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Richard Silver (Photo: Geoff Parkin)
The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Board of Directors has authorized a Virtual Office Website (VOW) process that it says will yield members “the ability to raise a portfolio of services offering for a advantage of their customers.” It will “allow consumers to entrance member’s secure password-protected websites to hunt MLS inventory data, while during a same time carrying a advantage of a Realtor member’s oversight, supervision, and accountability,” a house says.
The process is during a heart of a censure filed by a Competition Bureau opposite TREB. The business says that a process will “impose obligations and restrictions on member brokers who wish to work VOWs that are not imposed on normal brokers and that a manners “entrench and continue a normal ‘bricks and mortar’ business indication for providing real estate brokerage services.”
Richard Silver, boss of TREB, says, “This new and sparkling process will boost foe within a system, while many importantly safeguarding consumers’ private information. It strikes a change between consumer remoteness concerns, a insurance of consumer rights and fostering competition.”
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