A real estate broker has lost his case against the Toronto Real Estate Board, leaving the board — temporarily at least — with its stranglehold on resale listings. As reported in The Globe and Mail, Fraser Beach (and by extension BCE Inc.’s short-lived realestateplus.ca) broke the club rules in 2007 when they downloaded MLS listings and republished them online. However, the Ontario Superior Court judge was clear that his decision does not address whether the MLS rules breach Canadian competition laws. A decision on that issue may yet, after all these years, be forthcoming from the federal competition bureau if it can’t reach an agreement with the Canadian Real Estate Association.