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Despite the tribunal’s 2016 ruling, it’s clear that the fight over TRREB’s data is far from over, says Subrata Bhattacharjee, a lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. “You have this skirmishing between the commissioner and TRREB,” he says. “Equally vigorously, the local brokers on the other side are trying to figure out the limitations of what the outcome of the litigation actually is. It’s not surprising that the parties are threatening loggerheads, even now.” According to lawyer Brian Facey, who represents TRREB and acted for the board on its competition case, the current clim...

However, after more than two years Toronto’s real estate industry is still struggling to navigate TRREB’s data sharing requirements, with some brokers and third-party operators finding themselves in the board’s compliance crosshairs. Real estate listings site Bungol fell afoul of TRREB in August over an alleged breach of the board's data rules. The home listings search engine said in a Nov. 4 blog post it had lost 95 per cent of its web traffic after TRREB suspended its data access, and now says its future is in "the hands of fate" as it awaits the results of a Dec. 14 professional stan...

Winnipeg Free Press By: Anita Balakrishnan, The Canadian Press Posted: Toronto-area homebuyers could be forgiven in 2016 for assuming the doors had been thrown open to the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board's sales data in the wake of a landmark ruling by the Competition Tribunal. A real estate sold sign is shown in a Toronto west end neighbourhood May 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy Toronto-area homebuyers could be forgiven in 2016 for assuming the doors had been thrown open to the Toronto Reg...

Anita Balakrishnan A real estate sold sign is shown in a Toronto west end neighbourhood May 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy December 29, 2020 - 11:01 AM Toronto-area homebuyers could be forgiven in 2016 for assuming the doors had been thrown open to the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board's sales data in the wake of a landmark ruling by the Competition Tribunal. After appeals by TRREB to overturn the ruling — which found that the board's restrictions on data use were anti-competitive — were turned down by the Federal Court of Appeal and Supreme Cou...