Lethbridge’s Kristie Kruger to chair Alberta Real Estate Association

This will be Kruger’s fourth year as a member of the AREA board, but her first as its chair.

She has been on the Lethbridge and District Association of Realtors since 2016 and was the president of the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce in 2018-2019.

AREA is responsible for helping to train realtors, give information and resources to those looking to make a real estate transaction, and to advocate the provincial and federal governments for reform.

Kruger was in attendance for last week’s Government Liason Days in Edmonton.

It was a training and networking opportunity for realtors and a chance to speak to members of the province about a few key issues, which includes wanting to create a Made In Alberta solution to the mortgage stress test.

“It will help the federal government understand that real estate is local, it’s regional, and so that stress test they put into place is effecting markets [where it is not] necessarily doing everything that they had set out for it to do. In a good chunk of Alberta, we’ve seen really negative effects.”

Kruger says this year’s meeting was especially important as it was her first opportunity to speak with MLAs and ministers in the United Conservative Party since they got elected, so it was also a chance for her to learn what this administration’s priorities are when it comes to real estate.

She praised the UCP for not introducing a land transfer tax, which she believes would have “crippled” certain markets in Alberta.

AREA represents 10,600 members across the province.

by David Opinko

Lethbridge’s Kristie Kruger to chair Alberta Real Estate Association

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