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The Boom Years:
1945–1970

Real Estate Brokerage

TRREB Member Ram Rajendram speaks about making a contribution to Toronto as an industry:  “What I find fascinating about this business is you can be whoever you want to be, but you have to be authentic … So, I think one has to be true to oneself to figure out where your niche is and how you come across to people. And you have to ask questions to get that, how do you come across and you know what do people see in you?  And then try to play to those strengths, because it is a competitive business as well.  And so, if you bring something that is very authentic or is true to oneself that it feels to a specific buyer, they can sense that, right. There’s a purpose for authenticity in the world I think and that applies to everything, and real estate too.”

Did you know?

  • In 1965, Past President Harvey Keith made some predictions about life in the year 2000 that were published in the Toronto Star: “By 2000 AD, most people will be working a 25-hour week and bread-winners will think nothing of commuting 50 to 75 miles to work. Three of four families will own two homes, perhaps’ an apartment in the city and the country home 50 to 75 miles away.’”

1950s, photograph, City of Toronto Archives