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The Rise of Corporate Toronto:
1970–2000

More to Real Estate Sales than Showing Houses

An excerpt from the Real Estate News describes the life of a REALTOR® in the 1980s: “The salesperson won’t get an offer every day, but when they do, working until midnight is not uncommon. Otherwise, the average workday comes to an end around 8 p.m. This hectic schedule is carried out six days a week.”

Did you know?

  • TRREB and Metro Toronto cosponsored the Toronto Urban Issues Summit (1997). TRREB helped to lobby the provincial government to successfully stop municipalities from licensing real estate agents. In addition, TRREB was invited to join the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance, a public-private partnership promoting GTA investment and job creation (1999)

1989, newspaper article, Real Estate News, TRREB Archives