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SUMMARY:2025 March Monthly Networking Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Vancouver Island Real Estate Board\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAbout VIREB: \n\nThe Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB) is a not-for-profit\, member-based association with over 1\,000 REALTORS  who live and work in communities from the top of the Malahat to the northern tip of Vancouver Island. The board advances and promotes the interests of those engaged in the business of real estate. We represent our members? and the public?s concerns on issues involving legislation and the vitality of our communities at all levels of government.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nJASON YOCHIM\, CAE\, CRAE\n\nCEO\, Vancouver Island Real Estate Board\n\n\n\nAbout our Speaker: Jason Yochim is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board. Prior to this\, Jason was hired to launch the Saskatchewan REALTORS  Association (SRA) in 2020. The SRA was a successful amalgamation of the remaining REALTOR  Associations in the province of Saskatchewan. Jason has also served as CEO of the Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS  and the Saskatoon and Region Home Builders. In January of 2022\, Jason and his wife Lynn came to Vancouver Island from Saskatchewan. He brings to Nanaimo over 30 years? experience in various levels of the real estate and housing sectors. His background in housing includes experience in construction and development of residential and commercial property. An avid reader and firm believer in ongoing personal development\, Jason has earned the designation of Certified Association Executive and Canadian REALTOR  Association Executive. Jason currently serves as a director on the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce and previously as a Director of the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce\, including a term as Board Chair in 2016-17. \n\n\n\nWhy attend: Join Jason as he shares an insightful look into VIREB. Learn about what VIREB is\, its rich history\, and the important work it does in the real estate sector. Jason will also provide valuable market insights and expectations\, offering an informative perspective on the current real estate landscape.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div style="text-align: center\; margin-left: 40px\;">&nbsp\;</div>\n\n<h1><span style="font-weight: 700\; text-align: center\;">Presented by Vancouver Island Real Estate Board</span><br />\n<br />\n<img alt="" height="500" src="https://chambermaster.blob.core.windows.net/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/1345/Image/Info_Services/2025_Luncheons/March/March-7.png" style="width: 500px\; height: 500px\;" width="500" /></h1>\n\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p><span style="font-size:20px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;"><strong style="font-size: 20px\;">About VIREB:&nbsp\;</strong><br />\nThe Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB) is a not-for-profit\, member-based association with over 1\,000 REALTORS&reg\; who live and work in communities from the top of the Malahat to the northern tip of Vancouver Island. The board advances and promotes the interests of those engaged in the business of real estate. We represent our members? and the public?s concerns on issues involving legislation and the vitality of our communities at all levels of government.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><br />\n<font face="arial"><span style="font-size: 20px\; width: 200px\; height: 158px\;"><img alt="" height="300" src="https://chambermaster.blob.core.windows.net/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/1345/Image/Info_Services/2025_Luncheons/March/JasonYochim.jpg" style="width: 300px\; height: 300px\;" width="300" /></span></font><br />\n&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<h1><span style="font-size:20px\;"><strong><span style="font-family:arial\;"><span style="border: 0px\; font-stretch: inherit\; line-height: inherit\; font-size-adjust: inherit\; font-kerning: inherit\; font-variant-alternates: inherit\; font-variant-ligatures: inherit\; font-variant-numeric: inherit\; font-variant-east-asian: inherit\; font-variant-position: inherit\; font-feature-settings: inherit\; font-optical-sizing: inherit\; font-variation-settings: inherit\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; vertical-align: baseline\; color: black\;">JASON YOCHIM\, CAE\, CRAE<br />\nCEO\, Vancouver Island Real Estate Board</span></span></strong></span></h1>\n\n<p><br />\n<span style="font-size:20px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;"><b>About our Speaker:&nbsp\;</b><em><span class="TextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-CA" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; line-height: 25.3px\; font-variant-ligatures: none !important\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Jason </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Yochim </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">is currently serving as </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Chief </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Executive Officer of the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Vancouver Island Real Estate Board</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">. Prior to this\, Jason was hired to launch the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Saskatchewan</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> REALTORS&reg\;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> Association</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> (SRA)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> in 20</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">20</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">The SRA was a successful amalgamation of the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">remaining REALTOR&reg\; Associations in the province of Saskatchewan. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Jason has also served as CE</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">O</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> of the Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS&reg\; and the Saskatoon and Region Home Builders</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">n January of 2022</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">\, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Jason and his </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">wife</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> Lynn came to Vancouver Island from Saskatchewan</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">He brings to Nanaimo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> over 30 years? experience in various levels of the real estate and housing sectors. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">His background in housing includes experience in c</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">onstruction and development of re</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">sidential and commercial </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">property</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">An avid reader and firm believer in ongoing personal development\, Jason has earned the designation of Certified Association Executive and Canadian REALTOR&reg\; Association Executive. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Jason currently serves as a director on the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce and previously</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> as a Director</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> of the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">\,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">including a term as</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Board </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">Chair </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">in 2016-17</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW198484430 BCX4" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW198484430 BCX4" data-ccp-props="{" style="-webkit-user-drag: none\; margin: 0px\; padding: 0px\; -webkit-user-select: text\; line-height: 25.3px\; -webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important\;">&nbsp\;</span></em></span></span></p>\n\n<p><br />\n<span style="font-size:20px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;"><strong>Why attend: </strong>J<span style="caret-color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">oin Jason as he shares an insightful look into VIREB. Learn about what VIREB is\, its rich history\, and the important work it does in the real estate sector. Jason will also provide valuable market insights and expectations\, offering an informative perspective on the current real estate landscape.&nbsp\;</span></span></span></p>\n\n<hr />
LOCATION:Nanaimo Golf Club 2800 Highland Blvd\, Nanaimo
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