Real Estate Board Formed in Toronto

This October 6, 1920, article is the first mention in print of the establishment of the Toronto Real Estate Board. From the very outset of operations, the Board was dedicated to “raising the standard of efficiency in the real estate business, and protecting the properties of all owners in the city by combined action.” R. B. Rice was the first President, and J. B. Laidlaw the first Executive Secretary.

TRREB has come a long way from its humble beginnings: “TREB’s first headquarters was a desk space and a filing cabinet in a little office at 46 King Street West in the old Canada Life building … It soon became too small to cope with the volume of business and in 1925 larger quarters were obtained in the Union Trust building at the northwest corner of Victoria and Richmond Street.”