Calgary council members split on proposed real estate registry

The mayor and an alderman are at loggerheads over how much property disclosure council members must be subjected to as changes to ethics rules loom at city hall.

Ald. Gord Lowe said he doesn’t have any trouble with a real estate registry revealing properties that bear his name, including those that he may co-own with his wife and/or children, but the ones his family owns independently are “out of bounds.”

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The silent revolution inside the IMF

The IMF, at long last, is becoming at long last a much more open institution. Gone are the days when the institution acted as a handmaiden of Western – and mainly U.S.– economic orthodoxy. It is even throwing a gauntlet down to the mighty U.S. Federal Reserve, questioning the effects its constant monetary boosting has on the rest of the world.

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Status quo to prevail in disclosure of realty pricing in Edmonton

EDMONTON – Realtors and their clients will still be able to access current local real estate sales data after a contentious pricing disclosure policy was voted down.

The board of the Realtors Association of Edmonton on Wednesday rescinded a new reporting policy, set to launch Dec. 1, that would have blocked public access to sales information for Multiple Listing Service properties until the deals closed, sometimes months after a purchase agreement is reached. No reason for the change was announced.

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