto Real
Estate Board (TREB) and its Virtual Office Website (VOW) pol
Estate Board (TREB) and its Virtual Office Website (VOW) policies.
While CREA officials won't comment on the ongoing
Competition Tribunal
case involving the Toronto Real
Estate Board's MLS policies, Aunger says that regardless of how that
case turns out, CREA intends to maintain realtor.ca as «the No. 1 website in Canada.»
Does anyone know the outcome of the recent TREB Tribunal filing concerning: «The
Competition Bureau is opposed to granting CREA leave to intervene in its
Competition Tribunal
case against the Toronto Real
Estate Board.»
The
Competition Bureau is opposed to granting CREA leave to intervene in its
Competition Tribunal
case against the Toronto Real
Estate Board (TREB), but it supports allowing Realtysellers Real
Estate intervener status.
If that is that is the
case, you would not remember that in 1988 CREA and the entire real
estate industry agreed to a court order called the Prohibition Order to stop unlawful conduct after the
competition bureau got involved.
The
Competition Tribunal has set June 30 to hear motions for leave to intervene in the Commissioner of
Competition v. Canadian Real
Estate Association
case.
If you have a legitimate
case of someone blacklisting you because of commission offered you could document the circumstances and take it to your local real
estate board / commission /
competition bureau, etc. instead of widely attacking professional real
estate agents as a whole.
Melanie Aikin, the head of the Canadian
Competition Bureau has spent the past couple years trying to make the
case that many elements of the business of licensed real
estate are monopolistic and detrimental to the public at large.
On the surface, this
case is meant to determine if Canada's largest real
estate board has abused its market dominance, as has been suggested by both former
Competition Commission Melanie Aitken and a major study by a U.S. economist that says TREB is trying to protect traditional GTA realtors from new competition to protect the $ 2.2 billion they made in commissions
Competition Commission Melanie Aitken and a major study by a U.S. economist that says TREB is trying to protect traditional GTA realtors from new
competition to protect the $ 2.2 billion they made in commissions
competition to protect the $ 2.2 billion they made in commissions last year.
Toronto Real
Estate Board accused of abusing its power and hurting consumers in
Competition Tribunal
case
He says his
case finally attracted the attention of the
competition bureau, which argued in its application to the tribunal that the restrictions placed on the use of MLS «have virtually eliminated suppliers of fee - for - service real
estate brokerage services in Canada.»
In
case you missed the headlines earlier this week, after a two - year investigation into Canada's real
estate brokerage industry, the Competition Bureau concluded that Multiple Listing Service (MLS) rules established by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) restrict consumer choice and limit the scope of alternative business m
estate brokerage industry, the
Competition Bureau concluded that Multiple Listing Service (MLS) rules established by the Canadian Real
Estate Association (CREA) restrict consumer choice and limit the scope of alternative business m
Estate Association (CREA) restrict consumer choice and limit the scope of alternative business models.
The last - minute legal filing by TREB — just two weeks before a
competition tribunal hearing into what the commissioner has alleged are anti-competitive practices by the country's largest real
estate board — is seen as a stalling tactic that has the potential to divert the long - standing
case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.