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Working Together for the Benefit of All Dan, Susan, Brenda, and Wayne
• D aniel Boisvert is President of the BC Notaries Association. • Susan Antoniali is President of the Real Estate Institute of BC. • B renda Southam is Executive Officer of the Real Estate Institute of BC. • W ayne Braid is Interim CEO of the BC Notaries Association. Recorded August 2019, In Conversation with Val Wilson, Editor-in-Chief of The Scrivener THE SCRIVENER: Brenda, when did REIBC start up and why? BRENDA: REIBC was started in 1962 as a way for people, mainly REALTORS®, to acquire more education for their licensing requirements. Individuals became RIs when they took the Urban Land Economics diploma from UBC.
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By the early ‘80s, to become an RI you still needed the Urban Land Economics diploma that now includes five different specialties. REALTORS® do not need to be an RI to get a real estate licence.
REIBC offers frequent online education sessions to help keep people stay on top of what's happening in real estate. WAYNE: The Urban Land Economics part of the program is still running at UBC. Some of our BC Notaries have qualified for the RI designation because they have taken the Urban Land program at UBC.
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plus associate members and nominee members. About 850 all together . . . and some honourary members, of course. THE SCRIVENER: Does your membership number remain constant? BRENDA: Over the last 5 years, it has. And as with every other “association” today, we are working hard to bring in new people to become engaged in the organization and with our diverse real estate professional members. THE SCRIVENER: Please tell us about your RI education program.
THE SCRIVENER: How many RI members do you have?
BRENDA: UBC runs the Urban Land Economics program that takes anywhere from 2 or more years to complete. REIBC offers frequent online education sessions to help people stay on top of what's happening in real estate. REIBC provides education and industry update webinars during the year; this year there were 10.
BRENDA: It's a small community of professionals with about 650 professional members
Eighty to 90 per cent of our members are completing continuing education because that's who they are. They like to stay sharp and current.
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