Brandon Donnelly If you read our first blog post from last week ( What is Dirt? ), you probably started thinking: do we really need a social community for real estate consumers? Why can’t we leverage existing social networks, and continue to rely on industry experts and existing resources to help us understand…
Locked in a battle with the Competition Bureau, the country’s largest real estate board said it couldn’t share client data because it would put the public in danger. Problem is, they’ve had to admit that that information is already being freely shared with the public. By realtors.
Matt Gurney: Realtors declare themselves threat to public safety
“While the Toronto board allows real estate agents to provide information – such as the number of days a house has been on the market and previous selling prices – by hand, telephone or e-mail, they are not allowed to create websites where customers can look up the information on their own.”
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