Ursula Morel is new president of FIABCI Canada

Ursula Morel with FIABCI-IREF Canada secretary-general Jerry England

Ursula Morel, a Realtor with Sea to Sky Premier Properties affiliated with Christie’s Great Estates in Whistler, B.C., became the 2010 president of the Canadian Chapter of the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) at its Annual General Meeting in Victoria recently. She holds Trans-National Referral Certification and is a Certified International Properties Specialist.

Morel specializes in luxury resort and second home property marketing and is a member of the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. Morel, who is fluent in French and German, has been a chapter director since 2006 and at the international level has attended numerous conferences world-wide.

Morel says she is looking forward to sharing the FIABCI mission statement of providing real estate professionals throughout the world with an effective means of communication, to enable them to share their knowledge with each other and the international community in order to provide society with the optimal solution to its property needs.

Secretary-general Jerry England says he is “encouraged by Ursula’s determination and enthusiasm and I know that she will be a driving force in the new initiatives to effectively bring social networking and referral making to the forefront of membership benefits.”

FIABCI is a business organization of real estate professionals in 65 countries and holds special “consultative” status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations Organization.