Broker Update, March 7, 2025
Tell us how we're doing on GVR’s 2025 Member Survey
GVR is looking for your feedback in our 2025 Member Survey! Your thoughts are critical to ensure we always deliver products and services that benefit you and your business.
On Thursday, March 6, you received the survey in an email from Alec Milne of Framework Partners. They’re the survey company we’ve hired to gather your feedback in a confidential and professional manner.
I would greatly appreciate if you would share this link with the members in your office and encourage them to complete the survey.
To thank you for time, your name will be entered into a prize draw. Prizes include:
- one of five $100 Amazon gift cards, or
- one of a hundred $10 Tim Horton’s gift cards.
If you have questions, please email communications@gvrealtors.ca.
BCFSA Data Call report now available in Paragon
To help you collect data to complete the Real Estate Transaction Data Workbook for the BC Financial Services Authority’s (BCFSA's) 2025 Real Estate Brokerage Data Call, your association has put together a report in Paragon. You can find the report under the Inventory specialty search.
Get full details, instructions, and further guidance from BCFSA here.
If you have questions about the report or need help with it, contact our Help Desk at 604-730-3020 or email support@gvrealtors.ca.
Attend GVR's Annual General Meeting on March 27: One Special resolution up for vote
Greater Vancouver REALTORS® will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday, March 27, at the Delta Hotel Burnaby, 4331 Dominion Street in Burnaby. This is a hybrid event, meaning you can attend in person or virtually.
The AGM is a valuable opportunity for all members to gain insights into the latest trends and challenges affecting the real estate industry as well as the key strategic priorities that GVR is pursuing on your behalf.
Additionally, the AGM provides you with a voice in shaping your association’s future by voting on special resolutions that have been brought forward for your approval.
At this year’s meeting, members will be asked to approve one special resolution. Click here for the full background on this year's resolution.
Whether you’re attending in person or virtually, you need to register to attend. Register here.
I look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
Discuss the latest disciplinary decisions in your office
Stay on top of the work GVR does to uphold and enforce professional standards within the profession and resolve disputes between members.
Our Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) investigates alleged member breaches of the Realtor Code and our Rules of Cooperation. Review the PCC’s latest ruling (C24-32 Consent to Discipline).
Did you know GVR is partnering with Canada Post to offer discounted mailing services?
Your professional association is partnering with Canada Post to offer discounted rates on marketing mail services, including Precision Targeter Direct Mail.
This trial partnership will start in the coming weeks and will last one year. When the program launches, we’ll be able to offer a roughly 40 per cent discount on unaddressed mail, with addressed mail coming soon after.
Read our announcement to learn more.
Boost your brokerage with CREA's Brokerage Hub
Looking for an affordable way to enhance and streamline the educational resources you offer to the members in your office? The Canadian Real Estate Association’s (CREA’s) Brokerage Hub is a great way to enhance the training you provide!
The Brokerage Hub is a web platform tailored to you, the managing broker, built on CREA’s robust learning management system. It allows you to deliver personalized training directly to your REALTORS®.
You can offer enhanced course options to your agents by adding courses from participating local, provincial, and national boards and associations to your Brokerage Hub page.
With powerful tools at your fingertips, you can boost performance and streamline education at a fraction of the usual cost of this technology.
Get started by emailing CREA's Brokerage Hub Manager, Mike Lomond, at mlomond@crea.ca.