Canadian real estate leaders land spots on 2026 Swanepoel Power 200

Canadian real estate leaders again had a strong showing in the latest Swanepoel Power 200 (SP 200) list.

Since 2014, research and consulting firm T3 Sixty has analyzed and ranked North America’s 200 most influential and powerful leaders in the residential real estate brokerage industry. Canada has historically had a presence on the list. 

The latest ranking, released Wednesday, includes nine Canadian leaders, including C-suite executives, tech innovators and the heads of  some influential boards and associations. 

Who made the cut

#20 – Phil Soper, president and CEO, Royal LePage

#37 – Errol Samuelson, chief industry development officer, Zillow Group

#48 – John DiMichele, CEO, Toronto Regional Real Estate Board

#50 – Martin Charlwood, president and CEO, Century 21 Canada

#77 – Don Kottick, president, Remax Canada

#90 – Brant Morwald, president, Constellation Real Estate Group

#101 – Valerie Paquin, chair, Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)

#128 – Tara Brown, CEO, Peerage Realty Partners

#160 – Janice Myers, CEO, CREA

How candidates are ranked 

A set of detailed criteria is applied to hundreds of executives. Then T3 Sixty leadership debates and ranks them into a final list of the industry’s most powerful people.

The team uses four criteria weighted equally:

• Recent achievements and projected near-term impact on the industry
• The scale and power of an executive’s organization and their role within it
• Influence and reputation among industry peers
• Relative standing within their industry segment

On its website, T3 Sixty confirms the list is “never pay to play.”

The firm recognizes that power is an “elusive” concept, and ranking these individuals is as much of an art as a science.

“Some people have entrepreneurial power, some have financial strength, some hold high office, some have personal power, some have positional power, while others have political clout. Some are innovators, some executives, some doers, some dealmakers,” it says. “T3 Sixty considers all these facets of power, as they relate to each leader individually and to their peers, and comes up with what we feel is the industry’s most accurate annual reflection of individual power.”

See the full 2026 list here.

Editor’s note: This story was corrected to include Janice Myers and Valerie Paquin on the list.