About Us
Supporting REALTORS® and home buyers and sellers in the community.
A strong and active professional association, the Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board (OMREB) supports its REALTOR® Members to serve consumers throughout the region of Peachland to Revelstoke.
OMREB is dedicated to providing leadership and support to its members in their pursuit of professional excellence:
- Advocating on behalf of the profession and to add value to consumers
- Providing resources and professional development to its REALTOR® Members and
- Fostering and enforcing a high standard of quality and professionalism with its REALTOR® Members.
Through advocacy, support and regulation, OMREB contributes to the reasons why working with a REALTOR® is the right choice for residents navigating the real estate market.
Our Mission and Vision
Mission Statement: An Association of REALTORS® pursuing professional excellence
Vision Statement: The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board provides visionary leadership that continually enhances REALTOR® professionalism and positively shapes the profession and its contribution to consumers and the communities we serve.
Our Corporate Values
- Ethical: We behave according to high moral standards and in accordance with the Association’s rules of conduct and ethics.
- Collaboration: We are committed to working in partnership with our Board, Staff, Membership, other real estate boards and other partners.
- Adaptable: We are flexible, innovative and able to change ideas and behaviours to deal with new situations.
- Accountability: We value results and measure our performance against our goals, we take ownership and responsibility for doing what we say we will do.
- Integrity: We achieve our goals by maintaining the highest degree of ethical standards and by putting our values into action.
- Excellence: We strive to provide the highest quality governance of the Association and the highest quality programs and services to our members and the community.
Ongoing Professional Development
The Okanagan Real Estate Board not only provides valuable resources and professional development opportunities for its members, but encourages and enforces a high standard of quality and professionalism in the work of REALTORS® in order to protect homeowners and offer peace of mind.
Through advocacy, support and regulation, OMREB contributes to the reasons why working with a REALTOR® is the right choice for residents navigating the real estate market.
Board of Directors
Kim Heizmann
PRESIDENT
Dean Desrosiers
VICE-PRESIDENT
Michael Loewen
PAST-PRESIDENT
Maria Besso
DIRECTOR
Don Gagnon
DIRECTOR
Brad Marsh
DIRECTOR
Joe Pearson
DIRECTOR
Jerry Redman
DIRECTOR
Blake Roberts
Director
Karen Singbeil
DIRECTOR
Bob Wood
DIRECTOR
OMREB Administrators
George Greenwood
Chief Executive Officer
Sonja Harkness
Chief Operating Officer
Gurjit Chand
Operations Manager
Karen Henderson
Executive Administrator
Joleen Polak
Member Engagement Lead
Stacey Huculiak
Member Engagement Associate,
Products and Support Services
Sue Campbell
Member & IT Support
Thomas Gray
Trainer & Member Support
Celeste de Muelenaere
Communications Coordinator
Dalia Gonzalez
Manager of Finance & Accounting
John Adolf
Professional Standards Coordinator
Shelley Hein
Business Practices Administrator
Code of Ethics and Standards of Business Practice
The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board is committed to fostering a high level of professionalism among its Members.
Click here for details on the Code of Ethics and Standards of Business Practice to which members of the Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board subscribe.
If you think your REALTOR® hasn’t conducted him or herself in accordance with this Code of Ethics, please find advice on how to proceed by clicking on this link.
