Jacob Coopersmith is the MLS® Statistics Co-ordinator at the Canadian Real Estate Association and is a contributing member of the economics team. Jacob originally worked for the Canadian Real Estate Association as a summer student and then again after graduating college back in the late 1990s and early 2000. After spending the better part of two decades working on trade desks for major financial institutions, he returned to CREA in December 2019. Jacob’s passion in life is scuba diving. He’s an open water scuba instructor and travels a few times a year to explore the best wrecks and reefs the world has to offer.