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ComFREE in Lotusland
'Peg firm takes on Vancouver market
By CHRIS KITCHING, STAFF REPORTER

"Winnipeg-based ComFREE Real Estate -- Canada's largest private sales company -- is expanding into the country's steepest housing market. "

""Vancouver's market is about the same as Winnipeg in a way. It's slowing down (but) being Vancouver, of course, everything is hugely inflated by Winnipeg standards," Dunlop said. "It's a natural market for us. There isn't any market that isn't.""

"We're always going to grow, the MLS is always going to shrink," Dunlop said. "We're probably within a couple years of putting the MLS out of business in Edmonton, which would be the first time that's ever happened."

"Dunlop said ComFREE's franchise in Edmonton controls a third of the market in Alberta's capital city. It has made a bigger splash there than it has in Winnipeg, where it was founded a decade ago." Full Article.