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
Marv Beer
PRESIDENT
Royal LePage Access Real Estate
#2, 551 Trans-Canada Highway NE
P.O. Box 434, Salmon Arm, BC, V1E 4N6
Phone: 250-832-9997
Fax: 250-832-9935
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-517-8390
Michael Loewen
VICE PRESIDENT
Royal LePage Kelowna
#1 – 1890 Cooper Road
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 8B7
Phone: 250-860-1100
Fax: 250-860-0595
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-300-6541
Tanis Read
PAST PRESIDENT
Coldwell Banker Horizon Realty
#14 – 1470 Harvey Avenue
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 9K8
Phone: 250-860-7500
Fax: 250-868-2488
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-215-2121
Kim Heizmann
DIRECTOR
Century 21 Executives Realty Ltd.
2907 – 32nd Street
Vernon, BC, V1T 5M2
Phone: 250-549-2103
Fax: 250-549-2106
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-938-0995
Joe Pearson
DIRECTOR
RE/MAX Vernon
5603 – 27th Street
Vernon, BC, V1T 8Z5
Phone: 250-549-4161
Fax: 250-549-7007
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-550-5596
Kent Jorgenson
DIRECTOR
RE/MAX Kelowna
#100 – 1553 Harvey Ave
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 6G1
Phone: 250-717-5000
Fax: 250-861-8462
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-717-6579
Kim Davies
DIRECTOR
Business Finders Canada
1652 Pandosy Street,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 1P7
Phone: 250-491-1111
Fax: 778-484-3232
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-550-9364
Don Gagnon
DIRECTOR
Royal LePage Kelowna
#1 – 1890 Cooper Road
Kelowna, V1Y 8B7
Phone: 250-860-1100
Fax: 250-860-0595
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-870-0567
Dean Desrosiers
DIRECTOR
Century 21 Assurance Realty Ltd
251 Harvey Ave
Kelowna, V1Y 6C2
Phone: 250-869-0101
Fax: 250-869-0105
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-863-4707
Tina Cosman
DIRECTOR
Century 21 Executives Realty Ltd
105-650 Trans Canada Hwy
Salmon Arm, V1E 2S6
Phone: 250-833-9921
Email: [email protected]
Cell: 250-804-6765