Author name: WECARNEWS

The real estate industry is built on forming relationships: with your broker and fellow agents, along with prospective, current and past clients. REALTORS® often find themselves working face-to-face with strangers, in unfamiliar or remote locations. This can mean REALTORS® are put into vulnerable positions at times, so it’s important we empower members to make safety

Demand for housing in most Canadian markets continues to outpace supply and increasingly, disappointed buyers and REALTOR® members are voicing their frustration to the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) and provincial regulators about the use of advertised listing prices that bear no reasonable relationship to a selling price a seller may be prepared to accept in

Significant changes to Canada’s FINTRAC Regime are scheduled to come into force on June 1, 2021. Key changes include: A new obligation to determine whether a client is a politically exposed person or head of an international organization. A new obligation to obtain beneficial ownership information from corporate and other entity clients. A new obligation

On May 20, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) announced it will move forward with a proposed new qualifying rate for uninsured mortgages, reinforcing the mortgage underwriting principles outlined in Guideline B-20. As of June 1, 2021, the qualifying rate for all uninsured mortgages should be the greater of the mortgage contractual

Every child should have the opportunity to go Back to School with everything they need to begin a successful school year. The Windsor-Essex County Association of REALTORS® (WECAR) together with the Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Foundation (WECAF) invites you join us in assuring that over 800 children and youth that the Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Society supports

Getting REALTORS® access to vaccines as part of the Province’s vaccination plan is a priority for OREA. Over the last two months, OREA has met with senior officials on the Province’s vaccine taskforce. In addition, they have been in regular communication with political decision makers on the issue in an effort to educate officials in