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Competition Bureau Shakes Up Multiple Listing Service (MLS)®

November 3, 2009 By George O'Neill 3 Comments

Episode 138 of the daily Toronto Real Estate Musing video blog. George O’Neill discusses the recent Canadian Competition Bureau ruling that the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) needs to make changes to open up access to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)®.

If you are interested in Beach or downtown Toronto real estate or wish to discuss this topic further, please email George@GeorgeONeill.ca or leave a comment below.

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About George O'Neill
George O'Neill is CEO and Broker of Record at O'Neill Real Estate Limited. Prior to founding this business, George worked for over twenty years as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Consulting and for leading Canadian and U.S. companies including Hydro One, Spar Aerospace, McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) and the Manufacturing Technology Centre in business development, marketing, sales and technology roles.George holds Master and Bachelor Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) as well as an MBA Degree from Queen's University. Active in the local community, George supports various charities and organizations and sits on various Boards including two private corporations and three not-for-profit organizations. George was an adjunct professor in Economics at Humber College for years and is founder of Real Estate Technology Toronto (RETechTO), Ontario's largest digital marketing discussion group for real estate professionals, and is founder of the annual Social Media Marketing Summit for Real Estate.George is an author, video blogger, sought after speaker and recognized as a thought leader in the real estate industry. He is pleased the majority of his business is based on repeat clients and referrals, and loves to spend time with his growing family.

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  1. thenonconformer says:
    February 8, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    I had worked for AE LePage Realtors and shortly had quit when I had found out about their much too common scams, false, immoral, restrictive trade practises they are involved in.

    1: They tend to consciously encourage new persons to join the firms and systematically lay them off.. they use the new employees for new real estate sales contacts, and local managers tend to pass on all the sale inquires to established existing sales personnel and the rookies get no financial benefit from their own hard work, input..

    2: On their weekly homes for sale open homes visits by the staff, they only visit their own listings and discourage sales at any of the competitors listings.. they try to encourage their staff to only buy and sell their own listings. Hoping to double the commissions earnings.

    3 And they also often clearly do lie to their customers about the actual type of sales presentations they will do for them too. Newspaper ads are the most effective approach but they are too cheap to pay for too many of them.. http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/competition-bureau-seeks-to-smash-%e2%80%98anti-competitive-crea-rules-on-mls/

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