Local RE/MAX Franchise Linked to Israeli Land Sales and Island Gentrification
community · Denman Island
The Denman Island RE/MAX franchise owner is noted as a major player in local real estate gentrification, while the parent corporation is involved in real estate sales in Israeli settler-occupied territories, raising concerns about complicity in colonial land issues.
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Sources
- “the corporate franchise’s Denman-based owner/realtor, Bente Pilgaard, is a major player in the real estate industry’s increasingly ramped-up gentrification of the island... the RE/MAX corporation is up to its neck in monetizing the original theft of Indigenous land both in BC and internationally in Israel and beyond.” — The Islands Grapevine – January 4th, 2024 (January 4th, 2024)
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