{"id":876839,"date":"2026-08-30T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876839\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:00:12","slug":"nl-real-estate-association-applauding-creation-of-new-red-tape-reduction-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876839\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Real Estate Association Applauding Creation of New Red Tape Reduction Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bill-Stirling.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NL Real Estate Association Applauding Creation of New Red Tape Reduction Portfolio\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Association of Realtors CEO Bill Stirling; File photo)<\/p>\n<p>The Newfoundland and Labrador Real Estate Association is applauding the creation of a new ministerial red tape reduction portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Parrott has been named as the province\u2019s minister responsible for red tape reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Association President Bill Stirling says while the onus lies on all levels of government, he hopes the new office will work closely with municipalities to help speed up development permits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere may be something that can be done within the red tape reduction to help free up municipalities to be more responsive and more efficient in dealing with some of these applications.\u201d said Stirling, \u201cEvery time there\u2019s a zoning change within a municipality, that has to go to the province to be approved. And we\u2019ve heard timelines of weeks, months, years for some of these zoning changes to be approved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Association of Realtors CEO Bill Stirling; File photo) The Newfoundland and Labrador Real Estate Association is applauding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-876839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}