A day after BC’s real estate watchdog promised changes to make purchasing a home in this province more transparent for buyers and sellers. Calls tonight for another change to empower consumers. Right now only realtors can see the full database of available homes. But some say there’s no good reason that information should not be available to everybody.
What you see in the MLS is only part of a much larger database accessible only by licenced realtors.
The real estate board of Vancouver is threatening to sue ThinkPol, an online site that claims a realtor gave it access to some of that confidential information. ThinkPol alleges that information reveals 25% of a prominent development was pre-sold to Asian buyers. But that information is unconfirmed.
Paul Doroshenko:
“The reason that they’re withholding this information is that they don’t want the discussion to be out there they don’t want people to actually know what is taking place.”
Watch Paul Doroshenko’s interview on Global News at 6:
https://globalnews.ca/news/1149299/watch-news-hour/