press release - Collège de l`immobilier

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PRESS RELEASE
12th Excellence Evening of the Fondation of the Collège de l’immobilier du Québec
$13,000 IN EXCELLENCE AWARDS HANDED OUT TO TOP GRADUATES OF
THE COLLÈGE DE L’IMMOBILIER DU QUÉBEC
(NUNS’ ISLAND, June 15, 2015) – The 12th edition of the Evening of Excellence Awards was
held on June 3rd at the Rialto Theater in Montréal. The Fondation of the Collège de l’immobilier
du Québec awarded a total of $13,000 to 13 full-time students who obtained the best
cumulative averages within their respective programs in 2014.
The Fondation of the Collège de l’immobilier du Québec also took advantage of one of the
grant recipient’s presence, Ms Mélanie Turgeon, motivation speaker, international athlete and
residential real estate broker, to present her conference “From Preparation to Action!”.
She shared with the audience ups and downs of her success story and offered practical step
by step advice to reach its goals from conception to completion.
The Fondation of the Collège de l’immobilier’s Evening of Excellence is the most important
event to recognize real estate education in Québec.
The brokers honoured at this event come from or work in the Montréal, Laval, Laurentians,
South Shore, Eastern Townships, Centre-du-Québec and Québec. They studied at the
Collège de l’immobilier du Québec in 2014, either in classroom or in virtual classrooms, in
English or in French.
Since the launch of the Foundation in 2003, more than $235,000 has been distributed in
excellence awards to the best performing students and in scholarships.
The Collège, its Foundation and their partners congratulate the winners of this 12th annual
Evening of Excellence and re-emphasize their commitment to the development of Quebec’s
commercial real estate, residential real estate and mortgage brokerage professionals.
List of the 13 Excellence Scholarship Winners:
Excellence Scholarships – Residential Real Estate Broker Program
ROYAL LEPAGE excellence scholarship
Mélanie Turgeon, residential real estate broker, Royal LePage Mont-Tremblant
(Mont-Tremblant)
NATIONAL BANK excellence scholarship
Marc-Antoine Lachance (Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval)
QFREB excellence scholarship
Marie-Nathalie Charles (Laval)
DESJARDINS excellence scholarship
Rebecca Jarry-Frédette, residential real estate broker, Via Capitale Centre du Québec
(Drummondville)
FCT excellence scholarship
Michel Jean-Pierre, residential real estate broker, Groupe Sutton sur l’Île Inc.
(Île-des-Sœurs)
CMHC excellence scholarship
Christine Geffroy-Jones, residential real estate broker, HP et Associés Inc. (Montréal)
VIA CAPITALE excellence scholarship
Valérie Suissa, residential real estate broker, Les Immeubles Imagine Inc. (Montréal-Ouest)
MCAP excellence scholarship
Marjorie Désormiers, residential real estate broker, RE/MAX Imagine Inc. (Longueuil)
FONDATION OF THE COLLÈGE DE L’IMMOBILIER DU QUÉBEC excellence scholarship
Katherine Gaucher, residential real estate broker, RE/MAX Professionnel Inc. (Granby)
Excellence Scholarship – Commercial Real Estate Broker Program
ROYAL LEPAGE excellence scholarship
Charles-Henri Cousineau, commercial real estate broker, Espaces à Louer Inc.
(Greenfield Park)
KPMG excellence scholarship
Jasmine Zou, commercial real estate broker, Groupe Sutton-Expert (Kirkland)
Excellence Scholarship – Mortgage Broker Program
MULTI-PRÊTS HYPOTHÈQUES excellence scholarship
Brigitte Gariépy (Saint-Jérôme)
GENWORTH CANADA excellence scholarship
Eric Tardiff, mortgage broker, Planiprêt (Saint-Eustache)
This Excellence Program, unique in the Québec real estate industry, is made possible thanks
to the support of our partners:
Major Associate:
Royal LePage.
Collaborators:
Desjardins Mortgage Financial Services, FCT Title Insurance, Genworth Canada, KPMG,
MCAP, Multi-Prêts Hypothèques, National Bank, Quebec Federation of Real Estate
Boards (QFREB), The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Via Capitale.
About the Collège de l’immobilier du Québec
Founded in 1993 and holding a permit from the ministère de l’Éducation, de l’Enseignement
supérieur et de la Recherche, the Collège de l’immobilier du Québec is the largest real estate
college in Québec. For over the past 20 years, it has welcomed future residential real estate,
commercial real estate and mortgage brokerage professionals and has also offered
continuing education training. Recognized for its high standards of training and the
exceptional expertise of its teaching personnel, the Collège is widely considered to be leader
in its field. In addition, all the Collège’s basic training programs are recognized by the
Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec (OACIQ).
-30Information:
Sylvie Lavigueur
General Manager
Collège de l’immobilier du Québec
514 762-1862, ext. 114
www.collegeimmobilier.com